Genre: cellulose nitrate film / Location: La Crescenta-Montrose (Calif.) - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

Description:: In November 1933, wildfires raged through the San Gabriel Mountains above the Crescenta Valley. Two floods followed the next year. In late December, a series of storms dropped 12 inches of rain. On New Year's Eve, heavy rains led to sporadic flooding. Around midnight, mountain hillsides collapsed sending millions of tons of mud into the Crescenta Valley neighborhoods below. More than 400 homes were destroyed in La Cañada, La Crescenta, Montrose and Tujunga. Scores of people were killed, and hundreds were left homeless. Another rainstorm on October 17 caused additional flooding and damage, but no deaths and damage, but no deaths.
Date:: 1934
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: View of two little boys inside the living room of their home after a devastating flood (in either January or October). One boy holds on to his dog and the other holds a shovel. The flood level is visible on the wall and upright piano. A piece of toppled upholstered furniture is in the room beyond.
Date:: 1934
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Partially constructed house following a catastrophic flood and mudslide (in either January or October). Cars across a muddy street are visible through the doorway.
Date:: 1934
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Related to the article, "Gale Perils Ships as Record Storm Leaves Trio Dead: Coast Guard Boats Dash to Rescue; Several Injured as Rain Here Sets Two-Decade Mark." Los Angeles Times, 9 Apr. 1935.
Date:: April 8, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Negative misfiled with 1934 Rose Parade photographs. Likely related to flooding that year in the Crescenta Valley region.
Date:: 1934
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: OpenUCLA Collections
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: An aid worker assists a Stricken-looking young woman wrapped in a blanket and seated on a bench with a crying baby with a bandage on its forehead after a catastrophic flood and mudslide (in either January or October). A partially visible young man watches from the left.
Date:: January 1, 1934
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: In November 1933, wildfires raged through the San Gabriel Mountains above the Crescenta Valley. Two floods followed the next year. In late December, a series of storms dropped 12 inches of rain. On New Year's Eve, heavy rains led to sporadic flooding. Around midnight, mountain hillsides collapsed sending millions of tons of mud into the Crescenta Valley neighborhoods below. More than 400 homes were destroyed in La Cañada, La Crescenta, Montrose and Tujunga. Scores of people were killed, and hundreds were left homeless. Another rainstorm on October 17 caused additional flooding and damage, but no deaths.
Date:: January 2, 1934
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Group of men clearing boulders and debris from around a bus after a catastrophic flood and mudslide (in either January or October). Signs on the bus read "452"j and "Montrose."
Date:: 1934
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Night photograph of at least 3 automobiles covered in mud up nearly to the tops of the engines (after the January or October flooding).
Date:: January 1934
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Group of men moving boulders after a catastrophic mudslide (in either January or October) with the San Gabriel Mountains in the background
Date:: 1934
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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