Nighttime shot of debris from the Elysian Park landslide on Riverside Drive, Los Angeles, November 1937
Item Overview
- Title
- Nighttime shot of debris from the Elysian Park landslide on Riverside Drive, Los Angeles, November 1937
- Date Created
- November 1937
- Date
- 1937-11
- Publisher
- Los Angeles Daily News
- Language
- No linguistic content
- Collection
- Los Angeles Daily News Negatives
Notes
- Description
- Night shot of debris from the Elysian Park landslide on Riverside Drive. The landslide started near the top of Buena Vista Peak as a small crack in the earth. The crack began separating around November 15, 1937 at a rate of about half an inch every 24 hours, then became a meandering zig-zag, and finally a landslide on November 26, 1937. During the landslide 1,500,000 tons of loose rock and dirt tumbled down the hill and onto a 600 foot stretch of Riverside Drive. The disaster caused rerouting of traffic and attracted thousands of spectators. Because the initial crack was identified early, damage and injuries were largely avoided
- Caption
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Text from original nitrate sleeve: Elysian Park - Earth Slippage
Handwritten annotation from nitrate negative: Elysian Park Earth crack
Physical Description
- Extent
- 1 photograph
- Medium
- b&w nitrate negative
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- Repository
- University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
- ARK
- ark:/21198/zz0025gmjd
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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 .