Bank of America building damaged by the Long Beach earthquake, Southern California, 1933

Title: Bank of America building damaged by the Long Beach earthquake, Southern California, 1933
Date Created: March 1933
Date: 1933-03
Publisher: Los Angeles Times
Language: English
Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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.
View of a Bank Of America building damaged by the Long Beach earthquake. Parts of the corner facade are missing and the corner portion is partitioned off and supported with beams on the left. Signs read "... of America," "Open for Business," "Bank Building Open," and "Rothwell Optical Co."
Caption: Text from negative sleeve: Earthquakes, Long Beach, 1933

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

Repository: University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
ARK: ark:/21198/zz002dd15h
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Rights Country: US
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