Rain-flooded commercial street, Compton, 1927
Item Overview
- Title
- Rain-flooded commercial street, Compton, 1927
- Photographer
- Watson, George R., 1892-1977
- Date Created
- February 15, 1927
- Date
- 1927-02-15
- Publisher
- Los Angeles Times
- Language
- No linguistic content
- Collection
- Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Notes
- Description
- View of a rain-flooded commercial street. One commercial sign reads "Star Cafe." The water in the street is nearly as high as the curb.
- Caption
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Text from negative sleeve: Floods, 1927. [handwritten:] ?
Text from newspaper caption: J. Pluvius Has Field Day With Los Angeles Traffic and Business. Little business was done along the main street at Compton yesterday. Channel swimmers might have shopped comfortably. (Photos by George R. Watson, Times Staff Photographer) [Los Angeles Times, 16 Feb. 1927: 8].
Physical Description
- Extent
- 1 photograph
- Medium
- b&w nitrate negative
Keywords
- Genre
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cellulose nitrate film
news photographs - Location
- Compton (Calif.)
- Resource type
- still image
- Subjects
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Storms--California--Compton
Floods--California--Compton
Find This Item
- Repository
- University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
- Local Identifier
- uclamss_1429_2391
- ARK
- ark:/21198/zz002ddcdz
- 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
-
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License .