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

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

Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

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.
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.

Caption

Text from negative sleeve: Earthquakes, Long Beach, 1933

Physical Description

Extent

1 photograph

Medium

b&w nitrate negative

Keywords

Genre

news photographs
cellulose nitrate film

Location

Long Beach (Calif.)

Longitude

33.776222

Latitude

-118.149161

Resource type

still image

Subjects

Earthquake damage--California--Long Beach
Earthquakes--California--Long Beach
Schools--California--Long Beach
Long Beach Earthquake, Calif., 1933