Polytechnic High School auditorium after the earthquake, Long Beach, 1933
Item Overview
- Title
- Polytechnic High School auditorium after the earthquake, Long Beach, 1933
- Date Created
- March 1933
- Publisher
- Los Angeles Times
- Language
- No linguistic content
- Collection
- Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Notes
- Description
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Exterior view of the auditorium and another building of Polytechnic High School 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. - 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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cellulose nitrate film
news photographs - Subjects
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Schools--California--Long Beach
Earthquakes--California--Long Beach
Earthquake damage--California--Long Beach
Long Beach Earthquake, Calif., 1933 - Location
- Long Beach (Calif.)
- Longitude
- 33.786049
- Latitude
- -118.185017
- Resource type
- still image
Find This Item
- Repository
- University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
- Local identifier
- uclamss_1429_2203
- ARK
- ark:/21198/zz002dd4xb
- 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
- License
- https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
- 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 .