Subject: Long Beach Earthquake, Calif., 1933 - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

Description:: Photograph of a makeshift bank or office set up after the Long Beach earthquake in a small wooden building with an open front and awning. Men are lined up on the right and 2 women are writing at a long plank table. There is earthquake debris in the foreground.
Date:: March 1933
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Photograph of parents and a young girl at a teller booth in a temporary branch of Bank of America after the Long Beach earthquake. The location is the Oil Equipment and Engineering Expositiion hall in Compton where all of the Compton Boulevard businesses re-located temporarily after the earthquake. There is a partition with a bare light bulb attached to it behind the long teller booth and an exposed beam ceiling with suspended industrial light fixtures high above. A framed "Bank of America" poster stating "Resources" and "Liabilities" as of December 1932 is on an easel on the left above another framed poster stating "United like strands of a mighty cable...410 Branches united in strength, spirit and service. Each branch has the strength of All...".
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:: 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:: Two men in aprons carry a heavy pot between them on a pole at an outdoor aid relief kitchen after the Long Beach earthquake. A large black metal box behind them might be an oven. The ground is strewn with boxes and houses are in the background.
Date:: March 1933
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Photograph of a small wooden building with an open front and several telephone lines attached to the roof, with 6 men and women gathered outside including 2 policemen, one man making a telephone call and one technician working with cables.
Date:: March 1933
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Photograph of a business moving into a temporary space at the Oil Equipment and Engineering Exposition hall, where all of the Compton Boulevard businesses re-located after the earthquake. Retail spaces are separated by partitions. In the closest partition, a man is cutting a long board supported by 2 saw horses and a 2 other men are inside near a ladder. Behind the man are 2 tall wooden shelving units. There are clerestory windows along each juncture of the stepped, exposed beam ceiling.
Date:: March 1933
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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