View of the earthquake-damaged San Marcos Building at the south corner of State and Anapamu Streets. The State Street portion of the building is in view. The corner of the building was demolished by the earthquake and the rubble on the ground is as high as the 1st story of the building. Two men stand between a tractor-mounted crane and an automobile.
Overview of locomotive accident from elevated angle, with both sides of the railroad track visible. Photograph possibly shot from atop train car roof. Dozens of bystanders--men, women, and children--look on from either side of the derailed locomotive. A mechanical crane sits in front of two derailed engines. They are respectively numbered, "2451" and "4355." The crane is most likely there to move the wreckage. Painted onto the crane are the words, "Return to LA-Wrecker," and "Taylor Yards." Further back, a view of the town of Glendale can be seen, with power lines, small houses, white picket fences, and mountains. The Southern Pacific Railroad locomotive had collided with a seven-ton sand truck on the train tracks in Glendale. A dozen people were injured, with no fatalities.
A similar photograph appears on the Photo Standalone page titled "Tehachapi Pass Railway Tunnel Mouth Blocked as Train Piles Up in Ravine." Los Angeles Times, 19 Mar. 1937: 22.
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.
On June 29, 1925 at 6:42 am a major earthquake hit the area of Santa Barbara. It was 19 seconds in duration and registered 6.8 on the Richter magnitude scale. The downtown of Santa Barbara was destroyed, the Sheffield Dam collapsed, and thirteen people died. The facade of the Mission Santa Barbara was severely damaged and lost its statues. Three persons thought to shut off the town electricity and gas, thereby preventing catastrophic fire. The city was rebuilt in a unified Spanish Colonial Revival style in 1925-1929.
A similar photograph of the construction of the All American Canal appears with the caption: “Like some unbelievable monster of the machine age is this enormous dragline working on the all-American canal eighteen miles from Calexico. This view taken from the top of the control house shows the enormous crane that handles the eight-cubic yard sand bucket. The canal cut is sixty feet deep here. In two months this dragline has moved 344,000 cubic yards of sand,” Los Angeles Times, 16 Mar. 1936: 10
Picture of a crane at an excavation project. A sign on the crane reads "Bucyrus-Erie, Evansville, Ind". One man operates the machinery while another man walks below.
At center, a large sand bucket sits on the desert floor. It is viewed from its side. A worker stands on the ground beside it at left. He stands with his back to camera. To the right of him, another worker stands atop the gigantic bucket. He faces right and appears to hold welding equipment. Chains, cables and pulleys attach to the bucket from above. Behind the bucket, at left, the lattice of a large crane stretches across the image on a steep upward angle to the right.