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Description:: House with Spanish tile roof, with boards, chains, and pulleys on patio and against side of house, with overhanging tree at right and ocean at left. In another image of this house the edge of the patio pavement on the cliff side is ragged as though lost in a landslide (uclamss_1429_0435).
Date:: [between 1929-1939]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: View towards a pool of water remaining in the reservoir (?) or somewhere else in San Francisquito Canyon following the failure of the Saint Francis Dam
Date:: March 1928
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: View towards Will Rogers' ranch house with the hitching post in the distance on the right
Date:: September 7, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Possibly connected to Los Angeles Times article, October 12, 1933, Incendiary Sign in Blaze Cited, Park Fire Tragedy Inquest Witnesses Tell Story, Mysterious Stranger Seen Fleeing From Scene, Inquiry May Be Drawn Out Over Several Days. … The two witnesses were Frank Shearer, superintendent of the city park department, and F.W. Roewekamp, park landscape engineer, who both testified that they were but a few hundred yards distant when the blaze started …
Date:: 1933
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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 13, 1928
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Aerial view of mostly fields, some buildings, with river running through foreground and hills in background
Date:: [1930s?]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Possibly related to the article “Motoring : Coast Highway to Be Improved, Preparations Being Made to Handle Millions, Work Now Under Way Between Two Beach Cities, Right of Way of 100 Feet in Communities Planned.” Los Angeles Times, 9 Feb. 1930.
Date:: [1930-1931?]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: In 1934, with plans in place for United States Reclamation Service and the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California to build Parker Dam on the Colorado River between Arizona and California, Arizona governor Benjamin B. Moeur protested the diversion of water to California by sending members of the Arizona National Guard to the dam construction site. A local ferry service also participated under the informal name of the Arizona Navy.
Date:: 1934
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Concrete bridge with 2 arched supports, with wide dirt and grass area prominent in foregroudn
Date:: [1930 or 1931?]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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