Boys in line for food at an aid station after the Long Beach earthquake, Southern California, 1933

Title: Boys in line for food at an aid station after 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 boys and men in line next to a long table, holding plates of food at an aid station after the Long Beach earthquake.
Caption: Text from negative sleeve: Earthquakes, Long Beach, 1933

Repository: University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
Local Identifier: uclamss_1429_2165
ARK: ark:/21198/zz002dd3m6
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