Walls of Water Raced Down this Canyon

Walls of Water Raced Down this Canyon

Photograph

Associated Press

Maker
American

Walls of Water Raced Down this Canyon

December 15, 1963
Gelatin silver print
Image: 6 × 9 7/16 in. (15.3 × 24 cm)
Paper: 8 × 10 in. (20.3 × 25.4 cm)
Gift of Vincent S. Jones
Inscriptions printed in black ink on recto, BC: (LA17) LOS ANGELES, Dec.15--WALL OF WATER RACED DOWN THIS CANYON--Residents slosh through ankle- \ deep mud to locate possessions in these wrecked homes today following yesterday's break of \ the Baldwin Hills Reservoir in Los Angeles. Reservoir is in extreme background. Some homes \ along canyon wall in left background were carried away and destroyed. (AP Wirephoto) \ (ifmll400stf)1963
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