School (?) or mansion (?) damaged by the Long Beach earthquake, Southern California, 1933

Title: School (?) or mansion (?) damaged by 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: A house of mansion to the right of this building appears in image ark no. 21198/zz002dd48h
Exterior view of a mansion (?) or school (?) with cracks through the facade from the 2nd story to the base. The facade is ornamented with pilasters and a gable and a central dome is visible behind the gable.
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.
Caption: Text from negative sleeve: Earthquakes, Long Beach, 1933

Genre: cellulose nitrate film
news photographs
Location: California, Southern
Resource type: still image
Subjects: Long Beach Earthquake, Calif., 1933
Earthquake damage--California
Earthquakes--California

Repository: University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
Local Identifier: uclamss_1429_2185
ARK: ark:/21198/zz002dd491
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