Methodist Episcopal Church heavily damaged during the Long Beach earthquake, Southern California, 1933

Item Overview

Title

Methodist Episcopal Church heavily damaged during 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
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 Methodist Episcopal Church heavily damaged during the Long Beach earthquake. The stairways are filled with building rubble and the roof is destroyed. A sign to the left of the doorway reads "...Methodist Episcopal Church..."A sign above the doorway reads "'The Rock,' Powerful Bible Drama, Here Sunday Evening Mar. 12 - 7:30 pm. And a painted sing on the low retaining wall at the corner reads "E. 11th St."

Caption

Text from negative sleeve: Earthquakes, Long Beach, 1933

Physical Description

Extent

1 photograph

Medium

b&w nitrate negative

Keywords

Genre

cellulose nitrate film
news photographs

Location

California, Southern

Resource type

still image

Subjects

Long Beach Earthquake, Calif., 1933
Earthquakes--California
Earthquake damage--California
Churches--California