Date: 1928 - 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

Description:: Neighborhood with homes and an institutional building half-submerged in water and flood debris on the exposed ground following the flood resulting from the failure of the Saint Francis Dam.
Date:: March 1928
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Photograph of Joseph F. Sartori, banker and civic leader, with his wife Margaret, in evening attire, standing on a sidewalk with 3 women, a man and a policeman standing on the right. Behind them is an advertisement for a performance by the Hall Johnson Negro Choir, below a banner reading "On the Behymer Courses" (referring to the Behymer Artist Course.
Date:: 1928
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Henri Cochet, French tennis champion (R), shaking hands over the net with a competitor at the Pacific Southwest Tennis Championships. The grandstands are nearly empty.
Date:: October 1928
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Parkin acted as one of several expert witnesses for the prosecution against William Edward Hickman, tried for the kidnap and murder of 12-year-old Marion Parker in December of 1927. Hickman was sentenced to death after a 13-day trial. He was executed at San Quentin, October 19, 1928.
Date:: 1928
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Photograph of Jack Kearns, in a suit and hat, lighting a cigarette.
Date:: [between 1920-1939]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Portrait photograph of Otto Kahn at a Los Angeles train station just before leaving Los Angeles.
Date:: March 30, 1928
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Irving Berlin performs some of his famous ballads on the steps of the new City Hall at its dedication ceremony in 1928.
Date:: Apr. 26, 1928
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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