Center street bridge spanning the San Gabriel River swollen with rainstorm flooding, Los Angeles County, 1927

Title: Center street bridge spanning the San Gabriel River swollen with rainstorm flooding, Los Angeles County, 1927
Date Created: February 16, 1927
Date: 1927-02-16
Publisher: Los Angeles Times
Language: No linguistic content
Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description: View of the Center Street bridge with wooden railings and trusses spanning the Los Angeles River, swollen with flood water from a torrential rain storm. Onlookers are visible on the bridge.
A caption for a similar photograph taken at the same time reads: View from Center-street bridge over the San Gabriel. Note Sandbag levees erected to keep waters in channel (Times photo.) [Los Angeles Times, 17 Feb. 1927: A3].
Caption: Text from negative sleeve: Floods, L.A. River [identification is incorrect]

Genre: cellulose nitrate film
news photographs
Location: Los Angeles County (Calif.)
Resource type: still image
Subjects: Floods--California--Los Angeles County
San Gabriel River (Calif.)
Storms--California--Los Angeles County
Bridges--California--Los Angeles County
Rivers--California--Los Angeles County

Repository: University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
Local Identifier: uclamss_1429_2457
ARK: ark:/21198/zz002ddfp2
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Rights Country: US
Funding Note: Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.
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