Subject: Floods--California--Los Angeles County / Location: Los Angeles County (Calif.) / Repository: University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

Description:: View of the Los Angeles River and steep earthen bank during rainstorm flooding
Date:: February 1927
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: View of a commercial street flooded, possibly by the Los Angeles River, during or after a heavy rainstorm. Three men are raising the level of a tarp-covered truck with a wooden beam used as a lever in the middle of the street. Another truck with 2 kerosene lamps perched on it is on the right and sections of large pipe are on the side of the street on the far right. A pile of dirt is behind the truck. Signs on and around the commercial buildings read "United States Tires, Sales & Service Depot, Lloyds Service Station," "Quaker State Motor Oil," "Gilmore Gasoline," "Sanitary Kitchen, C. Soper..,...Ice Cream," "Radio Shop, Hardware," and "S. C. Weaver Const. Co."
Date:: February 1927
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: View of an automobile driving down a flooded commercial street during rainstorm. A sign on a commercial building reads "Fox Bros, Free Delivery, 4030, 4032."
Date:: 1926
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: View down a commercial street flooded during or after a rainstorm. Automobiles are on the street and a commercial sign reads "Mesa Dry Goods."
Date:: February 1927
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: View of a man watching overflowing manhole on an urban street during a heavy rainstorm. Two billboards are in the background with advertisements for Iris Coffee and MJB Coffee.
Date:: 1933
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Policeman carrying woman across commercial street flooded by rainstorm. The water is up to his knees.
Date:: 1926
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: View of the Los Angeles River during rainstorm flooding. A fence is visible on the left and a bridge, possibly, is in the background.
Date:: February 1927
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: View of the Center Street bridge with wooden railings and trusses spanning the Los Angeles River, swollen with flood water from a torrential rain storm. Onlookers are visible on the bridge.
Date:: February 16, 1927
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: Photograph of 3 automobiles on a storm-flooded commercial street. Signs on the buildings read "Vacuum Cleaners Repairing," California Mattress & Feather Co.," "Hexin...," "Gilford Apartments," and "Laundry."
Date:: 1933
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: View of a rain-flooded city street with houses, a grocery store, an automobile in the street and one pedestrian with an umbrella on the right.
Date:: 1933
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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