Tidal Waves of Water Sweeps Through Canyon
Photograph
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]
