Destruction due to flooding from Saint Francis Dam failure at San Francisquito (Calif.), 1928
Item Overview
- Title
- Destruction due to flooding from Saint Francis Dam failure at San Francisquito (Calif.), 1928
- Date Created
- March 1928
- Date
- 1928-03
- Publisher
- Los Angeles Times
- Language
- No linguistic content
- Collection
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OpenUCLA Collections
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Notes
- Description
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The St. Francis Dam was a 200-foot high concrete gravity-arch dam built between 1924 and 1926 in St. Francisquito Canyon (near present-day Castaic and Santa Clarita). The dam collapsed on March 12, 1928 at two and a half minutes before midnight. The resulting flood killed more than 600 residents plus an unknown number of itinerant farm workers camped in San Francisquito Canyon, making it the 2nd greatest loss of life in California after the 1906 San Francisco earthquake. It is considered the worst American civil engineering failure in the 20th century.
Destruction from flood near telephone pole. Fallen tree branches can be seen in the shot. - Caption
- Text from negative sleeve: Saint Francis Dam
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
- Local Identifier
- uclamss_1429_1942
- ARK
- ark:/21198/zz002dctxj
- 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
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Access to this collection is generously supported by Haynes Foundation funds.
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 .