Theodore Roosevelt School heavily damaged by an earthquake, Long Beach, 1933

Item Overview

Title

Theodore Roosevelt School heavily damaged by an earthquake, Long Beach, 1933

Architect

Austin, W. Horace (William Horace), 1881-1942
Austin, John C. W. (John Corneby Wilson), 1870-1963

Date Created

March 1933

Date

1933-03

Publisher

Los Angeles Times

Language

No linguistic content

Collection

Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Notes

Description

Photograph of Theodore Roosevelt School with earthquake damage visible in the 2nd story of the projecting centerpiece, with the rubble in a heap on the ground in front of the arched double doorway.
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.
The first Theodore Roosevelt School in Long Beach was designed by architects John Austin and W. Horace Austin (not related) in a Spanish Renaissance Revival style and was constructed in 1920-1921. It was heavily damaged by the 1933 earthquake and had to be torn down.

Caption

Text from negative sleeve: Earthquakes, Long Beach, 1933

Physical Description

Extent

1 photograph

Medium

b&w nitrate negative

Keywords

Genre

news photographs
cellulose nitrate film

Names

Theodore Roosevelt Elementary School (Long Beach, Calif.)

Location

California, Southern

Resource type

still image

Subjects

Earthquake damage--California--Long Beach
Earthquakes--California--Long Beach
Schools--California--Long Beach
Long Beach Earthquake, Calif., 1933