Genre: Black-and-white photographs / Location: Santa Clara River Valley (Calif.) / Subject: Flood damage--California--Santa Clara River Valley / Date: 1928 - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

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

Description:: Landscape with a palm tree, well and water tank in the center, flanked by tractors and with men working beside a house on the right, after the flood that followed the failure of the Saint Francis Dam.
Date:: [March 1928]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Harry French Blaney Papers, 1919-1970

Description:: View of a wooden house destroyed and another damaged by the flood following the failure of the Saint Francis Dam; only the roof of one is left, lying on the ground. A worker stands beside a pile of strewn tree debris.
Date:: [March 1928]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Harry French Blaney Papers, 1919-1970

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

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