Jefferson Junior High School destroyed by an earthquake, Long Beach, 1933
Item Overview
- Title
- Jefferson Junior High School destroyed by an earthquake, Long Beach, 1933
- Architect
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Allison, James Edward, 1870-1955
Anderson, Carl Alfred Herman, 1875-1957
Allred, James V., 1899-1959 - Date Created
- March 1033
- Date
- 1933-03
- Publisher
- Los Angeles Times
- Language
- No linguistic content
- Collection
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Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections
Notes
- Description
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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 Jefferson Junior High School after it was destroyed by the Long Beach earthquake. In the center is a gated, arched entryway flanked by columns.
Jefferson Junior High School, located on Euclid Ave. between 7th and 8th Streets, was designed by architects Allison and Allison with Carl Alfred Herman Anderson and completed in 1922. It was destroyed by the 1933 earthquake.
Physical Description
- Extent
- 1 photograph
- Medium
- b&w nitrate negative
Keywords
- Genre
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news photographs
cellulose nitrate film - Location
- Long Beach (Calif.)
- Longitude
- 33.776222
- Latitude
- -118.149161
- Resource type
- still image
- Subjects
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Earthquake damage--California--Long Beach
Earthquakes--California--Long Beach
Schools--California--Long Beach
Long Beach Earthquake, Calif., 1933
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- Repository
- University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
- Local Identifier
- uclamss_1429_2090
- ARK
- ark:/21198/zz002dd11f
- Manifest url
Access Condition
- Rights statement
- copyrighted
- Rights Holder
- UCLA Charles E. Young Research Library Department of Special Collections, A1713 Young Research Library, Box 951575, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575. E-mail: spec-coll@library.ucla.edu. Phone: (310)825-4988
- Rights Country
- US
- Funding Note
- Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.
- License
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