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Title: Commercial buildings damaged by 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.
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.
View of 3 commercial buildings, the center one visibly damaged by the Long Beach earthquake, with the workmen repairing the missing upper facade and with scaffolding against the lower story. A few people are on the street and one car is parked. Signs for the stores read: "Enna Jettick Shores," Merrill's Specialty Shops, Inc.," "Roslyn Shore," "Weaver Jackson Beauty Shop," and "Kirby's."
Text from negative sleeve: Earthquakes, Long Beach, 1933
Type: Image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_2097
ark:/21198/zz002dd182
Language: English
Subject: Earthquakes--California
Earthquake damage--California
Disaster relief--California
Long Beach Earthquake, Calif., 1933
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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