People in line holding plates of food after the Long Beach earthquake, Southern California, 1933
Item Overview
- Title
- People in line holding plates of food 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
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View of a line of people holding plates of food on the left, provided by people behind tables and standing next of boxes of supplies on the right after the Long Beach earthquake.
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.
Physical Description
- Extent
- 1 photograph
- Medium
- b&w nitrate negative
Keywords
- Genre
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cellulose nitrate film
news photographs - Location
- California, Southern
- Resource type
- still image
- Subjects
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Disaster relief--California
Long Beach Earthquake, Calif., 1933
Disaster victims--California
Earthquakes--California
Find This Item
- Repository
- University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
- Local Identifier
- uclamss_1429_2157
- ARK
- ark:/21198/zz002dd3b2
- 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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This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License .