Residential homes ravaged by flooding, Upland, 1936

Item Overview

Title

Residential homes ravaged by flooding, Upland, 1936

Date Created

February 1936

Date

1936-02

Publisher

Los Angeles Times

Language

No linguistic content

Collection

Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Notes

Description

In the foreground of two houses the area is covered by mud, rocks, and fallen tree limbs.
Photograph appears with the headline, "High Wind and Torrential Rain Leave Trail of Damage in Southland Towns," Los Angeles Times, 13 Feb 1936: 8/

Caption

Text from negative sleeve: 3667 - Floods at Upland 2-12 - 36 [stamped:] Feb 14 1936
Text from newspaper caption: FLOOD WATERS FROM FOOTHILLS SWEEP DOWN THROUGH TOWN OF UPLAND Waters from the prolonged and torrential rains crept down the sides of the foothills yesterday and turned the streets in the town of Upland into running rivers, filled them with silt curb deep, washed out pavements and cut gullies through the town. This picture shows a view of Twenty-fourth street at full flood tide with the Sprague home in the background. Many of the residents fled from their homes in the fear that they would be washed away by the mad torrents pouring from the hills.
Handwritten on negative: Floods Upland 2 - 12 - 36

Physical Description

Extent

1 photograph

Medium

b&w nitrate negative

Keywords

Genre

cellulose nitrate film
news photographs

Location

Upland (Calif.)

Resource type

still image

Subjects

Mud--California--Upland
Houses--California--Upland
Floods--California--Upland