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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:: An interior shot of the Carma showing the piece of furniture where Captain Wanderwell's body was found.
Date:: December 1932
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Actor William Holden posing with seven Rose Princesses vying for the title of Rose Queen for the Pasadena Rose Parade.
Date:: [circa December 3, 1950]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Portrait photograph of Maud Ballington Booth, Salvation Army leader and co-founder of the Volunteers of America. On her jacket are 2 pins in the form of stars. The upper pin has "Volunteers VLP." The lower star is suspended from a band with the message "medal of honor."
Date:: [circa 1920-1930]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Barbara Dougall poses in a satin dress and crown. She has been crowned Rose Queen for the 1939 Tournament of Roses.
Date:: December, 1938
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Nellie Madison, right, and one of her attorneys, Frank Ryan, left.
Date:: March 29, 1934
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: This photograph may be related to the article, “Freezing Test to Be Taken by Human: Los Angeles Chemist to Conduct New Experiment to Learn Whether Germs Can Be Destroyed He’s Signing His Life Away ‘FREEZING DEATH’ TEST TO BE TAKEN BY HUMAN,” Los Angeles Times, 10 Aug. 1935: 1.
Date:: September 04, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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