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Merchandise stacked outside Richfield Products building, damaged by the Long Beach earthquake, Southern California, 1933

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Title: Merchandise stacked outside Richfield Products building, damaged by the Long Beach earthquake, Southern California, 1933
Date Created and/or Issued: March 1933
1933-03
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.
View of tables with boxes of basic necessities including butter, graham crackers, toilet paper, and canned goods outside of a brick building that has lost the top rows of bricks after the Long Beach earthquake. One man, in charge, talks with 2 other people and a couple examines some goods on a table. A sign on the building reads "Richfield Products."
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.
Text from negative sleeve: Earthquakes, Long Beach, 1933
Type: image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_2143
ark:/21198/zz002dd2vb
Language: English
Subject: Disaster relief--California
Long Beach Earthquake, Calif., 1933
Earthquake damage--California
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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