Men place sand bags in an area with storm runoff, La Crescenta-Montrose, 1934

Title: Men place sand bags in an area with storm runoff, La Crescenta-Montrose, 1934
Date Created: 1934
Date: 1934
Publisher: Los Angeles Times
Language: No linguistic content
Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description: 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 another storm had threatened to cause flooding and damage, but no deaths.
Men with shovels fill and line up sand bags in an area with storm runoff during one of three storm and flood events that year
Caption: Text from negative sleeve: Floods, Montrose

Genre: cellulose nitrate film
news photographs
Location: La Crescenta-Montrose (Calif.)
Resource type: still image
Subjects: Flood damage--California--La Crescenta-Montrose
Landslides--California--La Crescenta-Montrose

Repository: University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
Local Identifier: uclamss_1429_4632
ARK: ark:/21198/zz002cthbt
Manifest url

Rights statement: copyrighted
Rights contact: UCLA Library Special Collections, A1713 Charles E. Young Research Library, Box 951575, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575. Email: spec-coll@library.ucla.edu. Phone: (310) 825-4988
Rights Holder: The Regents of the University of California
Rights Country: US
Funding Note: Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.
License: This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License .