Subject: Disaster victims--California--Los Angeles - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

Description:: Town meeting for residents of Riverside Drive, whose lives were affected when a landslide occurred in Elysian Park, behind their homes. A fissure had been slowly growing on Buena Vista Peak in the park for about a week until it finally ripped open and dumped 1,500,000 tons of dirt and rock down the slope and onto Riverside Drive. The debris covered 600 feet of Riverside Drive, forcing traffic to be rerouted and attracting thousands of spectators from as far away as New York. Because the crack had been identified early on, damage and injuries were largely avoided
Date:: November 1937
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: A cloud of smoke from a fire in Griffith Park spans the image, thickening at center at right. Foliage along the bottom edge in the foreground slopes down a hillside and meets a road in the distance at center. The road is viewed from above and enters frame from the lower right corner, stretching upwards towards center. At the end of the road, dozens of cars are parked. People stand amongst the vehicles, scattered into small groups. To the left, dozens of people are visible fleeing down a hillside. Behind them, flames rise. Hills surround and rise from the road at the base of the canyon. They are mostly obscured by the cloud of smoke.
Date:: [December 20, 1929]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Photo appears with the article "6,000 flee homes. Storm disaster," Los Angeles Times, 25 Feb. 1969: 1.
Date:: circa February 25, 1969
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Reported in "The street that was: Rainbow Ave. didn't die, just slid away," Los Angeles Times, 3 Mar. 1969: C1.
Date:: March 3, 1969
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Image that accompanies caption in print is alternate photograph present on the same negative in file.
Date:: circa March 3, 1969
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Photograph of six girls who survived the fire that destroyed the Hope Development School. They are wrapped in blankets in a room with 2 women who cared for them.
Date:: [June 1924]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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