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Building damaged by the Long Beach earthquake undergoing demolition, Southern California, 1933

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
Building damaged by the Long Beach earthquake undergoing demolition, Southern California, 1933

Buildings damaged and destroyed by the Long Beach earthquake, Southern California, 1933

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
Buildings damaged and destroyed by the Long Beach earthquake, Southern California, 1933

Major Eldo A. Peterman and Captain George C. Sherwood, California, circa 1935

Description:
At left, Major Eldo A. Peterman stands on the wing of an airplane. He stands with his back to camera and faces right. The Major also wears his flying uniform, including a parachute which hangs down his back. To the right of him, Captain George C. Sherwood sits in the cockpit of the same plane. He smiles as he looks towards Major Peterman. The plane is viewed close-up and from its side; it faces towards the left. Along the side of the plane, the number 4 is painted as is a silhouetted image of the California bear. The plane appears to sit within a hangar; the pilots' shadows cast onto a ceiling visible in the distance.
Date:
[between July-September 1935]
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections
Major Eldo A. Peterman and Captain George C. Sherwood, California, circa 1935

Curb-side produce store in front of a building damaged by the Long Beach earthquake, Southern California, 1933

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
Curb-side produce store in front of a building damaged by the Long Beach earthquake, Southern California, 1933

Steam shovel digging a path for the San Diego-Yuma line of San Diego and Arizona Railroad line, California (Southern), 1919

Description:
Steam shovel digging path for San Diego-Yuma line of San Diego and Arizona Railroad line. Construction for the railway line was anticipated to be completed the afternoon of November 15, 1919. This photograph is similar to a photograph that appears with the article "GOLD SPIKE WILL MAKE RAIL DREAM TRUE.: John D. Spreckels to Drive it This Afternoon and Imperial's Steel Link with Tidewater Vision of Half a Century, will Become an Actuality; Road Cost Eighteen Million Dollars; Plan Week of Celebration. BUILDING OF SAN DIEGO AND ARIZONA RAILROAD TO BE FINISHED TODAY. COMPLETE CONSTRUCTION OF NEW RAILROAD TODAY; Service on San Diego-Arizona Line to Start December 1, When Week of Celebration Commences," Los Angeles Times, 15 Nov. 1919: II1.
Date:
1919
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections
Steam shovel digging a path for the San Diego-Yuma line of San Diego and Arizona Railroad line, California (Southern), 1919