Flood damage resulting from San Gabriel fire, 1924

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Photograph of flood damage resulting from San Gabriel fire, 1924. A lawn covered in mud is visible in the foreground while bushes, trees, and other plants stand in rows. A house is visible in the background. Photonegative reads "This Photo Shows The Rupert Thurnbull Grounds On South California Ave., Monrovia, North And South Sides Of House. Water Swept Over The Orchard And Grounds For Twenty-Four Hours Leaving a Twelve-Inch Deposit of Mud, Sand and Gravel. Views 14 and 15."

Asset Metadata

Title Flood damage resulting from San Gabriel fire, 1924

Subject Floods (lcsh), General Subjects -- Disasters -- General -- Uncataloged (file heading), residential sites (adlf)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place California (states), Los Angeles (counties), San Gabriel (city or populated place), USA (countries)

Temporal Subject 1924

Type images

Format 1 photograph : photoprint, b&w ; 21 x 26 cm. (aacr2), photographic prints (aat), photographs (aat)

Source California Historical Society (contributing entity), California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960 (collection), Title Insurance and Trust, and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection, 1860-1960 (subcollection)

Date Created 1924

Publisher University of Southern California. Libraries (digital)

Repository Email specol@lib.usc.edu

Repository Name USC Libraries Special Collections

Repository Location Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189

Rights Public Domain. Please credit both “University of Southern California. Libraries” and “California Historical Society” as the source. Digitally reproduced by the USC Digital Library.

Copyright Public Domain. Please credit both “University of Southern California. Libraries” and “California Historical Society” as the source. Digitally reproduced by the USC Digital Library.

Access Conditions Send requests to address or e-mail given

Permanent Link (DOI) https://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m20479

Identifier 35736 (accession number), CHS-35736 (call number), CHS-35736 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-22737 (legacy record id), chs-m20479 (legacy record id)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 22737

Unique identifier UC123792

Legacy Identifier CHS-35736.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 16.5 in × 12.7 in at 300dpi
41.9 cm × 32.4 cm at 300dpi

Inherited Values

Title Title Insurance and Trust and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection 1860-1960

Description The nearly 15,000 unique photographs of this collection contain the work of C.C. Pierce which cover the Los Angeles region city, street and architectural views, California Missions, Southwestern Native Americans, and turn-of-century Nevada, Arizona, and California. Pierce, active from 1886 to 1940, was one of the leading photographers of his day and amassed a collection of 15,000 images, including his own and those bought and copied from his contemporaries, George Wharton James and Charles Puck. The James collection contains over 2,000 images of portraits, customs, ceremonies, arts, and games of various groups of Southwestern Native Americans.

Date Created 1860/1960

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