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Title: Damaged building, Compton
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Photographers Photo Collection;
Creator: Yocom, Stephen T
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: Title supplied by cataloger.
As a result of the Long Beach Earthquake, two tents have been pitched on the lawn outside of a damaged Renaissance revival structure, perhaps a school or municipal building, in Compton. On the left are two large homes that appear to have not sustained any damage.
Type: image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w ;7 x 11 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00110627
Los Angeles Photographers Collection;
GPC_b92_f2_i8
CARL0005246842
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/116578
Subject: Long Beach Earthquake, 1933
Earthquakes--California, Southern
Buildings--Earthquake effects--California--Compton
Debris--California--Compton
Earthquake damage--California--Compton
Tents--California--Compton
Lawns--California--Compton
Dwellings--California--Compton
Renaissance revival (Architecture)--California--Compton
Compton (Calif.)

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