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Six geologists and/or civil engineers standing in front of flood debris following the flood resulting from the failure of the Saint Francis Dam, San Francisquito Canyon (Calif.), 1928

Description:
Six men standing in front of flood debris composed of branches following the flood resulting from the failure of the Saint Francis Dam. The men are probably engineers and/or geologists. The man in the center may be H. A. Van Norman, assistant chief engineer of the water bureau.
Date Created:
1928
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographs Collection
Six geologists and/or civil engineers standing in front of flood debris following the flood resulting from the failure of the Saint Francis Dam, San Francisquito Canyon (Calif.), 1928

Coroner Frank Nance and engineer H. A. Van Norman at the Coroner's Inquest following the failure of the Saint Francis Dam, Los Angeles, 1928

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 Created:
1928
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographs Collection
Coroner Frank Nance and engineer H. A. Van Norman at the Coroner's Inquest following the failure of the Saint Francis Dam, Los Angeles, 1928

Dedication of the Boquet Canyon Reservoir with William P. Whitsett, H. A. Van Norman and Mayor Frank Shaw, 1934

Description:
Dedication of Boquet Reservoir with William P. Whitsett, Chairman of the Metropolitan Water District; H. A. Van Norman, Chief Engineer and General Manager of the Bureau of Water Works; and Los Angeles Mayor Frank Shaw standing in front of the gates of the concrete inlet-outlet tower
Date Created:
1934
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographs Collection
Dedication of the Boquet Canyon Reservoir with William P. Whitsett, H. A. Van Norman and Mayor Frank Shaw, 1934

Coroner Frank Nance and engineer H. A. Van Norman at the Coroner's Inquest following the failure of the Saint Francis Dam, Los Angeles, 1928

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. Nine men are visible in the jury box on the right and one man is seated behind a table in the foreground.
Date Created:
1928
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographs Collection
Coroner Frank Nance and engineer H. A. Van Norman at the Coroner's Inquest following the failure of the Saint Francis Dam, Los Angeles, 1928

Dedication of the Boquet Canyon Reservoir with William P. Whitsett, Mayor Frank Shaw, H. A. Van Norman, and others, 1934

Description:
Dedication of Boquet Reservoir with an unidentified woman; an unidentified man, William P. Whitsett, Chairman of the Metropolitan Water District; Los Angeles Mayor Frank Shaw; an unidentified man; and H. A. Van Norman, Chief Engineer and General Manager of the Bureau of Water Works standing next to the gates of the concrete inlet-outlet tower after the water began to flow out to fill the reservoir.
Date Created:
1934
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographs Collection
Dedication of the Boquet Canyon Reservoir with William P. Whitsett, Mayor Frank Shaw, H. A. Van Norman, and others, 1934

Three geologists and/or civil engineers examine an engineering drawing shortly after the failure of the Saint Francis Dam, [San Francisquito Canyon (Calif.) ?], 1928

Description:
Three civil engineers and/or geologists, examine an engineering drawing, bounding a large volume of drawings, shortly after the failure of the Saint Francis Dam. The man on the left may be H.A. Van Norman, assistant chief engineer of the water bureau. On the front page of the volume, some of the text reads "Corporation...Maps...Valley...Tandberg [?]...Engineer"
Date Created:
1928
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographs Collection
Three geologists and/or civil engineers examine an engineering drawing shortly after the failure of the Saint Francis Dam, [San Francisquito Canyon (Calif.) ?], 1928

H. A. Van Norman and Stanley Dunham, Saint Francis Dam engineers, look over the destruction of the flood caused by the failure of the dam, Santa Clara River Valley (Calif.), 1928

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 Created:
1928
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographs Collection
H. A. Van Norman and Stanley Dunham, Saint Francis Dam engineers, look over the destruction of the flood caused by the failure of the dam, Santa Clara River Valley (Calif.), 1928
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