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Title: Waiting to call home
Creator: Winstead (#62)
Date Created and/or Issued: 1933-03-11
Contributing Institution: Long Beach Public Library
Collection: Long Beach Photos
Rights Information: For information about copyright and ordering images from the LBPL Digital Archive, see https://www.longbeach.gov/library/research/long-beach-history-and-special-collections/
Description: A large crowd of men and women stand under palm trees; all are attentive to what is going on in the small temporary building in the background. One man with a megaphone at upper right is speaking to the crowd. Etched onto the front of this image is the note: "Waiting to telephone, morning after earthquake; Long Beach; 3-11-33." DATE NOTES: Etched onto image front. ORIG. IMAGE: 3.5" x 5.5 sepia matte real photo postcard mounted on library stock. NEGATIVE: No. KEYWORDS: Fashion, disasters. (ss)
Type: image
Format: image/jpeg
Identifier: LBPL_1702.tiff
http://lbpl.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p17164coll3/id/3119
Subject: Earthquakes--California
Relation: Earthquakes - 1933

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