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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

Description:: Related to Los Angeles Times article, May 23, 1924, Quick Grand Jury Action Pledged in Bomb Plot, Inyo Prosecutor Gets Evidence Pointing to Mojave Desert Ranchers, Owens Stockmen. Desert ranchers from Mojave and cattle owners and ranchers from the Owens Valley, moving in swift automobiles and with their faces covered, blew up the Los Angeles Aqueduct early Wednesday morning at the spillway three miles north of Lone Pine, according to evidence …
Date:: 1924
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: A derailed train is burrowed shallowly in the ground in the aftermath of a railroad accident. Bystanders--men, women, and children--surround the locomotive, especially to the left of the image. The head of the train has numbers, "2451" and "76." The engineer's train car is painted with "2451." Power line towers, houses, and white picket fences are seen in the background. In the far distance, a "West Glendale" sign is present. The Southern Pacific Railroad locomotive had collided with a seven-ton sand truck on the train tracks in Glendale. A dozen people were injured, with no fatalities.
Date:: October 19, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: Bird's-eye view of crashed street car at First and Hill Streets, with hill in foreground, police officers and crowd gathered at intersection in midground, buildings, parking lot, and billboards in background
Date:: February 8, 1937
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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

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:: 1928
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: County Jail building with collapsed facade and tilted floors, rubble and lamppost in foreground, with trees at left and right. The jail was located on the block occupied by the current courthouse, probably near the curernt Hall of Records on the west corner of the block.
Date:: June 29, 1925
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Related to article, "Trainwreck in Glendale Hurts Dozen," Los Angeles Times, October 20, 1935.
Date:: October 19, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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

Description:: Damaged remains of about 12 buildings, with street in foreground with cable car tracks and fallen cables, with building with arched window, possibly a church, at left, group of about 6 people, 1 man standing apart, 2 burned trees at center, hill in background, with smoke or haze in sky
Date:: 1906
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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