Mound of oranges for survivors at a East 7th St. and Alamitos Ave. after the earthquake, Long Beach, 1933

Item Overview

Title

Mound of oranges for survivors at a East 7th St. and Alamitos Ave. after the earthquake, Long Beach, 1933

Date Created

March 1933

Date

1933-03

Publisher

Los Angeles Times

Language

No linguistic content

Collection

Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Notes

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.
View of a few people gathered around a large mound of oranges provided as relief for victims of the Long Beach earthquake at the corner of East Seventh Street and Alamitos Avenue. Other people are gathered along a row of tables and boxes in the background.

Caption

Text from newspaper caption: Oranges Free fo All in Temblor Stricken City: Golden Fruit Piled on Pavement in Long Beach. Scene at East Seventh and Alamitos streets, American Legion headquarters, shows product of California orchards heaped on thoroughfare [Standalone photo, Los Angeles Times, 13 Mar. 1933: 5]
Text from negative sleeve: Earthquakes, Long Beach, 1933

Physical Description

Extent

1 photograph

Medium

b&w nitrate negative

Keywords

Genre

news photographs
cellulose nitrate film

Location

Long Beach (Calif.)

Resource type

still image

Subjects

Disaster relief--California--Long Beach
Earthquakes--California--Long Beach
Long Beach Earthquake, Calif., 1933