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Title
Earthquake damage to Watrous Garage building
Date Created and/or Issued
circa 1933
Contributing Institution
California State University, Dominguez Hills, Archives and Special Collections
Collection
South Bay Digital Collection
Rights Information
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Description
Black-and-white photograph presumably taken in the aftermath of the 1933 Long Beach Earthquake. Photograph depicts extensive damage that was sustained to a building. On the top of a building is a sign for Watrous Garage Union 70.
The 1933 Long Beach Earthquake Photographs Collection contains 62 black-and-white photographs taken in the aftermath of an earthquake that hit near Long Beach, California in 1933. Images in this collection show damaged buildings including a court house, O.A. Haley's, Jensens Bakery, Whittier school, St. Anthony's Church, W.M.F Lutz Co.,Geo E. Nygaard realtor, Hulburt Drugs,as well as images of cracks in the ground. Most of the images were taken in Santa Ana; Long Beach; and Compton, California.
Type
image
Format
Photographs
image/jpeg
1 photograph; 3.25 x 4.75 in.
Identifier
lbe_01_02_014
http://cdm16855.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/southbay/id/4077
Language
English
Subject
Earthquake damage
Earthquakes
Natural disasters
Buildings
Source
1933 Long Beach Earthquake Photographs;
Relation
South Bay Digital Collection
https://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/c80r9w99/

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