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Young orchard irrigated by a private well, Apple Valley, 1928

Description:: View of an young apple orchard in Apple Valley, which is located in the Mojave River Irrigation District.
Date:: September 1928
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Beckett, S. H. (Samuel Hume), 1883-1937
Collection:: Harry French Blaney Papers, 1919-1970

Young citrus trees interplanted with alfalfa, irrigated by over-head sprinkling, southern California, 1928

Date:: August 1930
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Beckett, S. H. (Samuel Hume), 1883-1937
Collection:: Harry French Blaney Papers, 1919-1970

Worker watches as a crane clears a pile of foliate debris deposited by the flood following the failure of the Saint Francis Dam, Bardsdale (probably), 1928

Description:: This photo was taken in the Santa Clara River Valley. The setting with palm trees and cranes is similar to other photos in this collections identified as Bardsdale.
Date:: [March 1928]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Harry French Blaney Papers, 1919-1970

Worker standing outside of the booster plant of the Provident Irrigation District of Sacramento River, Glenn County, 1928

Description:: View of a worker the booster pumping plant of the Provident Irrigation District of Sacramento River, a building constructed of corrugated metal.
Date:: July 1928
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Beckett, S. H. (Samuel Hume), 1883-1937
Collection:: Harry French Blaney Papers, 1919-1970

Woman wearing a lace evening gown and crown, circa 1930-1933

Description:: Woman wearing a lace evening gown ruffled cap sleeves and a peplum, long gloves and a crown, standing in front of a silk curtain.
Date:: [circa 1930-1933]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Adams (Peggy Hamilton) Papers

Woman modeling an evening gown of jacquard pattern silk, circa 1928-1933

Description:: This photograph may have been taken for Peggy Hamilton's Hamilton’s Los Angeles Times feature "Fashions"
Date:: [circa 1928-1933]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Adams (Peggy Hamilton) Papers

Woman modeling a lace evening gown and crown, circa 1928-1933

Description:: The photograph may have been taken at a society event, a fashion show or for Peggy Hamilton's Hamilton’s Los Angeles Times feature "Fashions"
Date:: [circa 1928-1933]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Adams (Peggy Hamilton) Papers

Woman in long skirt, [London?], 1932-1933

Description:: "Contact" (1933) is a documentary film by Paul Rotha. Made for Imperial Airways and sponsored by Shell-Mex and BP Ltd, "Contact" shows the construction of an airplane and how air travel is opening up the world. It was filmed in England and along air routes in the Middle East, Africa and Athens
Date:: [November 1932-January 1933]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Rotha (Paul) Papers, 1914-1980

Woman in long skirt, [London?], 1932-1933

Description:: Woman in dark blouse and long skirt or wide pants, holding purse and rolled blanket, standing on rocky area with house, wall, gate, and trees in background, during filming of Contact
Date:: [November 1932-January 1933]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Rotha (Paul) Papers, 1914-1980

Wings of a transport plane with tangled thorn bushes after a forced landing, Kigwe, Tanzania, 1932

Description:: "Contact" (1933) is a documentary film by Paul Rotha. Made for Imperial Airways and sponsored by Shell-Mex and BP Ltd, "Contact" shows the construction of an airplane and how air travel was opening up the world. It was filmed in England and along air routes in the Middle East, Africa and Athens.
Date:: December 31, 1932
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Rotha (Paul) Papers, 1914-1980

Wind damage on a Valencia orange tree at the Smily orchard, Santa Ana, 1937

Date:: January 23, 1937
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Compton, O. C. (Oliver Cecil), 1903-
Collection:: Harry French Blaney Papers, 1919-1970

Wind damage on a Valencia orange tree at the Smily orchard, Santa Ana, 1937

Date:: January 23, 1937
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Compton, O. C. (Oliver Cecil), 1903-
Collection:: Harry French Blaney Papers, 1919-1970

Wilted orange tree leaves following the freeze of January 1937 (18 1/2 degrees fahrenheit), at the Citrus Experiment Station, Riverside, 193

Description:: Photograph of wilted orange tree leaves of a branch, on a sheet of paper.
Date:: January 22, 1937
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Compton, O. C. (Oliver Cecil), 1903-
Collection:: Harry French Blaney Papers, 1919-1970

Wilted orange tree leaves following the freeze of January 22, 1937 (18 1/2 degrees fahrenheit), at the Citrus Experiment Station, Riverside, 1937

Description:: Photograph of two orange tree leaves on a sheet of paper.
Date:: January 22, 1937
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Compton, O. C. (Oliver Cecil), 1903-
Collection:: Harry French Blaney Papers, 1919-1970

Wilted orange tree leaves following the freeze of January 22, 1937 (18 1/2 degrees fahrenheit), at the Citrus Experiment Station, Riverside, 1937

Description:: Photograph of two orange tree leaves on a sheet of paper.
Date:: January 1937
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Compton, O. C. (Oliver Cecil), 1903-
Collection:: Harry French Blaney Papers, 1919-1970

Weir, Fort Sumner vicinity, 1940

Description:: Image identified in a letter (image ark no. 21198/zz002jk9vm)
Date:: [1940]
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Morgan, Arthur E. (Arthur Ernest), 1878-1975
Collection:: Harry French Blaney Papers, 1919-1970

Weir, Fort Sumner vicinity, 1940

Description:: Image identified in a letter (image ark no. 21198/zz002jk9vm)
Date:: [1940]
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Morgan, Arthur E. (Arthur Ernest), 1878-1975
Collection:: Harry French Blaney Papers, 1919-1970

Weir, Fort Sumner vicinity, 1940

Description:: Image identified in a letter (image ark no. 21198/zz002jk9vm)
Date:: [1940]
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Morgan, Arthur E. (Arthur Ernest), 1878-1975
Collection:: Harry French Blaney Papers, 1919-1970

Weir, Fort Sumner vicinity, 1940

Description:: Image identified in a letter (image ark no. 21198/zz002jk9vm)
Date:: [1940]
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Morgan, Arthur E. (Arthur Ernest), 1878-1975
Collection:: Harry French Blaney Papers, 1919-1970

Weir, Fort Sumner vicinity, 1940

Description:: Image identified in a letter (image ark no. 21198/zz002jk9vm)
Date:: [1940]
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Morgan, Arthur E. (Arthur Ernest), 1878-1975
Collection:: Harry French Blaney Papers, 1919-1970

Weighing lysimeter at the Citrus Experiment Station, Riverside, circa 1934

Description:: View of a weighing lysimeter on wheels, on a track with citrus tree tubs in between the tracks. A row of citrus trees in tubs between tracks is visible on the left as well.
Date:: [circa 1934]
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Beckett, S. H. (Samuel Hume), 1883-1937
Collection:: Harry French Blaney Papers, 1919-1970

Wall and towers, Karachi or Gwadar, 1932

Description:: "Contact" (1933) is a documentary film by Paul Rotha. Made for Imperial Airways and sponsored by Shell-Mex and BP Ltd, "Contact" shows the construction of an airplane and how air travel is opening up the world. It was filmed in England and along air routes in the Middle East, Africa and Athens
Date:: November 1932-December 1932
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Rotha (Paul) Papers, 1914-1980

Wall and tower, Karachi or Gwadar, 1932

Description:: Deteriorating wall and tower, possibly an ancient fort, with sandy area, shadow, and footprints in foreground, during filming of Contact
Date:: November 1932-December 1932
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Rotha (Paul) Papers, 1914-1980

Villagers gathered next to a transport plane after a forced landing, Kigwe, Tanzania, 1932

Description:: "Contact" (1933) is a documentary film by Paul Rotha. Made for Imperial Airways and sponsored by Shell-Mex and BP Ltd, "Contact" shows the construction of an airplane and how air travel was opening up the world. It was filmed in England and along air routes in the Middle East, Africa and Athens.
Date:: December 31, 1932
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Rotha (Paul) Papers, 1914-1980

Villagers gathered next to a transport plane after a forced landing, Kigwe, Tanzania, 1932

Description:: "Contact" (1933) is a documentary film by Paul Rotha. Made for Imperial Airways and sponsored by Shell-Mex and BP Ltd, "Contact" shows the construction of an airplane and how air travel was opening up the world. It was filmed in England and along air routes in the Middle East, Africa and Athens.
Date:: December 31, 1932
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Rotha (Paul) Papers, 1914-1980

Villagers gathered next to a transport plane after a forced landing, Kigwe, Tanzania, 1932

Description:: View of local people in Kigwe (near Dodoma, Tanzania) gathered next to the "City of Karachi" transport plane (a De Havilland DH.66 Hercules) following a forced landing during the filming of "Contact."
Date:: December 31, 1932
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Rotha (Paul) Papers, 1914-1980

Villagers gathered next to a transport plane after a forced landing, Kigwe, Tanzania, 1932

Description:: "Contact" (1933) is a documentary film by Paul Rotha. Made for Imperial Airways and sponsored by Shell-Mex and BP Ltd, "Contact" shows the construction of an airplane and how air travel was opening up the world. It was filmed in England and along air routes in the Middle East, Africa and Athens.
Date:: December 31, 1932
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Rotha (Paul) Papers, 1914-1980

View towards the domes and minarets of Al Kadhimain Mosque taken during the filming of Contact, Baghdad, 1932

Description:: View across brick walls and roof tops towards minarets and two domes of Al Kadhimain Mosque. the tops of palm trees are visible as well.
Date:: November 1932-December 1932
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Rotha, Paul, 1907-1984
Collection:: Rotha (Paul) Papers, 1914-1980

View of Tiberias taken during the filming of Contact, 1932

Description:: View of Tiberias from the Hotel Tiberias with the Zidani Mosque (or Al-Amari Mosque) in the foreground and with the Sea of Galilee in the distance.
Date:: November 1932-December 1932
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Rotha (Paul) Papers, 1914-1980

View of the Victoria Nile River, Uganda, 1933

Description:: “Contact" (1933) is a documentary film by Paul Rotha. Made for Imperial Airways and sponsored by Shell-Mex and BP Ltd, "Contact" shows the construction of an airplane and how air travel was opening up the world. It was filmed in England and along air routes in the Middle East, Africa and Athens.
Date:: January 1933
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Rotha (Paul) Papers, 1914-1980

View of the Victoria Nile River near Murchison Falls, Uganda, 1933

Description:: “Contact" (1933) is a documentary film by Paul Rotha. Made for Imperial Airways and sponsored by Shell-Mex and BP Ltd, "Contact" shows the construction of an airplane and how air travel was opening up the world. It was filmed in England and along air routes in the Middle East, Africa and Athens.
Date:: January 1933
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Rotha (Paul) Papers, 1914-1980

View of the remaining center portion of the St. Francis Dam after its disastrous collapse, San Francisquito Canyon (Calif.), 1928

Description:: View of the outside wall of the largest remaining portion of the Saint Francis Dam after its collapse, known as the tombstone section.
Date:: [March 1928]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Harry French Blaney Papers, 1919-1970

View of the remaining center portion of the St. Francis Dam after its disastrous collapse, San Francisquito Canyon (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:: Harry French Blaney Papers, 1919-1970

View of the remaining center portion of the St. Francis Dam after its disastrous collapse, San Francisquito Canyon (Calif.), 1928

Description:: View of the outside wall of the largest remaining portion of the Saint Francis Dam after its collapse, known as the tombstone section.
Date:: [March 1928]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Harry French Blaney Papers, 1919-1970

View of the remaining center portion of the St. Francis Dam after its disastrous collapse, San Francisquito Canyon (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:: Harry French Blaney Papers, 1919-1970

View of the remaining center portion of the St. Francis Dam after its disastrous collapse, San Francisquito Canyon (Calif.), 1928

Description:: View facing west towards the largest remaining portion of the Saint Francis Dam after its collapse. Men are active around the base. The water stage recorder shelter is visible at the top.
Date:: [March 1928]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Harry French Blaney Papers, 1919-1970

View of the remaining center portion of the St. Francis Dam after its disastrous collapse, San Francisquito Canyon (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:: Harry French Blaney Papers, 1919-1970

View of the remaining center portion of the St. Francis Dam after its disastrous collapse, San Francisquito Canyon (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:: Harry French Blaney Papers, 1919-1970

View of the remaining center portion of the St. Francis Dam after its disastrous collapse, San Francisquito Canyon (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:: Harry French Blaney Papers, 1919-1970

View of the Parthenon taken during the filming of Contact, Athens, 1933

Description:: View of the Parthenon, with filmmaker Paul Rotha, with a motion picture camera on a tripod, on the left during the filming of "Contact."
Date:: January 1933
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Rotha (Paul) Papers, 1914-1980

View of the Great Sphinx, taken during the filming of Contact, Jīzah, Egypt, 1932

Description:: Great Sphinx, taken during the filming of "Contact"
Date:: November 1932-December 1932
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Rotha (Paul) Papers, 1914-1980

View of the Great Sphinx and Pyramid of Khafre taken during the filming of Contact, Jīzah, Egypt, 1932

Description:: Great Sphinx in foreground, Pyramid of Khafre centered in background, with people visible walking on path between Sphinx and pyramid, taken during the filming of Contact
Date:: November 1932-December 1932
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Rotha (Paul) Papers, 1914-1980

View of the Great Pyramid with three small pyramids taken during the filming of Contact, Jīzah, Egypt, 1932

Description:: View of the Great Pyramid (or Pyramid of Kjufu or Pyramid of Cheops) with three small pyramids in front of it, taken during the filming of "Contact."
Date:: November 1932-December 1932
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Rotha (Paul) Papers, 1914-1980

View from the ruined Saint Francis down the canyon, San Francisquito Canyon (Calif.), 1928

Description:: View from the ruined Saint Francis dam, on the right, down San Francisquito canyon, with 2 large pieces of concrete dam debris in the left middle-ground.
Date:: [March 1928]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Harry French Blaney Papers, 1919-1970

Valenica orange trees in tanks at the Citrus Experiment Station, Riverside, 1934

Description:: View of Valencia orange trees in tanks at the Citrus Experiment Station with orchard trees in the background.
Date:: October 25, 1934
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Beckett, S. H. (Samuel Hume), 1883-1937
Collection:: Harry French Blaney Papers, 1919-1970

Valenica orange trees in tanks at the Citrus Experiment Station, Riverside, 1934

Description:: View of Valencia orange trees in tanks at the Citrus Experiment Station with orchard trees in the background
Date:: October 25, 1934
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Beckett, S. H. (Samuel Hume), 1883-1937
Collection:: Harry French Blaney Papers, 1919-1970

Ugandan workers rowing a whale boat transporting Paul Rotha and party on Lake Albert on a journey to Murchison Falls, Uganda, 1933

Description:: “Contact" (1933) is a documentary film by Paul Rotha. Made for Imperial Airways and sponsored by Shell-Mex and BP Ltd, "Contact" shows the construction of an airplane and how air travel was opening up the world. It was filmed in England and along air routes in the Middle East, Africa and Athens.
Date:: January 1933
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Rotha (Paul) Papers, 1914-1980

Ugandan workers aboard the tugboat S.S. Livingston on Lake Albert, during the journey of Filmmaker Paul Rotha and his party to Murchison Falls, Uganda, 1933

Description:: “Contact" (1933) is a documentary film by Paul Rotha. Made for Imperial Airways and sponsored by Shell-Mex and BP Ltd, "Contact" shows the construction of an airplane and how air travel was opening up the world. It was filmed in England and along air routes in the Middle East, Africa and Athens.
Date:: January 1933
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Rotha (Paul) Papers, 1914-1980

Ugandan workers aboard the tugboat S.S. Livingston on Lake Albert, during the journey of Filmmaker Paul Rotha and his party to Murchison Falls, Uganda, 1933

Description:: “Contact" (1933) is a documentary film by Paul Rotha. Made for Imperial Airways and sponsored by Shell-Mex and BP Ltd, "Contact" shows the construction of an airplane and how air travel was opening up the world. It was filmed in England and along air routes in the Middle East, Africa and Athens.
Date:: January 1933
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Rotha (Paul) Papers, 1914-1980

Ugandan children and woman photographed during the journey of filmmaker Paul Rotha and party to Murchison Falls, Uganda, 1933

Description:: “Contact" (1933) is a documentary film by Paul Rotha. Made for Imperial Airways and sponsored by Shell-Mex and BP Ltd, "Contact" shows the construction of an airplane and how air travel was opening up the world. It was filmed in England and along air routes in the Middle East, Africa and Athens.
Date:: January 1933
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Rotha (Paul) Papers, 1914-1980

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