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Description:: Related to the article, "Quake Known Dead Reach Seventeen, New Santa Barbara Shocks Send Residents Into Open, City Bravely Faces Future as $15,000,000 Damage is Surveyed; Scores of Buildings Fall or Are Partly Demolished by Quake." Los Angeles Times, 29 Jun. 1925.
Date:: June 29, 1925
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Derailed train engines and other train cars in outcome of railroad collision. Dozens of bystanders are scattered around the wreckage. The train has the numbers "4355" and "76." In the immediate foreground to the right, the rear of a train car reads, "SPMW7025 [?]." In the background the landscape of a town can be seen against the backdrop of mountains. The Southern Pacific Railroad locomotive had collided with a seven-ton sand truck on the train tracks in Glendale. A dozen people were injured, with no fatalities.
Date:: October 19, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: View of the top of the stepped side of the largest remaining portion of the Saint Francis Dam after its collapse.
Date:: March 1928
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Plane crashed in Santa Susana Mountains near Simi Valley and Chatsworth.
Date:: July 13, 1949
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Brother Martin claims to have seen the blast that shattered the Fountain of the World headquarters. The house, in Box Canyon, near Chatsworth and Simi Valley, was destroyed when two excommunicated members of the group bombed it, killing 11.
Date:: December 11, 1958
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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

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