Ramsdell Avenue after flood, La Crescenta-Montrose, 1934
Item Overview
- Title
- Ramsdell Avenue after flood, La Crescenta-Montrose, 1934
- Date Created
- January 1934
- Date
- 1934-01
- Publisher
- Los Angeles Daily News
- Language
- No linguistic content
- Collection
- Los Angeles Daily News Negatives
Notes
- Description
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In November 1933, wildfires raged through the San Gabriel Mountains above the Crescenta Valley. In late December, a series of storms dropped 12 inches of rain. On New Year's Eve, heavy rains led to sporadic flooding. Around midnight, mountain hillsides collapsed sending millions of tons of mud into the Crescenta Valley neighborhoods below. More than 400 homes were destroyed in La Cañada, La Crescenta, Montrose and Tujunga. Scores of people were killed, and hundreds were left homeless.
Ramsdell Avenue lined with sandbags after flood disaster in 1934. Pole on street designates the location as Ramsdell Avenue. - Caption
- Text from original nitrate sleeve: Disasters -- Floods; Dec. 13-14 1934.
Physical Description
- Extent
- 1 photograph
- Medium
- b&w nitrate negative
Keywords
- Genre
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news photographs
cellulose nitrate film - Location
- La Crescenta-Montrose (Calif.)
- Resource type
- still image
- Subjects
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Landslides--California--La Crescenta-Montrose
Flood damage--California--La Crescenta-Montrose
Find This Item
- Repository
- University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
- ARK
- ark:/21198/zz002549tq
- Manifest url
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Access Condition
- Rights statement
- copyrighted
- Rights Holder
- UCLA Charles E. Young Research Library Department of Special Collections, A1713 Young Research Library, Box 951575, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575. E-mail: spec-coll@library.ucla.edu. Phone: (310)825-4988
- Rights Country
- US
- Funding Note
- Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.
- License
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This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License .