Resource Type: still image / Location: Los Angeles (Calif.) / Subject: Disaster - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

Description:: A young boy stands in floodwaters at W. 54th and 5th Avenue after disastrous storms in January of 1940. The heavy rainstorms halted traffic and caused highway and bridge damage. At least three died and many were treated for injuries
Date:: between January 8 and January 10, 1940
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Wreckage of a plane crash that killed 34-year-old test pilot Clark McRoy and his 15-year-old passenger Russell C. Holt. Holt's father, Elwin E. Holt, watched the crash and saw the plane hit the ground 300 yards from his home. Holt said he saw his son wave from the plane before it went into a sharp dive.
Date:: November 25, 1945
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Wreckage of a plane crash that killed 34-year-old test pilot Clark McRoy and his 15-year-old passenger Russell C. Holt. Holt's father, Elwin E. Holt, watched the crash and saw the plane hit the ground 300 yards from his home. Holt said he saw his son wave from the plane before it went into a sharp dive.
Date:: November 25, 1945
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Wreckage of a building after an automobile swerved off the road and crashed into the front of it.
Date:: [1940s?]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Unidentified workers use heavy equipment, possibly a steam shovel or an excavator, to fix flood damage.
Date:: December 13-14, 1934
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Unidentified workers use heavy equipment, possibly a steam shovel or an excavator, to fix flood damage.
Date:: December 13-14, 1934
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Collision took place in Pica Rivera near Serapia Avenue and Rivera Street.
Date:: January 24, 1988
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Kamin-Oncea, Jayne
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Women evacuating Staber’s Beauty Salon because of a fire at the nearby Melody Lane Café. The fire began in the roof of the Melody Lane kitchen and high winds swept the blaze through neighboring Wilshire Blvd. businesses including Staber’s Salon, the Pig’n Whistle candy and pastry shop, Randall Optometrist, McKiernan’s Fashions, Horton & Converse Pharmacy. Capt. Noble Swanson suffered a back sprain, bruises and cuts when a section of roof caved in on him. No one else was injured but total damage was estimated to exceed $200,000.
Date:: April 3, 1947
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: A woman stands on debris from a landslide that began in Elysian Park. The landslide started near the top of Buena Vista Peak as a small crack in the earth. The crack began separating at a rate of about half an inch every 24 hours, then became a meandering zig-zag, and finally a landslide on November 26, 1937. During the landslide 1,500,000 tons of loose rock and dirt tumbled down the hill and onto a 600 foot stretch of Riverside Drive. The disaster caused rerouting of traffic and attracted thousands of spectators. Because the initial crack was identified early, damage and injuries were largely avoided
Date:: November 1937
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

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