Subject: Steam shovels - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

Description:: Unidentified workers use heavy equipment, possibly a steam shovel or an excavator, to fix flood damage.
Date:: December 13-14, 1934
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Unidentified workers use heavy equipment, possibly a steam shovel or an excavator, to fix flood damage.
Date:: December 13-14, 1934
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Album Title reads:"PHOTOGRAPHS OF MULHOLLAND HIGHWAYCITY OF LOS ANGELES BOARD OF PUBLIC WORKS, D.L. REABURN, CONSTRUCTION ENGINEER, 1924, BOOK NO.2"
Date:: May 15, 1924
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Photograph album collection, circa 1850-1964

Description:: Album Title reads:"PHOTOGRAPHS OF MULHOLLAND HIGHWAYCITY OF LOS ANGELES BOARD OF PUBLIC WORKS, D.L. REABURN, CONSTRUCTION ENGINEER, 1924, BOOK NO.2"
Date:: May 15, 1924
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Photograph album collection, circa 1850-1964

Description:: This photograph appears with the article, "Ground Broken for Trade School; Fine Structure Named in Honor of Late Frank Wiggins," Los Angeles Times, 21 Mar. 1926: 5.
Date:: March 20, 1926
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: View of a steam shovel clearing building debris after the Long Beach earthquake with 4 policemen in the foreground and others in the background. A building missing its facade is in the background.
Date:: March 1933
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: The Los Angeles Times article identifies the steam shovel operator as Guy McIntosh.
Date:: July 5, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Will Hays, at controls, and J.B. Irsfeld and Henry Briggs, standing, all in suits and ties, in cab of steam shovel, with 7 uniformed men with flags in front
Date:: July 5, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Crane on Honolulu Avenue near the intersection with Orangedale Avenue loading debris from a catastrophic flood and mudslide into a dump truck on a commercial street in La Crescenta-Montrose (after the January or October flood). A sign on a comercial building reads "D. J. Barrett, Shell." The Honolulu Grocery store is on the right.
Date:: 1934
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: A lot filled with rubble and dirt is being cleared by diggers and cranes.
Date:: [between 1926 and 1928]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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