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View of the St. Francis Dam after its collapse on March 12, 1928.

Description:
Image of the St. Francis Dam after its March 12, 1928 collapse. 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. 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
View of the St. Francis Dam after its collapse on March 12, 1928.

Side view of "The Tombstone", a slab of the St. Francis Dam visible after its disastrous collapse, San Francisquito Canyon, 1928

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
Side view of "The Tombstone", a slab of the St. Francis Dam visible after its disastrous collapse, San Francisquito Canyon, 1928

Orchard (?) trees half-buried in mud deposited by the flood following 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
Orchard (?) trees half-buried in mud deposited by the flood following the failure of the Saint Francis Dam, Santa Clara River Valley (Calif.), 1928

Flood relief workers outside a Victorian building after the flood resulting from the failure of the St. Francis Dam, Santa Clara River Valley, 1928

Description:
View of flood relief workers gathered between a tent and a truck outside a 3-story Victorian building after the flood resulting from the failure of the St. Francis Dam. A temporary canvas awning is attached to the side of the building. Several of the men have their hands in their pockets on what may have been a chilly day.
Date:
March 1928
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Flood relief workers outside a Victorian building after the flood resulting from the failure of the St. Francis Dam, Santa Clara River Valley, 1928

Officials (?) on the edge of the wide path of the flood that followed the failure of the Saint Francis Dam, San Francisquito Canyon (Calif.) (probably), 1928

Description:
Four men, officials (?), dressed in suits and hats, with three women gazing out at the wide swath of the flood path across San Francisquito Canyon (most likely, or some area of the Santa Clara River Valley). They stand beside three visible cars on a roadway. The roadway in the foreground was cut away by the flood.
Date:
March 1928
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Officials (?) on the edge of the wide path of the flood that followed the failure of the Saint Francis Dam, San Francisquito Canyon (Calif.) (probably), 1928