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Title: Compton City Hall, 1933 earthquake
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued: 1933
Contributing Institution: Los Angeles Public Library
Collection: Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
Rights Information: Images available for reproduction and use. Please see the Ordering & Use page at http://tessa.lapl.org/OrderingUse.html for additional information.
Description: Powerful steel jaws of a machine bite away a ruined pillar and other wreckage of the Compton City Hall, damaged by the earthquake, thus clearing the way to build anew under the program of speedy reconstruction. Photo dated March 14, 1933.
Type: image
Format: 1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00047505
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box 4630
CARL0000051122
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/16804
Subject: Compton City Hall (Compton, Calif.)
Long Beach Earthquake, 1933
City halls--California--Compton
Buildings--Earthquake effects--California--Compton
Cranes, derricks, etc.--California--Compton
Earthquake damage--California--Compton
Earthquakes--California, Southern
Demolition--California--Compton
Lost architecture--California--Compton
Compton (Calif.)
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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