Automobiles on a road with wide cracks after the Long Beach earthquake, Southern California, 1933
Item Overview
- Title
- Automobiles on a road with wide cracks 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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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 from the back of a long line of automobiles on a road wide cracks in it after the Long Beach earthquake - Caption
- Text from negative sleeve: Earthquakes, Long Beach, 1933
Physical Description
- Extent
- 1 photograph
- Medium
- b&w nitrate negative
Keywords
- Genre
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news photographs
cellulose nitrate film - Location
- California, Southern
- Resource type
- still image
- Subjects
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Earthquakes--California
Long Beach Earthquake, Calif., 1933
Roads--California
Earthquake damage--California
Find This Item
- Repository
- University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
- ARK
- ark:/21198/zz002dd45z
- Manifest url
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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 .