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View of a wooden house destroyed by the flood following the failure of the Saint Francis Dam; only the roof is left, lying on the ground. A damaged house sits behind it. Three people walk on the dirt road next to the houses.
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March 1928
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still image
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Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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View of the path of the flood that followed the failure of the Saint Francis Dam with a damaged utility pole in the center and debris on the ground. A car is parked next to the pole.
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March 1928
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still image
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Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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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.
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Date:
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March 1928
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Resource Type:
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still image
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Collection:
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Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:
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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.
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Date:
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March 1928
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Resource Type:
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still image
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Collection:
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Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:
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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.
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Date:
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March 1928
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Resource Type:
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still image
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Collection:
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Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:
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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.
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Date:
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March 1928
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still image
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Collection:
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Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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View of 4 men working on a flood-damaged section of railroad track with long wrenches after the failure of the Saint Francis Dam. The Santa Paula branch line of the Southern Pacific was almost totally destroyed.
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still image
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Collection:
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Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:
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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.
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Date:
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March 1928
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Resource Type:
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still image
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Collection:
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Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:
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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.
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Date:
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March 1928
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Resource Type:
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still image
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Collection:
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Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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View of 2 houses heavily damaged by the flood following the failure of the Saint Francis Dam, with the bare beam structure of a completely destroyed building in the foreground. Bare, uprooted trees deposited by the flood rest against the houses.
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Date:
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March 1928
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Resource Type:
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still image
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Collection:
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Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
