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Title: Compton, California
Date Created and/or Issued: 1933
Contributing Institution: Huntington Library
Collection: Photographs
Rights Information: For information on using Huntington Library materials, please see Reproductions of Huntington Library Holdings: https://www.huntington.org/library-rights-permissions
Description: Image of people walking in the street of a business district in Compton, California, with buildings in ruins and pile of rubble after the Long Beach earthquake of March 10, 1933. Signs on some of the buildings read "home of Nygaard Electric Co.," and "Keyzer's Bakery."
"Compton California"--text, on item. "Compton Quake"--text, handwritten in pencil on verso. Title and date transcribed from item. Compton was affected by what came to be called the "Long Beach earthquake" of March 10, 1933.
Type: image
Format: image/jpeg
Extent: 1 photograph : print ; sheet 8.7 x 13.7 cm (postcard format)
Identifier: photCL_555
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15150coll2/id/19174
Subject: Earthquake damage
Storefronts
Ruins
Business districts
Photographs. (aat)
Place: Compton (Calif.)
Source: Photographs, Huntington Digital Library

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