Stilt-walker on rainstorm-flooded street, Compton, 1927
Item Overview
- Title
- Stilt-walker on rainstorm-flooded street, Compton, 1927
- Date Created
- February 1927
- Date
- 1927-02
- Publisher
- Los Angeles Times
- Language
- No linguistic content
- Collection
- Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Notes
- Description
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Security Trust and Savings Bank
View of a man walking on stilts on a street flooded by a torrential rainstorm in front of the Security Trust and Savings Bank. Another man is on the sidewalk and 3 men are standing in front of the bank. Wooden planks provide a makeshift bridge from the street to the sidewalk on the left. In the middle of the street a placard reads "SLOW." - Caption
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Text from negative sleeve: Floods, 1927. [handwritten:] ?
Handwritten on negative: Compton
Physical Description
- Extent
- 1 photograph
- Medium
- b&w nitrate negative
Keywords
- Genre
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cellulose nitrate film
news photographs - Location
- Compton (Calif.)
- Resource type
- still image
- Subjects
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Storms--California--Compton
Stilt-walkers--California--Compton
Floods--California--Compton
Banks--California--Compton
Find This Item
- Repository
- University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
- Local Identifier
- uclamss_1429_2375
- ARK
- ark:/21198/zz002ddbv6
- 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
- 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 .