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Title: 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 disaster relief station after the Long Beach earthquake with a man tending a brick camp stove on the far left, 6 women dressed in white at a tent and men standing to the right of them. A man dressed in white and wearing a sailor hat has a sign on his shirt reading "Police Official." Sign on the building in the background reads "Max...Harness Saddle ... Tires," and "The Nielson.."
Text from negative sleeve: Earthquakes, Long Beach, 1933
Type: Image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_2086
ark:/21198/zz002dd0ww
Language: English
Subject: Earthquakes--California
Disaster relief--California
Long Beach Earthquake, Calif., 1933
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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