Location: Santa Paula (Calif.) - 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:: [March 1928]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Harry French Blaney Papers, 1919-1970

Description:: Two photographs: Top one is of two women and two children stoking a fire outdoors, and the bottom one is of cattle.
Date:: February, 1922
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Description:: Edward C. Converse (aka Edmund C. Converse, Jr.) is one of three heirs to a fortune of more than $100,000,000 from his father's death.
Date:: February 1922
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Description:: Four photographs of different people on the ranch, horses appear in some of the photos. Mrs. EC. Converse is in first three photos and Mr. EC. Converse is in first one.
Date:: February 5, 1922
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Description:: Edward C. Converse (aka Edmund C. Converse, Jr.) is one of three heirs to a fortune of more than $100,000,000 from his father's death.
Date:: February, 1922
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Description:: When the St. Francis Dam broke in 1928 upstream a devastating flood came down the river, very wide at a speed of 5 miles (8 km) per hour, adding the rancho's river adjacent settlements to the losses and destruction. (Wikipedia)
Date:: February 1922
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: On the property of the original Mexican land grant of Rancho Santa Paula y Saticoy. The ranch was purchaseed by Edmund C. Converse, Jr. in 1908.
Date:: February, 1922
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: OpenUCLA Collections
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Rows of C. C. C. trucks are parked outside a facility in Santa Paula. A tree is seen in the foreground and what appears to be a residence in the background.
Date:: July 3, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Rows of C. C. C. trucks are parked outside a facility in Santa Paula. A man stands in the foreground.
Date:: July 3, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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