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Description:: Similar photographs of the same flood event appear with the article, "THREE DIE IN SEA LASHED BY RETREATING STORM: Santa Monica Rescue Efforts Fail; Deluge Sweeps Canyon Colony; More Bridges Washed Out," Los Angeles Times, 09 Apr. 1926: A1
Date:: [circa April 8, 1926]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: This photograph is similar to photographs of the same event appearing in a photo spread titled, "Little Santa Anita Canyon Flood Victim; Traffic Bridges Out," Los Angeles Times, 09 Apr. 1926: A12
Date:: [circa April 8, 1926]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: This event was reported on in the article, "High Wind and Torrential Rain Leave Trail of Damage in Southland Towns," Los Angeles Times, 13 Feb. 1936: 8
Date:: February 12, 1936
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:: 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:: Flood relief workers (?) eating at a u-shaped bar following the failure of the Saint Francis Dam. There are 7 women food workers in the center and 3 women in the background. The 2 women wearing white headdresses might be Red Cross volunteers.
Date:: March 1928
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection