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 the entrance to Jefferson Junior High School after it was destroyed by the Long Beach earthquake. Jefferson Junior High School, located on Euclid Ave. between 7th and 8th Streets, was designed by architects Allison and Allison with Carl Alfred Herman Anderson and completed in 1922. It was destroyed by the 1933 earthquake. Text from negative sleeve: Earthquakes, Long Beach, 1933
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