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Image Title: North Sacramento Flood

Date: March 31, 1928

Place: North Sacramento, California

Description/Caption: On verso, "Watch your credit. . . 427160 International Newsreel Photo Slug . . (Gen. View Flood) Air View of Water Ravaged Sacramento Valley.

Sacramento, Cal. . . First airplane photo of the flood caused by fast melting snow in the High Sierras which swelled twelve Northern California and Nevada rivers to more than capacity and inundated the Sacramento Valley. Farms, orchards, homes and highways were damaged to the extent of millions of dollars. This view was taken while the waters raging at their worst. Five known dead were recovered here and it is feared that possible 63 lives were lost. Six hundred were rendered homeless. L-3-31-28 FM.AB.E."

Medium: black and white photograph

Photographer/Maker: International Newsreel 210 South Street, New York City

Cite as: CA-L-0027, WaterArchives.org

Restrictions: There are no known U.S. copyright restrictions on this image. While the digital image is freely available, it is requested that <a href="http://www.waterarchives.org" rel="noreferrer nofollow">www.waterarchives.org</a> be credited as its source. For higher quality reproductions of the original physical version contact <a href="http://www.waterarchives.org" rel="noreferrer nofollow">www.waterarchives.org</a>, restrictions may apply.
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Source [CALIFORNIA-L-0027] North Sacramento Flood
Author WaterArchives.org from Las Cruces, New Mexico, United States
Camera location38° 36′ 12.08″ N, 121° 27′ 56.06″ W Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

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