Sidewalk relief station after the Long Beach earthquake, Southern California, 1933

Item Overview

Title

Sidewalk relief 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

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.
Related the newspaper article: "Navy Relief Extended: Sailing of Fleet Postponed: Admiral Leigh Orders Delay of Week to Allow 2000 Sailors Continue Aid." Los Angeles Times, 13 Mar. 1933: 1
Photograph of a relief station set up on a sidewalk following the Long Beach earthquake. A truck is parked on the left, 20 large bottles of drinking water are stacked on the right, and people are gathered around an outdoor stove made of brick where a sailor lifts the lid of a cooking pot and another sailor stands on the right.

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
Disaster relief--California