Business in temporary quarters in the Oil Equipment and Engineering Exposition hall after the Long Beach earthquake, Compton, 1933

Item Overview

Title

Business in temporary quarters in the Oil Equipment and Engineering Exposition hall after the Long Beach earthquake, Compton, 1933

Date Created

March 1933

Date

1933-03

Publisher

Los Angeles Times

Language

No linguistic content

Collection

Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Notes

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.
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 a business moving into a temporary space at the Oil Equipment and Engineering Exposition hall, where all of the Compton Boulevard businesses re-located after the earthquake. Retail spaces are separated by partitions. In the closest partition, a man is cutting a long board supported by 2 saw horses and a 2 other men are inside near a ladder. Behind the man are 2 tall wooden shelving units. There are clerestory windows along each juncture of the stepped, exposed beam ceiling.

Caption

Text from negative sleeve: Earthquakes, Long Beach

Physical Description

Extent

1 photograph

Medium

b&w nitrate negative

Keywords

Genre

cellulose nitrate film
news photographs

Location

Compton (Calif.)

Longitude

33.903443

Latitude

-118.221534

Resource type

still image

Subjects

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