American Legion Hall damaged by flood and mudslide, La Crescenta-Montrose, 1934
Item Overview
- Title
- American Legion Hall damaged by flood and mudslide, La Crescenta-Montrose, 1934
- Date Created
- January 1934
- Date
- 1934-01
- Publisher
- Los Angeles Daily News
- Language
- No linguistic content
- Collection
- Los Angeles Daily News Negatives
Notes
- Description
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In November 1933, wildfires raged through the San Gabriel Mountains above the Crescenta Valley. 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.
Bystanders at the American Legion Hall, damaged by flood and mudslide. Window panes are missing. A man is standing to the right of the building. The mudslide crashed into the back of the building and filled it with mud and rocks. The building was located at the intersection of Fairway Ave. and Rosemont Ave. - Caption
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Text from original nitrate sleeve: Flood- La Crescenta Highway, La Crescenta Bridge.
Handwritten annotation from nitrate negative: American Legion Hall - Montrose.
Physical Description
- Extent
- 1 photograph
- Medium
- b&w nitrate negative
Keywords
- Genre
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news photographs
cellulose nitrate film - Names
- American Legion. Post 288 (La Crescenta-Montrose, Calif..)
- Location
- La Crescenta-Montrose (Calif.)
- Longitude
- 34.21394
- Latitude
- -118.235195
- Resource type
- still image
- Subjects
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Landslides--California--La Crescenta-Montrose
Flood damage--California--La Crescenta-Montrose
Find This Item
- Repository
- University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
- ARK
- ark:/21198/zz002542fn
- 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 .