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Description:: Aerial view of the Santa Anita horse paddock, likely taken on opening day of the track's fourth racing season.
Date:: [December 25, 1937]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Side view of a section of the St. Francis Dam, nicknamed "The Tombstone", after the dam collapsed on March 12, 1928. The resulting flood killed over 400 people, and was considered one of the worst civil engineering failures in American history. The dam collapse caused the second greatest loss of life in California history, second only to the San Francisco earthquake of 1906. The St. Francis dam was built between 1924 and 1926 in St. Francisquito Canyon, near present-day Santa Clarita. William Mulholland was the engineer behind the dam's construction, and the dam failed just hours after he had personally given it a safety inspection, effectively ending his career.
Date:: [circa March 13, 1928]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Reflecting pool on the sixteen-acre estate of film comedian Harold Lloyd and his wife, Mildred Harris Lloyd in Beverly Hills.
Date:: [1927?]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Dedication of Casa Figueroa as a historic landmark with a large wooden plaque. The house was built by Ramon Figueroa, brother of Governor Jose Figueroa, and was used as a museum and educational center after the dedication.
Date:: November 5, 1934
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Crowd surveys the former site of the Golden State Fireworks and Display Co. plant, where a fireworks explosion occurred on Feb. 7, 1940. The blast was felt 40 miles away, injured four, and caused damage at many nearby homes. Cause of the explosion was suspected to be decomposing firework shells, or possibly a gopher chewing on powder. Damages was estimated at $100,000
Date:: between February 7 and February 11, 1940
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: 100-foot geyser erups from the Casa Diablo steam vents, twelve miles under June Lake. The steam vents had previously been dormant for a number of years.
Date:: [circa January 29, 1938]
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:: View of the Mexican American community Chavez Ravine, near present day Elysian Park and Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles, from a nearby hillside.
Date:: 1946
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Hillside view of the Mexican American community Chavez Ravine, near present day Elysian Park and Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles.
Date:: ca. 1953
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: View from San Pedro of Terminal Island's Fish Harbor and the fishing boat Blue Sky.
Date:: 1940
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

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