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Title: Earthquake telegram service
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Creator: Keystone Photo Service
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: Moments after the first big shock on March 10, 1933, William Ryan (arrow), later Copy Editor of the Herald-Express, recalls that people took to the safety of the open street, then watched Western Union employees carry on business as usual at curbside.
Type: Image
Format: 1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00057401
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box 4630 Long Beach Earthquake
CARL0000059297
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/21211
Subject: Ryan, William
Western Union Telegraph Company
Earthquakes--California, Southern
Telegraph--California--Long Beach
Assistance in emergencies--California--Long Beach
Long Beach (Calif.)
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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