Young woman in plaid dress, seated on rock overlooking narrow canyon filled with rocks and brush, with fenced road in left background, blanket or coat in right foreground
Narrow canyon filled with rocks and brush, with high cliff and tree with dead branches at right, fenced road at left. At center of image: vertical fold or damaged area of negative.
Fires swept through Topanga Canyon and the Santa Monica mountains in late November of 1938 when ashes from an old cooking range scattered into nearby grass in Calabasas. Flames jumped the Pacific Coast Highway and burned several homes along the beach north of Santa Monica.