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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.
Date:: March 1933
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: Photograph of parents and a young girl at a teller booth in a temporary branch of Bank of America after the Long Beach earthquake. The location is the Oil Equipment and Engineering Expositiion hall in Compton where all of the Compton Boulevard businesses re-located temporarily after the earthquake. There is a partition with a bare light bulb attached to it behind the long teller booth and an exposed beam ceiling with suspended industrial light fixtures high above. A framed "Bank of America" poster stating "Resources" and "Liabilities" as of December 1932 is on an easel on the left above another framed poster stating "United like strands of a mighty cable...410 Branches united in strength, spirit and service. Each branch has the strength of All...".
Date:: March 1933
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: View of a barber wearing an apron and knee-high rain boots standing in front of his shop next to a barber pole on a rain-flooded street. A wooden plank extends from the step of the shop to the right; a weed-covered open space is on the left.
Date:: [1927?]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: View of 2 automobiles driving down a rain-flooded commercial street. A signs on painted on building reads "Paints, Wall Paper, Whitby's Painting & Decorating," and "Orange St."
Date:: [1927?]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: With a wide smile Evelyn stands surrounded by multiple bouquets of all different kinds of flowers.
Date:: February 7, 1936
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Related to the newspaper article: "Plans Laid At Compton To Carry On: Chamber Group Meets at Ruins of City Hall to Map Program." Los Angeles Times, 13 Mar. 1933: 5.
Date:: March 1933
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Photographer's note: "9th grader Devell Howard is towered over by other members of the Compton H.S. band as they entertain for Berry Gordy at Compton City Hall."
Date:: December 7, 1988
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Galvez, Jose
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: The Olive Street Bridge, a wooden truss bridge near Compton, was constructed in 1920 and spanned the Los Angeles River.
Date:: [between 1920-1945]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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