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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 Photographs Collection

Description:: Exterior view of an institutional or commercial building after the Long Beach earthquake. The central portion of the parapet has fallen off.
Date:: March 1933
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographs 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 Photographs Collection

Description:: Roy Watkins, who worked for the Angelus Temple headed by Aimee Semple McPherson, and Everett Davis walk down the street.
Date:: [1932]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographs Collection

Description:: Related to Los Angeles Times photo group, "Greatest Armada in Nation's History Passes in Review; Navy Parades Strength in Sea and Air Tableau; Hundreds of Ships and Aircraft Pass in Stately Review Before Crowds Masses on Shore." 20 Apr. 1932: A1.
Date:: April 19, 1932
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographs 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 Photographs Collection

Description:: Photograph of a commercial or institutional building with a Romanesque revival style facade of rusticated stone damaged by the Long Beach earthquake. There is a wooden tripod with lifting cables on the roof and the building is cordoned off with saw horses along the street in front. A truck loaded with rubble and with a sign reading "J. F. Pierce Dump Truck Contractor" is parked in front of the saw horses.
Date:: March 1933
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographs 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 Photographs Collection

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