Collection: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives / Subject: Disaster - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

Description:: Man fighting fires from a Navy Tugboat in L.A. Harbor. The fires started when the Markay, an oil tanker owned by the Keystone Tankship Corp., exploded in the wee hours of the morning. The fire was fed by leaking gasoline and threatened at least five terminals in the harbor. At least 22 were injured and 9, possibly 12, people were killed. Damage was estimated at $10,000,000.
Date:: June 22, 1947
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Fire fighters using an axe and a hose on a marine terminal in L.A. Harbor to fight a fire caused by the Markay oil tanker explosion. The fire was fed by leaking gasoline and threatened at least five terminals in the harbor. At least 22 were injured and 9, possibly 12, people were killed. Damage was estimated at $10,000,000.
Date:: June 22, 1947
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Construction of one of the emergency basis to control winter flooding following a fire in the area.
Date:: [October-November, 1935]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: (left to right) Park Superintendent Gilbert L. Skutt, Park Commission Chairman Mabel V. Socha, and Park Commission Engineer Roy T. Green examine a new earth crack in Elysian Park. The new crack follows a huge landslide in the park which dumped 1,500,000 tons of rock and dirt down the slope of Buena Vista Peak and onto Riverside Drive. Skutt, Socha, and Green are part of a group designated to devise a rehabilitation strategy for the park.
Date:: November 1937
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Police Captain Edward Ayres points at the site of an old volcano in Elysian Park. Picture may be associated with the landslide that took place in the park in November of 1937. The landslide began as a small crack in the earth, then widened to a meandering zig-zag, and eventually dumped tons of rock and dirt onto Riverside Drive.
Date:: [November 1937]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Mechanics work to repair damage caused by a landslide in Elysian Park. The landslide started near the top of Buena Vista Peak as a small crack in the earth. The crack began separating around November 15, 1937 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

Description:: Nurses Tillie Wilson and Bill Pearce tending to patient Joe Infausto, who was involved in an automobile accident.
Date:: [between 1925-1945?]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Policeman Charles L. Nelson inspects the 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:: Man surveys the 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

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