Orange County Courthouse with roof damaged by the Long Beach earthquake, Santa Ana, 1933

Item Overview

Title

Orange County Courthouse with roof damaged by the Long Beach earthquake, Santa Ana, 1933

Date Created

March 1933

Date

1933-03

Publisher

Los Angeles Times

Language

No linguistic content

Collection

Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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.
Detail view of a the Orange County Courthouse damaged by the Long Beach earthquake. The gable has fallen away exposing the attic. Three workmen are visible along the roof line. The Courthouse is located at 211 W. Santa Ana Blvd.

Caption

Text from negative sleeve: Earthquakes, Long Beach, 1933
Text from newspaper caption: Workmen Already Repairing Orange County Courthouse, Santa Ana [Standalone photos: "Relief and Reconstruction Follow Devastation." Los Angeles Times, 13 Mar. 1933: 3]

Physical Description

Extent

1 photograph

Medium

b&w nitrate negative

Keywords

Genre

cellulose nitrate film
news photographs

Location

Santa Ana (Calif.)

Longitude

33.749977

Latitude

-117.869048

Resource type

still image

Subjects

Earthquakes--California--Santa Ana
Courthouses--California--Santa Ana
Long Beach Earthquake, Calif., 1933
Earthquake damage--California--Santa Ana