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Title
Sidewalk relief station after the Long Beach earthquake, Southern California, 1933
Date Created and/or Issued
March 1933
Publication Information
Los Angeles Times
Contributing Institution
UCLA, Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library
Collection
Los Angeles Times Photographic Archives
Rights Information
US
Description
Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.
Related the newspaper article: "Navy Relief Extended: Sailing of Fleet Postponed: Admiral Leigh Orders Delay of Week to Allow 2000 Sailors Continue Aid." Los Angeles Times, 13 Mar. 1933: 1
The Long Beach earthquake of 1933 took place on March 10, with a magnitude of 6.4, causing widespread damage to buildings throughout Southern California. The epicenter was offshore, southeast of Long Beach on the Newport-Inglewood Fault. An estimated fifty million dollars' worth of property damage resulted, and 120 lives were lost.
Photograph of a relief station set up on a sidewalk following the Long Beach earthquake. A truck is parked on the left, 20 large bottles of drinking water are stacked on the right, and people are gathered around an outdoor stove made of brick where a sailor lifts the lid of a cooking pot and another sailor stands on the right.
Text from negative sleeve: Earthquakes, Long Beach, 1933
Type
Image
Format
b&w nitrate negative
Identifier
uclamss_1429_2077
ark:/21198/zz002dd0k7
Language
No linguistic content
Subject
Earthquakes--California
Disaster relief--California
Long Beach Earthquake, Calif., 1933
Source
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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