Merchandise stacked outside Richfield Products building, damaged by the Long Beach earthquake, Southern California, 1933

Title: Merchandise stacked outside Richfield Products 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: View of tables with boxes of basic necessities including butter, graham crackers, toilet paper, and canned goods outside of a brick building that has lost the top rows of bricks after the Long Beach earthquake. One man, in charge, talks with 2 other people and a couple examines some goods on a table. A sign on the building reads "Richfield Products."
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
Location: California, Southern
Resource type: still image
Subjects: Disaster relief--California
Long Beach Earthquake, Calif., 1933
Earthquake damage--California

Repository: University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
Local Identifier: uclamss_1429_2143
ARK: ark:/21198/zz002dd2vb
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