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Description:: Frank J. Baum was the son of Frank L. Baum who wrote the Wonderful Wizard of Oz. Frank J. Baum wrote a biography about his father, and helped with the creation of the Wizard of Oz movie. He was also a Lt. Col and a lawyer.
Date:: November 22, 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:: View of two women and a child walking in front of a relief camp with tents for people who were displaced by the flood following the failure of the Saint Francis Dam. There are about 12 tents visible, with trash containers, a parked automobile and clothes drying on a clothes line on the left, and mountains in the distance.
Date:: March 1928
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: View of twenty-seven or so children in an open area in front of 5 tents on the left, in a relief camp for people who were displaced by the flood following the failure of the Saint Francis Dam. An automobile is parked in front of a tent and mountains are visible in the distance.
Date:: March 1928
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Photograph appears with the headline, ""Times" Prize Home at the Los Angeles National Housing Exposition," Los Angeles Times, 26 May 1935: G8.
Date:: 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Mr. Allen has spent four days in Southland visiting local travel conditions. He brought with him from Chicago a report detailing a 20% increase in passenger traffic during the first two months of 1936.
Date:: March 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Harrett Matson, Leonie Clos, Elizabeth Kerr, and Erlinda Sepulveda stand by a building. A small gate separates two of them women from the two others. They all wear formal dresses.
Date:: [circa January 1936]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Three jockeys ride their horses on the race track while final phases of construction take place. A workman can be seen leaning on the tote board in the background.
Date:: [circa November, 1934]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: People gather around a recently arrived freight train to see the 200-inch glass lens that traveled across the country.
Date:: April 9, 1936
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Adrian Hartog was a well known importer and exporter of merchandise in the Los Angeles area. He was also appointed as the consulate for the Netherlands.
Date:: [between 1925/1939]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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