Flood damage resulting from San Gabriel fire, 1924

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Photograph of flood damage resulting from San Gabriel fire, 1924. A walkway with telephone poles in the center runs from the left foreground to the center background while covered in dirt and puddles of water. A slight incline is visible on both sides while a bridge can be seen in the distance. A fence that lines a road is visible at left while trees line the left and right. Photonegative reads "Another View Of The Pacific Electric Cut Adjoining Foothill Blvd. Looking East From View No. 3 Showing Dirt And Water Upon The Tracks. View No. 4."

Asset Metadata

Title Flood damage resulting from San Gabriel fire, 1924

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

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 : photonegative, b&w ; 13 x 18 cm. (aacr2), negatives (photographic) (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-m20486

Identifier 35744 (accession number), CHS-35744 (call number), CHS-35744 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-22747 (legacy record id), chs-m20486 (legacy record id)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 22747

Unique identifier UC123798

Legacy Identifier CHS-35744.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 15.3 in × 12.2 in at 300dpi
38.9 cm × 31.2 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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