Workers engaged in reconstruction in front of a building after the Long Beach earthquake, Southern California, 1933

Title: Workers engaged in reconstruction in front of a building after 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

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 worker sawing a large wooden beam supported by saw horses next to a street curb. Another worker with a smaller wooden beam is beside him and earthquake debris can be seen on the ground. A man in an apron and folded arms in the background on the right watches. Behind him is a 2 story wooden building and houses are in visible in the distance.
Caption: Text from negative sleeve: Earthquakes, Long Beach

Genre: cellulose nitrate film
news photographs
Location: California, Southern
Resource type: still image
Subjects: Long Beach Earthquake, Calif., 1933
Earthquakes--California
Disaster relief--California

Repository: University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
Local Identifier: uclamss_1429_2162
ARK: ark:/21198/zz002dd3hn
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