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Nine men gathered around a tree in the path of the flood that resulted from the failure of the Saint Francis Dam, Santa Clara River Valley (Calif.), 1928

Description:
The St. Francis Dam was a 200-foot high concrete gravity-arch dam built between 1924 and 1926 in St. Francisquito Canyon (near present-day Castaic and Santa Clarita). The dam collapsed on March 12, 1928 at two and a half minutes before midnight. The resulting flood killed more than 600 residents plus an unknown number of itinerant farm workers camped in San Francisquito Canyon, making it the 2nd greatest loss of life in California after the 1906 San Francisco earthquake. It is considered the worst American civil engineering failure in the 20th century.
Date:
March 1928
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Nine men gathered around a tree in the path of the flood that resulted from the failure of the Saint Francis Dam, Santa Clara River Valley (Calif.), 1928

Roadside area deeply eroded by the flood that followed the failure of the Saint Francis Dam, Santa Clara River Valley (Calif.), 1928

Description:
The St. Francis Dam was a 200-foot high concrete gravity-arch dam built between 1924 and 1926 in St. Francisquito Canyon (near present-day Castaic and Santa Clarita). The dam collapsed on March 12, 1928 at two and a half minutes before midnight. The resulting flood killed more than 600 residents plus an unknown number of itinerant farm workers camped in San Francisquito Canyon, making it the 2nd greatest loss of life in California after the 1906 San Francisco earthquake. It is considered the worst American civil engineering failure in the 20th century.
Date:
March 1928
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Roadside area deeply eroded by the flood that followed the failure of the Saint Francis Dam, Santa Clara River Valley (Calif.), 1928

Damaged piano in a orchard (?) following the flood caused by the failure of the Saint Francis Dam, Santa Clara River Valley (Calif.), 1928

Description:
The St. Francis Dam was a 200-foot high concrete gravity-arch dam built between 1924 and 1926 in St. Francisquito Canyon (near present-day Castaic and Santa Clarita). The dam collapsed on March 12, 1928 at two and a half minutes before midnight. The resulting flood killed more than 600 residents plus an unknown number of itinerant farm workers camped in San Francisquito Canyon, making it the 2nd greatest loss of life in California after the 1906 San Francisco earthquake. It is considered the worst American civil engineering failure in the 20th century.
Date:
March 1928
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Damaged piano in a orchard (?) following the flood caused by the failure of the Saint Francis Dam, Santa Clara River Valley (Calif.), 1928

Flooded Santa Clara River following the failure of the Saint Francis Dam, Santa Clara River Valley (Calif.), 1928

Description:
The St. Francis Dam was a 200-foot high concrete gravity-arch dam built between 1924 and 1926 in St. Francisquito Canyon (near present-day Castaic and Santa Clarita). The dam collapsed on March 12, 1928 at two and a half minutes before midnight. The resulting flood killed more than 600 residents plus an unknown number of itinerant farm workers camped in San Francisquito Canyon, making it the 2nd greatest loss of life in California after the 1906 San Francisco earthquake. It is considered the worst American civil engineering failure in the 20th century.
Date:
March 1928
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Flooded Santa Clara River following the failure of the Saint Francis Dam, Santa Clara River Valley (Calif.), 1928

Building wreckage within matted tree debris left by the flood that followed the ruin of the Saint Francis Dam, Santa Clara River Valley (Calif.), 1928

Description:
The St. Francis Dam was a 200-foot high concrete gravity-arch dam built between 1924 and 1926 in St. Francisquito Canyon (near present-day Castaic and Santa Clarita). The dam collapsed on March 12, 1928 at two and a half minutes before midnight. The resulting flood killed more than 600 residents plus an unknown number of itinerant farm workers camped in San Francisquito Canyon, making it the 2nd greatest loss of life in California after the 1906 San Francisco earthquake. It is considered the worst American civil engineering failure in the 20th century.
Date:
March 1928
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Building wreckage within matted tree debris left by the flood that followed the ruin of the Saint Francis Dam, Santa Clara River Valley (Calif.), 1928

Roadway littered with debris deposited by the flood that followed the failure of the Saint Francis Dam, Santa Clara River Valley (Calif.), 1928

Description:
Roadway littered with the debris of uprooted trees deposited by the flood that followed the failure of the Saint Francis Dam. Mounds of tree debris are wrapped around the base of each utility pole. In the background a storage tank bears a sign reading "General Gasoline."
Date:
March 1928
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Roadway littered with debris deposited by the flood that followed the failure of the Saint Francis Dam, Santa Clara River Valley (Calif.), 1928

Main Highway Bridge at Castaic Junction destroyed by the flood following the failure of the Saint Francis Dam, Castaic vicinity (Calif.), 1928

Description:
The St. Francis Dam was a 200-foot high concrete gravity-arch dam built between 1924 and 1926 in St. Francisquito Canyon (near present-day Castaic and Santa Clarita). The dam collapsed on March 12, 1928 at two and a half minutes before midnight. The resulting flood killed more than 600 residents plus an unknown number of itinerant farm workers camped in San Francisquito Canyon, making it the 2nd greatest loss of life in California after the 1906 San Francisco earthquake. It is considered the worst American civil engineering failure in the 20th century.
Date:
March 13, 1928
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Main Highway Bridge at Castaic Junction destroyed by the flood following the failure of the Saint Francis Dam, Castaic vicinity (Calif.), 1928