Genre: cellulose nitrate film / Subject: Disaster - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

Description:: This photograph, reversed, appears with Los Angeles Times photo spread, February 17, 1938, "First Photographs of June Lake Snowslide Where Two Died Trapped in Cabin"
Date:: 1938
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: View of a huge concrete remnant of the Saint Francis Dam in the path of the flood following the failure of the dam in San Francisquito Canyon. Steps of the face of the dam are visible on the left side of the concrete boulder. The block is approximately 63 feet long, 30 feet high, and 54 feet wide.
Date:: March 14, 1928
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:: Spectators carrying a wounded woman at the Tournament of Roses Parade
Date:: January 1, 1926
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Damaged James Flood Mansion, left, and damaged Fairmont Hotel (950 Mason St.), right, photographed from California Street. Left: bicycle leaning on wall, man partially visible; center: 3 or 4 men walking; center right: person walking; street in foreground
Date:: 1906
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Walls of ruined buildings, with rubble, twisted metal, burned wood, and broken cart in foreground, damaged building with fallen dome in background
Date:: April, 1906
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Related to the article, "Quake Known Dead Reach Seventeen, New Santa Barbara Shocks Send Residents Into Open, City Bravely Faces Future as $15,000,000 Damage is Surveyed; Scores of Buildings Fall or Are Partly Demolished by Quake." Los Angeles Times, 29 Jun. 1925.
Date:: June 29, 1925
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Derailed train engines and other train cars in outcome of railroad collision. Dozens of bystanders are scattered around the wreckage. The train has the numbers "4355" and "76." In the immediate foreground to the right, the rear of a train car reads, "SPMW7025 [?]." In the background the landscape of a town can be seen against the backdrop of mountains. 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

Description:: View of the top of the stepped side of the largest remaining portion of the Saint Francis Dam after its collapse.
Date:: March 1928
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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