Man and woman conducting business (?) on the street after the Long Beach earthquake, Southern California, 1933
Item Overview
- Title
- Man and woman conducting business (?) on the street after the Long Beach earthquake, Southern California, 1933
- Date Created
- March 1933
- Date
- 1933-03
- Publisher
- Los Angeles Times
- Language
- English
- Collection
- Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Notes
- Description
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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 a woman and man at a table in on a commercial street where the buildings have been damaged by the Long Beach earthquake. The sidewalks and gutter are littered with bricks fallen from the buildings. There are objects on the table, a panel rests against the table, and a desk lamp is beneath the table. A sign in the window of a storefront reads "Brost Shop..."
Physical Description
- Extent
- 1 photograph
- Medium
- b&w nitrate negative
Keywords
- Genre
-
news photographs
cellulose nitrate film - Location
- California, Southern
- Resource type
- still image
- Subjects
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Earthquakes--California
Long Beach Earthquake, Calif., 1933
Find This Item
- Repository
- University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
- Local Identifier
- uclamss_1429_2100
- ARK
- ark:/21198/zz002dd1cm
- Manifest url
Access Condition
- Rights statement
- copyrighted
- Rights Holder
- UCLA Charles E. Young Research Library Department of Special Collections, A1713 Young Research Library, Box 951575, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575. E-mail: spec-coll@library.ucla.edu. Phone: (310)825-4988
- Rights Country
- US
- Funding Note
- Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.
- License
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This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License .