Image / Poor Lizz, Inglewood earthquake, June 21, 1920

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Title: Poor Lizz, Inglewood earthquake, June 21, 1920
Date Created and/or Issued: 1920
Contributing Institution: Huntington Library
Collection: Photographs
Rights Information: For information on using Huntington Library materials, please see Reproductions of Huntington Library Holdings: https://www.huntington.org/library-rights-permissions
Description: Image of people standing in a street next to piles of rubble, a crushed car, and stacked bricks with storefronts in the distance in Inglewood, California, after the 1920 earthquake.
Poor Lizz, Inglewood earthquake, June 21, 1920."--text, on item. Title transcribed from item; date supplied by cataloger based on note on item. With handwritten note on postcard verso: "Here is one Lizzie that won't 'rumble right along' any more. The quake didn't hurt anyone. There was no one on the streets when it happened. A few people dropped dead from heart failure.
Type: Image
Format: image/jpeg
Extent: 1 photograph : print ; sheet 8.4 x 13.3 cm
Identifier: photCL_555
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15150coll2/id/19171
Subject: Earthquake damage
Automobiles
Bricks
Business districts
Rubble
Ruins
Photographs. (aat)
Place: Inglewood (Calif.)
Source: Photographs, Huntington Digital Library

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