Two boys play with a toy sailboat in a flooded street caused by heavy rainstorms, January 1940

Title: Two boys play with a toy sailboat in a flooded street caused by heavy rainstorms, January 1940
Date Created: between January 8 and January 10, 1940
Date: 1940-01-08/1940-01-11
Publisher: Los Angeles Daily News
Language: No linguistic content
Collection: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description: Two boys play with a toy sailboat at 57th and 10th avenue, which was flooded after disastrous storms in January of 1940. The heavy rainstorms halted traffic and caused highway and bridge damage. At least three died and many were treated for injuries
Caption: Handwritten annotation from nitrate negative: 57th & 10th Ave.
Text from original nitrate sleeve: Disasters - Floods - following Jan. 1940 storm; Bellona Creek; West 7th St.; Slauson and Sepulveda; Manchester and Vermont; Roosevelt Highway

Genre: news photographs
cellulose nitrate film
Location: Los Angeles (Calif.)
Resource type: still image
Subjects: Weather
Environment
Floods--California--Los Angeles
Model sailboats
Youth

Repository: University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
ARK: ark:/21198/zz0025gv53
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Rights Country: US
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