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

Description:: View of the upper portions of a row of buildings with damage from the Long Beach earthquake. The 2nd building from the left has a sign reading "Bon Ton Market," and the building on the right has a sign reading "Consolidated Title Insurance Company."
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 school (?) building damaged by the Long Beach earthquake. Second story exterior brick walls have fallen. In the street in front a workman digs next to a sign reading "Danger, Excavation." A woman and child walk on the sidewalk. A street sign painted on the curb reads "E. 12th St."
Date:: March 1933
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Photograph of workers re-glazing large windows in a building identified by a "Bank of America" sign after the Long Beach earthquake. A worker sits on the sill of an empty window, scaffolding is in front of the window beside it, and another worker is on the sidewalk. Four workers are in a company truck with a sign which reads "W. P. Fuller & Co., Paints Varnishes Lacquers Glass," and signs on 3 newly-installed windows read "Fuller Glass Furnished by W. P. Fuller & Co." Two well-dressed men and one well-dressed woman walk in the street.
Date:: March 1933
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: View of earthquake-damaged commercial buildings and a pile of building debris after the Long Beach earthquake. The sign on the building reads "The Paris Store," and "Quitting Business."
Date:: March 1933
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Photograph of an automobile parked next to a brick building and half-buried in brick rubble after the Long Beach earth quake. A group of men and one woman pose with the car.
Date:: March 1933
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: View of a steam shovel clearing building debris after the Long Beach earthquake with 4 policemen in the foreground and others in the background. A building missing its facade is in the background.
Date:: March 1933
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Photograph of a school (?) building damaged by the Long Beach earthquake. The upper areas of many exterior brick walls have fallen to the ground.
Date:: March 1933
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: View of a cloud of dust emanating from a building as it collapses during demolition. Apparently the building was damaged during the Long Beach earthquake. Four men watch with a crane arm and power shovel visible on the right.
Date:: March 1933
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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