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Title: Earthquake damage to Superior Ice Cream
Date Created and/or Issued: 1933
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: This photograph shows a portion of the damage in Long Beach from the March 10, 1933 Long Beach Earthquake. Shown here is the Superior Ice Cream Company building located on 3027 E. Anaheim Street. Part of the brick wall of the second floor has collapsed and debris can be seen through the first floor windows. Two men (construction/repair crew?) carry lumber along the sidewalk and a sign at the entrance of the building says "Open for Business' All Trucks Operating". DATE NOTES: Date noted on back. ORIG. IMAGE:4.5" X 7" Black and white photograph mounted on cardstock. NEGATIVE: No. KEYWORDS: Facade, temblor, quake, St., East, seismic event, occupations.
Type: image
Format: image/jpeg
Identifier: LBPL_1780.tiff
http://lbpl.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p17164coll3/id/3456
Subject: Earthquakes--California
Relation: Earthquakes - 1933 - Business Firms

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