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Title
Destroyed building in Huntington Park after the 1933 earthquake, ca.1933
Date Created and/or Issued
circa 1933
Publication Information
University of Southern California. Libraries
Contributing Institution
California Historical Society
University of Southern California Digital Library
Collection
California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
Rights Information
Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189
Public Domain. Release under the CC BY Attribution license--http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/--Credit both “University of Southern California. Libraries” and “California Historical Society” as the source. Digitally reproduced by the USC Digital Library; From the California Historical Society Collection at the University of Southern California
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Description
Photograph of a destroyed building in Huntington Park after the 1933 earthquake, ca.1933. The building has been reduced to a large pile of bricks, bent pipes, and sheets of roofing. Two men stand on the pile at center looking towards the damage. Railroad tracks lie across the foreground.
Type
image
Format
1 photograph : photoprint, b&w
20 x 25 cm.
photographic prints
photographs
Identifier
chs-m5744
USC-1-1-1-5864 [Legacy record ID]
CHS-40545
http://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m5744
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/CHS-40545.jpg
Subject
Earthquakes
Los Angeles County--Huntington Park
Buildings
Time Period
circa 1933
Place
California
Huntington Park
Los Angeles
USA
Source
40545 [Accession number]
CHS-40545 [Call number]
California Historical Society [Contributing entity]
Relation
California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
Title Insurance and Trust, and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection, 1860-1960
USC
chs-m265

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