Outdoor relief area for victims of the Long Beach earthquake, Southern California, 1933
Item Overview
- Title
- Outdoor relief area for victims of the Long Beach earthquake, Southern California, 1933
- Date Created
- March 1933
- Date
- 1933-03
- Publisher
- Los Angeles Times
- Language
- No linguistic content
- Collection
- Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Notes
- Description
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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.
Photograph of an outdoor relief center to aid victims of the Long Beach earthquake set up in a dirt area between buildings, with 12 cots set up in 2 rows, people seated around a dining table area beneath a makeshift canvas awning, and a camp kitchen with a large boiling pot. A fire department automobile and another car are parked in the foreground
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
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Disaster relief--California
Long Beach Earthquake, Calif., 1933
Earthquakes--California
Find This Item
- Repository
- University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
- Local Identifier
- uclamss_1429_2072
- ARK
- ark:/21198/zz002dd0dn
- 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
-
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License .