Area next to the base of the remaining center portion of the Saint Francis Dam after its disastruos collapse, San Francisquito Canyon (Calif.), 1928

Title: Area next to the base of the remaining center portion of the Saint Francis Dam after its disastruos collapse, San Francisquito Canyon (Calif.), 1928
Date Created: [March 1928]
Date: 1928-03
Language: No linguistic content
Collection: Harry French Blaney Papers, 1919-1970

Description: 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.
Caption: Text from negative sleeve: St. Francis Dam. 3-18-28.

Genre: Black-and-white photographs
cellulose nitrate film
Location: San Francisquito Canyon (Calif.)
Longitude: 34.546944
Latitude: -118.5125
Resource type: still image
Subjects: Saint Francis Dam Failure, Calif., 1928
Dam failures--California--San Francisquito Canyon
Saint Francis Dam (Calif.)

Repository: University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
ARK: ark:/21198/zz002jk89v
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Funding Note: Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.