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 a few people gathered around a large mound of oranges provided as relief for victims of the Long Beach earthquake at the corner of East Seventh Street and Alamitos Avenue. Other people are gathered along a row of tables and boxes in the background. Text from newspaper caption: Oranges Free fo All in Temblor Stricken City: Golden Fruit Piled on Pavement in Long Beach. Scene at East Seventh and Alamitos streets, American Legion headquarters, shows product of California orchards heaped on thoroughfare [Standalone photo, Los Angeles Times, 13 Mar. 1933: 5] Text from negative sleeve: Earthquakes, Long Beach, 1933
Type
image
Format
b&w nitrate negative
Identifier
uclamss_1429_2140 ark:/21198/zz002dd2rs
Language
No linguistic content
Subject
Disaster relief--California--Long Beach Earthquakes--California--Long Beach Long Beach Earthquake, Calif., 1933
Source
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection OpenUCLA Collections
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