Outdoor relief area for victims of the Long Beach earthquake, Southern California, 1933

Title: Outdoor relief area for victims of the Long Beach earthquake, Southern California, 1933
Date Created: March 1933
Date: 1933-03
Publisher: Los Angeles Times
Language: No linguistic content
Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description: The Long Beach earthquake of 1933 took place on March 10, with a magnitude of 6.4, causing widespread damage to buildings throughout Southern California. The epicenter was offshore, southeast of Long Beach on the Newport-Inglewood Fault. An estimated fifty million dollars' worth of property damage resulted, and 120 lives were lost.
Photograph of relief area on an open grassy space after the Long Beach earthquake. Five men are gathered at a small table in the foreground, with another table behind them, and more people are gathered at a tent and in the background the left. Two coffee pots and one cooking pot are on a table next to the tent.
Caption: Text from negative sleeve: Earthquakes, Long Beach, 1933

Genre: cellulose nitrate film
news photographs
Location: California, Southern
Resource type: still image
Subjects: Long Beach Earthquake, Calif., 1933
Earthquakes--California
Disaster relief--California

Repository: University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
Local Identifier: uclamss_1429_2079
ARK: ark:/21198/zz002dd0n8
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Rights Country: US
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