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 scene with a crowd of news reporters and others in front of a building damaged by the Long Beach earthquake with rubble on the ground next to it. The automobiles on the left have signs reading "News" (far left) and "Pathe News" on the windshields, the Pathe car has a motion picture camera and man on the roof and there is a camera on a tripod in front of the car. A woman in the center ladles chili into a bowl held by a man, a "Chili Bowl" truck is on the right, and a man in the foreground also holds a chili bowl. Men in the foreground are dressed in overalls, another man wears a white coat, and policemen are on the right. Text from negative sleeve: Earthquakes, Long Beach, 1933
Type
image
Format
b&w nitrate negative
Identifier
uclamss_1429_2166 ark:/21198/zz002dd3nq
Language
No linguistic content
Subject
Long Beach Earthquake, Calif., 1933 Photojournalists--California Earthquakes--California
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