Resource Type: still image / Location: Newhall (Calif.) - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

Description:: Two men look in windows of a cabin in Placerita Canyon, Newhall. The cabin was the residence of Gladys and Archie Carter lived, with a boarder, Frances Walker. Ms. Walker was accidentally shot by Ms. Carter.
Date:: [circa June 1935]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: Bodies of about ten flood victims enshrouded in sheets and resting on inclined wooden boards in an improvised morgue in Newhall. Four men and one woman stand at the end of the room. Another man is kneeling down at the foot of one of the dead.
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 14, 1928
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Bodies of twelve flood victims enshrouded in sheets and resting on inclined wooden boards in an improvised morgue in Newhall.
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 14, 1928
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Margaret Willis and Bert C. Webster tossed the body of Dr. Benjamin Baldwin over this railing a short distance south of the Newhall tunnel after Willis killed him and stuffed his body into a trunk.
Date:: April 1924
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Margaret Willis and Bert C. Webster tossed the body of Dr. Benjamin Baldwin over this railing a short distance south of the Newhall tunnel after Willis killed him and stuffed his body into a trunk.
Date:: April 1924
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Similar photograph appears with the headline, "Where Trunk Was Cast Into Ditch by Slayer and Man Held in Case," Los Angeles Times, 14 Apr 1924: 2.
Date:: April 1924
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Mrs. Gladys Carter is being held in custody for the murder of 20-year-old Frances Walker after fatally shooting Miss Walker and critically wounding herself with a bullet wound to the chest.
Date:: April 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Virginia and Gloria smile with their arms wrapped around each other.
Date:: June 26, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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