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Title: Earthquake-damaged clock
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued: 1933
Contributing Institution: Los Angeles Public Library
Collection: Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
Rights Information: Images available for reproduction and use. Please see the Ordering & Use page at http://tessa.lapl.org/OrderingUse.html for additional information.
Description: Standing as a symbol of death, this big clock on one of the main thoroughfares of Long Beach stopped at exactly 5:55 p.m. on March 10, 1933, the moment the quake struck its tragic blow.
Type: image
Format: 1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00057396
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box 4630 Long Beach Quake Scene.
CARL0000059285
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/21200
Subject: Long Beach Earthquake, 1933
Earthquakes--California, Southern
Streets--California--Long Beach
Clocks and watches--California--Long Beach
Long Beach (Calif.)
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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