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Title: Earthquake radio service
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Creator: Bentley, Frank
Date Created and/or Issued: 1933
Contributing Institution: Los Angeles Public Library
Collection: Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
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Description: Youth on March 16, 1933 received high praise for its service in the 1933 Long Beach earthquake emergency and rehabilitation. This amateur short-wave radio station in Bixby Park, Long Beach, sent more than 1200 messages free of charge for the public and received hundreds of replies from all over the world. Left to right, James Johnson of W6GJA; Myron Fuller, head of the station; L. P. Abarta of W6BIF; J. F. Land of W6GID; and Billy Miller, Boy Scout acting as messenger.
Type: image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00057399
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box 4630 Long Beach Quake Misc.
CARL0000059292
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/21206
Subject: Long Beach Earthquake, 1933
Earthquakes--California, Southern
Youth--California--Long Beach
Radio--California--Long Beach
Assistance in emergencies--California--Long Beach
Long Beach (Calif.)
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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