Franklin Junior High School destroyed by the earthquake, Long Beach, 1933

Title: Franklin Junior High School destroyed by the earthquake, Long Beach, 1933
Date Created: March 1933
Date: 1933-03
Publisher: Los Angeles Times
Language: No linguistic content
Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description: View of Franklin Junior High School destroyed by the Long Beach earthquake. The school, rebuilt, is located at 540 Cerritos Ave.
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.
Caption: Text from negative sleeve: Earthquakes, Long Beach, 1933

Genre: cellulose nitrate film
news photographs
Names: Franklin Classical Middle School (Long Beach, Calif.)
Location: Long Beach (Calif.)
Longitude: 33.773707
Latitude: -118.177936
Resource type: still image
Subjects: Schools--California--Long Beach
Long Beach Earthquake, Calif., 1933
Earthquake damage--California--Long Beach
Earthquakes--California--Long Beach

Repository: University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
Local Identifier: uclamss_1429_2096
ARK: ark:/21198/zz002dd17j
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