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First National Bank, exterior, following robbery, with people gathered, Arcadia, 1922

Description:
Related to 2 articles: (1) "Nab Four For Bank Robbery, Mexicans Are Taken After One Hour’s Chase, First National of Arcadia Out Five Thousand, Cashier Saves Institution from Greater Loss." Los Angeles Times, 6 Apr. 1922. Print. The article states: "… That the four men are members of the band that held up and robbed the Bank of Alhambra Tuesday afternoon and escaped with $700 in cash was asserted by the arresting officers …" (2) "Outlaws Raid Alhambra Bank, Armed Men Grab Cash and Escape to City, Seven Hundred Dollars is Taken from Cage, Robbers Force Autoists to Help Their Flight." Los Angeles Times, 5 Apr. 1922. Print.
Date:
1922
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
First National Bank, exterior, following robbery, with people gathered, Arcadia, 1922

Women and children stand outside a tent after the flood resulting from the failure of the Saint Francis 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:
March 1928
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Women and children stand outside a tent after the flood resulting from the failure of the Saint Francis Dam, Santa Clara River Valley (Calif.), 1928

Main Highway Bridge at Castaic Junction destroyed by the flood following the failure of the Saint Francis Dam, Castaic vicinity (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:
March 13, 1928
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Main Highway Bridge at Castaic Junction destroyed by the flood following the failure of the Saint Francis Dam, Castaic vicinity (Calif.), 1928

Totaled mechanical crane in aftermath of collision with locomotive, Claremont, 1936

Description:
An up-ended and wrecked mechanical crawler crane appears slightly buried in ground, with its undercarriage exposed. In the immediate foreground are nearby railroad tracks. Three boys and a man look through the wreckage. Signage on the crane reads, "Consolidated Crane Service, Excavating Contractor." In the background are palm trees, shrubbery, and what appears to be a wall. Debris is dispersed throughout. A locomotive crashed into the crane as it was being towed by a truck that was crossing the railroad tracks. No one was injured. Image is possibly from a glass plate negative. Text on sleeve mistakenly identifies crane as tractor. Additionally, accident occured on March 23, 1936, not March 25, as dated on sleeve.
Date:
March 23, 1936
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Totaled mechanical crane in aftermath of collision with locomotive, Claremont, 1936

Distant view of remaining center portion of the St. Francis Dam visible after its disastrous collapse, San Francisquito Canyon (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:
March 13, 1928
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Distant view of remaining center portion of the St. Francis Dam visible after its disastrous collapse, San Francisquito Canyon (Calif.), 1928

Automoble crash victims Lucas F. Smith and Duffey Seay, 1934

Description:
This photograph appears with Los Angeles Times article, March 6, 1934, Pair Periled in Auto Plunge, Two Escape as Lawyer’s Auto Plunges Down Hill, Attorney, Facing Investigation on Estate Funds, and Fitts’s Aide in 250-Foot Descent. Facing investigation in connection with his handling of the estate of Mrs. Mary J. Chamberlain, Lucas F. Smith, an attorney, was reported by authorities yesterday afternoon to have been in a spectacular dash of his automobile, in which a District Attorney’s investigator, Duffey Seay, was also riding, through a heavy rail on Huntley Drive and a careening trip of some 250 feet down a precipitous hill leading to Second street. Neither of the two was injured to any extent and the car remained upright …
Date:
1934
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Automoble crash victims Lucas F. Smith and Duffey Seay, 1934

San Francisco City Hall and Hall of Records after earthquake and fire, San Francisco, 1906

Description:
Related to the article, “Heart is Torn From Great City. San Francisco Nearly Destroyed by Earthquakes and Fire, Hundreds of Killed and Injured, Destruction of Other Coast Cities, California’s Greatest Horror.” Los Angeles Times, 19 Apr. 1906. The article states: San Francisco, April 19.—It looks now as if the entire city would be burned, following the great quake of yesterday. ... At 10 o’clock at night, the fire was unabated, and thousands of people are fleeing to the hills and clamoring for places on ferry boats. The damage is now believed to have reached $200,000,000 and 50,000 people are thought to be homeless. ... At 10 p. m. last night the newspapers ceased all effort to collect news, and the Associated Press force is compelled to act independently. ... Tossing Six Hours on Seismic Waves. San Francisco, April 18.—During six hours of mortal dread and nameless terror San Francisco was today tossed upon the seismic waves of the most disastrous earthquake known to the history or the traditions of America’s west coast. In the mad confusion and helpless horror of this night uncounted bodies of dead men and women are lying in morgues and under uplifted walls. ... Fire and flame have added to the destruction, the ruination and despair. The material losses are beyond computation. ... There is no witness of this day’s story whose tongue or pen can describe the wreck and ruin, the death, the doom, the despair and suffering that lies on every hand. ... surrounded by explosions of illuminating and sewer gas. … The Southern Pacific is doing its utmost to get people out the city, and not charging refugees for transportation. ... Prof. George Davidson, of the University of California, formerly connected with the United States Geodetic Survey, said tonight: “The earthquakes came from north to south … Regarding the cause, I maintain, as I always have, that it is the earth cooling on the inside. The cooling brings about contraction, which is bound to bring about a readjustment of the earth’s surface. …” The entire waterfront district of the metropolis is made ground … Included in this area … Palace and Grand Hotels … Merchants Exchange … Stock Exchange … Nevada Bank, Western Union and Postal telegraph offices, the Crocker building … the Chronicle, the Examiner and the sixteen-story Call newspaper building. … From the ruins of the buildings shaken down by the five quakes that followed in such close succession, arose great bursts of flames which swept inward from the bay. … With water mains broken, fire department powerless, and flames spreading; with morgues and hospitals filled to overflowing; with electric lights and power wires down, and telephone and telegraph communication cut off; with railroads crippled … and with panic rampant, the condition of San Francisco was one of almost benumbing horror. …
Date:
April, 1906
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
San Francisco City Hall and Hall of Records after earthquake and fire, San Francisco, 1906

Aftermath of locomotive pile-up in train tunnel, with bystanders looking on, Tehachapi, 1937

Description:
Train accident in railroad tunnel with the resulting pile-up seen in the tunnel's entrance. Bystanders, men, stand throughout the image, on the bridge above the tunnel, in the nearby hillside, and around the wreckage. The bridge has the year, "1915" etched into it. The surrounding area is a rural, grassy field, with barbed wire fencing and trees.
Date:
[Probably March 15, 1937]
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Aftermath of locomotive pile-up in train tunnel, with bystanders looking on, Tehachapi, 1937