Genre: cellulose nitrate film / Language: No linguistic content / Location: California, Southern / Subject: Long Beach Earthquake, Calif., 1933 - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

Description:: Photograph of men searching the rubble of a building heavily damaged by the Long Beach earthquake.
Date:: March 1933
Resource Type:: still image
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.
Date:: March 1933
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: View of workers in front of a brick building damaged by the Long Beach earthquake sweeping fallen bricks into the street.
Date:: March 1933
Resource Type:: still image
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.
Date:: March 1933
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Photograph of a commercial building on a street corner housing "Willys" automotive business heavily damaged by the Long Beach earthquake. Two automobiles are visible in the showroom and an automobile parked in front is covered in a pile of brick rubble. A window sign reads "Willys."
Date:: March 1933
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: View of a building facade with broken windows and building rubble beneath the central doorway, with 2 men looking up toward a mattress jutting out from a 2nd floor window.
Date:: March 1933
Resource Type:: still image
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.
Date:: March 1933
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Photograph of 2 teenage girls seated in director's chairs outside of a tent in front of a house after the Long Beach earthquake. a bicycle is on the walkway to the house on the left.
Date:: March 1933
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Photograph of 2 men wearing badges (policemen of detectives?) crouched next to a large box (?) containing jewelry as they hold jewelry items in their hands. The negative sleeve annotation suggests this is somehow related to the Long Beach earthquake.
Date:: March 1933
Resource Type:: still image
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.
Date:: March 1933
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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