Tidal Waves of Water Sweeps Through Canyon

Tidal Waves of Water Sweeps Through Canyon

Photograph

Associated Press

Maker
American

Tidal Waves of Water Sweeps Through Canyon

December 14, 1963
Gelatin silver print
Image: 6 × 9 3/8 in. (15.3 × 23.8 cm)
Paper: 8 × 10 in. (20.3 × 25.4 cm)
Gift of Vincent S. Jones
Inscriptions printed in black ink on image recto, BC: (LA37) LOS ANGELES, Dec.14--TIDAL WAVE OF WATER SWEEPS THROUGH CANYON-- \ A wall of water sweeps down a canyon directly below Los Angeles Baldwin \ Hills Reservoir after the storage basin cracked open and released \ the torrent. Houses were swept into kindling as the waves surged past. \ This picture taken by Richard Levine, an amateur photographer who was \ on the scene. (AP Wirephoto) (jfm71910tms-cor)1963; inscribed in black ink on verso, TR: Floods [sideways]
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