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

Description:: Ralph McKeown, in suit and tie, and woman in coat and dress, holding hat, both standing on lawn with hill and shrubs in background
Date:: [1930-1937?]
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:: First National Bank, two-story building with 4 columns, facade and columns heavily damaged at top, with cracks and exposed bricks at left and right
Date:: June 29, 1925
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: View of boardwalk or business district near Ocean Park and Lick piers, with damaged businesses in foreground, crowd of people in midground, damaged amusements, smoke, and stream of water from fire hose in background
Date:: January 6, 1924
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Bartlett, Adelbert, 1887-1966
Collection:: Adelbert Bartlett Papers, 1922-1950

Description:: View to the south of Ocean Park Pier and Lick Pier on fire, with smoke filling the sky and empty beach in foreground, buildings at left
Date:: January 6, 1924
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Bartlett, Adelbert, 1887-1966
Collection:: Adelbert Bartlett Papers, 1922-1950

Description:: View to the south of Ocean Park Pier and Lick Pier on fire, with smoke filling the sky and empty beach in foreground
Date:: January 6, 1924
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Bartlett, Adelbert, 1887-1966
Collection:: Adelbert Bartlett Papers, 1922-1950

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