Men and trucks gathered on a muddy commercial street after a devastating flood, La Crescenta-Montrose, 1934
Item Overview
- Title
- Men and trucks gathered on a muddy commercial street after a devastating flood, La Crescenta-Montrose, 1934
- Date Created
- 1934
- Date
- 1934
- Publisher
- Los Angeles Times
- Language
- No linguistic content
- Collection
- Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Notes
- Description
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View of men and trucks gathered on a muddy commercial street after a devastating flood (in either January or October). Two men on the right are in uniform, 2 men in the middle-ground shovel mud into a dump truck, and others are working behind them. Boulders are gathered at the side of the road on the left. Signs on commercial buildings read "Crescenta-Cañada National Bank," "Inter-Valley Building & Loan Association," and "Evans Garage."
In November 1933, wildfires raged through the San Gabriel Mountains above the Crescenta Valley. Two floods followed the next year. In late December, a series of storms dropped 12 inches of rain. On New Year's Eve, heavy rains led to sporadic flooding. Around midnight, mountain hillsides collapsed sending millions of tons of mud into the Crescenta Valley neighborhoods below. More than 400 homes were destroyed in La Cañada, La Crescenta, Montrose and Tujunga. Scores of people were killed, and hundreds were left homeless. Another rainstorm on October 17 caused additional flooding and damage, but no deaths and damage, but no deaths.
Physical Description
- Extent
- 1 photograph
- Medium
- b&w nitrate negative
Keywords
- Genre
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news photographs
cellulose nitrate film - Location
- La Crescenta-Montrose (Calif.)
- Resource type
- still image
- Subjects
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Flood damage--California--La Crescenta-Montrose
Disaster relief--California--La Crescenta-Montrose
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- Repository
- University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
- Local Identifier
- uclamss_1429_2439
- ARK
- ark:/21198/zz002ddf2r
- 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 .