Subject: Search and rescue operations--California - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

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
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Description:: Minnie Kennedy, mother of Aimee Semple McPherson, doing radio interview with deep-sea diver R. C. Crawford during search for her daughter's body.
Date:: 1926
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: This photograph is possibly related to the article, "MISSING EDUCATOR HUNTED IN HILLS AND ALONG SEA: Redondo Search Fails as Officers Sift Clews to Terrific Struggle With School Safe-Crackers," Los Angeles Times, 19 Oct. 1932: A1
Date:: [circa October 18, 1932]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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