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.
Lady Beaverbrook (left) and her daughter Janet Aitken sit in wicker chairs in the hotel hallway, with room 419 on their right. Lady Beaverbrook looks directly at the camera, with her right arm on the chair's armrest. Janet sits with her legs crossed and her eyes cast to the left and downward. A similar image taken on the same occasion appears with the article "Peeress Visits Southland: Here With Daughter to Regain Health," Los Angeles Times, 12 Jan. 1927: A1.
Lady Beaverbrook (left) and daughter Jane Aitken stand in a hotel hallway between room 418 and Room 419 with two wicker chairs behind them. Each wears a dropwaist dress and a pearl necklace. This image appears with the article "Peeress Visits Southland: Here With Daughter to Regain Health," Los Angeles Times, 12 Jan. 1927: A1.