Sign warns pedestrians and drivers of landslide danger near the Figueroa St. tunnel, Los Angeles, November 1937

Title: Sign warns pedestrians and drivers of landslide danger near the Figueroa St. tunnel, Los Angeles, November 1937
Date Created: November 1937
Publisher: Los Angeles Daily News
Language: No linguistic content
Collection: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description: Sign warns people to vacate the area due to landslide danger near the Figueroa St. tunnel. The landslide occurred in Elysian Park in November 1937. It began as a small crack on Buena Vista Peak and continued to widen until the landslide dumped millions of tons of loose rock and dirt down the slope and on to Riverside Drive.
Caption: Text from original nitrate sleeve: Elysian Park Earth Crack
Handwritten annotation from nitrate negative: Elysian Park Earth Crack - no Tunnel - Figueroa St.

Genre: news photographs
cellulose nitrate film
Subjects: Signs (Notices)
Landslides--California--Los Angeles
Danger
Tunnels--California--Los Angeles
Environment
Parks--California--Los Angeles
Location: Los Angeles (Calif.)
Resource type: still image

Repository: University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
Local identifier: uclamss_1387_16081-01
ARK: ark:/21198/zz0025gkz4
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