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Description:: George Seabury writing notes while Arthur Tuttle watches. On the desk by Tuttle is a gavel, and in front of Seabury is a magazine titled "Civil Engineering". The photo looks to be inside of an office.
Date:: September 26, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: H. A. Van Norman, assistant chief engineer of the water bureau, testifying before Los Angeles Coroner Frank Nance at the Coroner's inquest following the failure of the Saint Francis Dam. Three men are visible in the jury box on the right and one man is seated behind a table in the foreground.
Date:: March 22, 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 22, 1928
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Photograph of Pasadena consulting engineer, Ormond A. Stone, after being appointed chief engineer of the Works Progress Administration projects.
Date:: Aug 1, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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