Genre: news photographs / Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection / Repository: University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

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:: 1928
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Portrait of Kathleen Gerber wearing a tall, cylindrical straw hat with floral trim at the California Pacific International Exposition in Balboa Park
Date:: August 28, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: The Mayor's new Police Commission is sworn in by City Clerk Dominguez.
Date:: 1933-1934
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Hayward Thompson successfully drove for five hours and thirteen minutes, a total of 100 miles, through congested traffic all while completely blindfolded. The affair was his 333rd exhibition and the longest since his sixty mile drive in Miami.
Date:: January 31, 1927
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Men in suits or vests and hats playing lawn bowls in Exposition Park
Date:: [between 1920-1939]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Portrait of Commodore Isaac Hull, who commanded the USF Constitution from 1810-1812, which is displayed in the museum aboard the ship.
Date:: [February-March, 1933]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Group portrait of eleven pages serving at a convention of the Daughters of the American Revolution at the Biltmore Hotel.
Date:: March 11-13, 1936
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: OpenUCLA Collections
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: W. H. Bowers and Olive Orr Brugen-Schmidt Bowers, married three just months, seated together at a court proceeding. Olive Bowers was accused of plotting with Elmer M. Archer to poison her husband. The plot was discovered when their conversations were overheard on a 2-party telephone line.
Date:: March, 1926
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Irvin Taplin, seated, and L.E. Lampton, standing, both with right hands raised, with Harry Hunt, standing, looking on, at desk with pens, papers, books, and sign reading TAPLIN
Date:: [1929?]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Painting of King Gustav V, in military uniform with sword, printed as a plate in a book and photographed from open book on mat or carpet. Caption under plate reads: H. M. King Gustaf V of Sweden (In the Swedish Chamber of Commerce of the U.S.A.)
Date:: [1933?]
1933
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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