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Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds. Photograph of several guards gathered around a table in the emergency kitchen set up at Bixby Park in Long Beach following the earthquake that struck the area on March 10, 1933. They stand in the near distance, at center, and all around a table that stands in front of a swing set. Part of the emergency kitchen can be seen in the near distance at left with a few people standing nearby it. Trees stand in the background. Text from negative sleeve: 642. Long Beach. Earthquake March 17, 1933. The day or two after the terrible earth quake at Compton and Long Beach we drove down to see the damage. At Compton we found the Police Court in this oil station. See the sign on the building reading "Police Court." The sign in Bixby Park, Long Beach. Guards on duty in the park. The emergency kitchens in the park. 4 negatives
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