Children sleeping in dormitory after the failure of the Saint Francis Dam an flood that followed, Santa Clara River Valley (Calif.), 1928
Item Overview
- Title
- Children sleeping in dormitory after the failure of the Saint Francis Dam an flood that followed, Santa Clara River Valley (Calif.), 1928
- Date Created
- March 1928
- Date
- 1928-03
- Publisher
- Los Angeles Times
- Language
- No linguistic content
- Collection
- 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.
Five children in beds lined up against a wall in a dormitory after the flood caused by the failure of the Saint Francis Dam. A Red Cross volunteer stands next to one of the beds and pictures to occupy the children are lined up on the wall above the beds.
Physical Description
- Extent
- 1 photograph
- Medium
- b&w nitrate negative
Keywords
- Genre
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cellulose nitrate film
news photographs - Location
- Santa Clara River Valley (Calif.)
- Resource type
- still image
- Subjects
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Red Cross and Red Crescent--California--Santa Clara River Valley
Saint Francis Dam Failure, Calif., 1928
Disaster relief--California--Santa Clara River Valley
Clinics--California--Santa Clara River Valley
Dormitories--California--Santa Clara River Valley
Disaster victims--California--Santa Clara River Valley
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- Repository
- University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
- Local Identifier
- uclamss_1429_1957
- ARK
- ark:/21198/zz002dcvfs
- Manifest url
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 .