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Description:: Children transport suitcases on a wooden raft across flood waters in Long Beach, California.
Date:: 1930s
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Heavy run-off from rains in the Lopez Canyon area north of Altadena, CA leave Altadena's flood basins full. Circa February 15, 1936.
Date:: [circa February 15, 1936
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Fallen tree lands on Roosevelt Highway (Pacific Coast Highway) after a landslide occurs in Topanga Canyon.
Date:: 1930s
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Aerial view of rushing flood waters destroying homes in North Hollywood. The Los Angeles flood of 1938 was a major flooding event that affected much of Los Angeles, Orange County, and Riverside County. The flood was responsible for destroying 5,601 homes, damaging 1,500 homes, and killing approximately 110 people.
Date:: March 1938
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: The Los Angeles flood of 1938 was a major flooding event that affected much of Los Angeles, Orange County, and Riverside County. The flood was responsible for destroying 5,601 homes, damaging 1,500 homes, and killing approximately 110 people.
Date:: March 1938
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Cars cross flood waters on 7th and Wall Street in Los Angeles. Businesses pictured in background.
Date:: 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Construction vehicles work near a rocky flood water channel. A building appears next to the channel.
Date:: between December 13-14, 1934
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Two boys play with a toy sailboat at 57th and 10th avenue, which was flooded after disastrous storms in January of 1940. The heavy rainstorms halted traffic and caused highway and bridge damage. At least three died and many were treated for injuries
Date:: between January 8 and January 10, 1940
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Men use sandbags to protect a waterfront structure from heavy seas at Redondo Beach. In January 1940 the southern stretch of Santa Monica Bay was battered by 25-foot waves, caused by a combination of heavy rain and a mysterious sea disturbance allegedly caused by a submarine. Waves caused damage to shorefront property and at least one person was reported injured.
Date:: January 1940
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Damage after near-tornado level winds and rain strike Alhambra and neighboring communities of Long Beach and Torrance. Damage in Alhambra extended from City Park to Alhambra Road and Raymond avenue in the northeast, and to Poplar street and Freemont avenue in the southwest. February 13, 1936.
Date:: February 13, 1936
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

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