Oil Equipment and Engineering Exposition hall after the Long Beach earthquake, Compton, 1933
Item Overview
- Title
- Oil Equipment and Engineering Exposition hall after the Long Beach earthquake, Compton, 1933
- Date Created
- March 1933
- Date
- 1933-03
- Publisher
- Los Angeles Times
- Language
- English
- Collection
- Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Notes
- Description
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Distant view of the "Oil Equipment and Engineering Exposition" hall, identified by a sign on the facade, with automobiles parked in front and along the side, after the Long Beach earthquake. The commercial buildings of Compton Boulevard were ruined by the earthquake; the displaced businesses relocated here a few days after the earthquake, arranged in the same order in which they had resided on Compton Blvd. The exposition building appears to be larger than a football field and the roof on both sides steps up in height 3 times with clerestory windows at each level. The height increases are expressed decoratively by the shape of the facade. The exposition hall was located the intersection of N Alameda St. and E Rosecrans Ave.
Related to the newspaper article: "Plans Laid At Compton To Carry On: Chamber Group Meets at Ruins of City Hall to Map Program." Los Angeles Times, 13 Mar. 1933: 5.
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.
Physical Description
- Extent
- 1 photograph
- Medium
- b&w nitrate negative
Keywords
- Genre
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cellulose nitrate film
news photographs - Location
- Compton (Calif.)
- Longitude
- 33.903443
- Latitude
- -118.221534
- Resource type
- still image
- Subjects
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Disaster relief--California--Compton
Earthquakes--California--Compton
Exhibition buildings--California--Compton
Long Beach Earthquake, Calif., 1933
Find This Item
- Repository
- University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
- Local Identifier
- uclamss_1429_2098
- ARK
- ark:/21198/zz002dd19k
- Manifest url
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 .