"Willys" automotive business heavily damaged by the Long Beach earthquake, Southern California, 1933
Item Overview
- Title
- "Willys" automotive business heavily damaged by the Long Beach earthquake, Southern California, 1933
- Date Created
- March 1933
- Date
- 1933-03
- Publisher
- Los Angeles Times
- Language
- English
- Collection
- Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Notes
- Description
- Photograph of a commercial building on a street corner housing "Willys" automotive business heavily damaged by the Long Beach earthquake. The roof is caved in and the ground is covered in brick rubble. Signs read "Willys," and "Genuine Nash Parts."
- Caption
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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.
Text from negative sleeve: Earthquakes, Long Beach, 1933
Physical Description
- Extent
- 1 photograph
- Medium
- b&w nitrate negative
Keywords
- Genre
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cellulose nitrate film
news photographs - Location
- California, Southern
- Resource type
- still image
- Subjects
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Long Beach Earthquake, Calif., 1933
Earthquakes--California
Earthquake damage--California
Find This Item
- Repository
- University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
- Local Identifier
- uclamss_1429_2149
- ARK
- ark:/21198/zz002dd32x
- Manifest url
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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 .