Genre: cellulose nitrate film and news photographs / Location: California, Southern / Subject: Disaster relief--California and Earthquake damage--California - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

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.
Date:: 1933
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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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.
Date:: March 1933
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: View of tables with boxes of basic necessities including butter, graham crackers, toilet paper, and canned goods outside of a brick building that has lost the top rows of bricks after the Long Beach earthquake. One man, in charge, talks with 2 other people and a couple examines some goods on a table. A sign on the building reads "Richfield Products."
Date:: March 1933
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Men gathered near trucks and brick rubble piles between trucks and next to building that lost its facade during the Long Beach earthquake. The sing on one truck reads "Owl Truck and Materials Co."
Date:: 1933
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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