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Flood damage related to 1910 fire, Placer Creek Item Info

Title:
Flood damage related to 1910 fire, Placer Creek
Photographer:
Swan, K.D.
Date Created (ISO Standard):
1937
Description:
Photo text: 'Flood damage in Wallace, Idaho April 1938, caused by Placer Creek. The watershed of Placer Creek was burned by forest fires in 1910. Since that time Wallace has been menaced by periodic spring freshnets, caused by the rapid melting of deep snow on denuded slopes.'
Subjects:
big burn flood Big Creek Valley creek national forests fire
Location:
Wallace;Idaho;United States
Latitude:
47.473597
Longitude:
-115.926582
Source:
NARA College Park RG 95; Box 480
Source Identifier:
NARA10StlPht2
USFS Number:
361726
Type:
image;stillimage
Format:
image/jpeg

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Preferred Citation:
"Flood damage related to 1910 fire, Placer Creek", Archival Idaho Photograph Collection, University of Idaho Library Digital Collections, https://www.lib.uidaho.edu/digital/archivalidaho/items/archivalidaho482.html
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Rights:
Material determined to be in Public Domain based on date of publication. Material made available by the University of Idaho Library. For more information; please contact University of Idaho Library Special Collections and Archives Department at libspec@uidaho.edu.
Standardized Rights:
https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/