Workers clearing debris from a commercial street after the Long Beach earthquake, Southern California, 1933

Item Overview

Title

Workers clearing debris from a commercial street after the Long Beach earthquake, Southern California, 1933

Date Created

1933

Date

1933

Publisher

Los Angeles Times

Language

English

Collection

Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Notes

Description

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 of a commercial street with heavily damaged buildings after the Long Beach earthquake with the exterior wall of the 2nd floor of a building completely gone. A power shovel is posed above a dump truck and next to a pile of brick and other debris. Signage on the trucks reads "Owl Truck & Materials Co." and an additional sign on the steam shovel truck reads "E. 10." One man is standing on the dump truck and 4 others are across the street. Seven other men are in the background. Signs on buildings in the background read "Kress 5-10-125 cent store," "Western Union," "Compton Hardware Co.," "Fargo Coffee & Tea Co."

Caption

Text from negative sleeve: Earthquakes, Long Beach, 1933

Physical Description

Extent

1 photograph

Medium

b&w nitrate negative

Keywords

Genre

cellulose nitrate film
news photographs

Location

California, Southern

Resource type

still image

Subjects

Power shovels--California
Long Beach Earthquake, Calif., 1933
Earthquakes--California
Earthquake damage--California
Disaster relief--California