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Title: Auditorium disaster, crowds trapped beneath Pier
Date Created and/or Issued: May 24, 1913
Contributing Institution: California State University, Dominguez Hills, Archives and Special Collections
Collection: Long Beach Fireman's Historical Museum Photographs Collection
Rights Information: Permission to publish the image must be obtained from the CSUDH Archives as owner of the physical item and copyright. In instances when copyright ownership is not clear it is the responsibility of the researcher to obtain copyright permission
Description: Hundreds remain trapped beneath wreckage of auditorium. Crowds had gathered for Empire Day (celebrating lands and people of British Empire) when gangway approach to auditorium gave way, dropping 350 or more to beach below, along with wreckage on top of them. Fifty persons died, either immediately or later as a result of injuries. Photo by Burro Studio.
Photo by Burro Studio
Type: Image
Identifier: 686
http://cdm16855.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/LBFiremen/id/2005
Source: Long Beach Fireman's Historical Museum Photographs Collection
CSUDH Archives
Relation: Disasters; Fatalities; Piers; Public Safety
M0003

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