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Title: Earthquake-damaged sidewalk
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: Photo attributed to Austin.
Though its swaying movement caused big cracks in the sidewalk, this heavy concrete lamppost in Long Beach withstood the shock of the March 10, 1933 earthquake. Note the cracked building in the background.
Type: image
Format: 1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00057395
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box 4630 Long Beach Quake Scene
CARL0000059284
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/21199
Subject: Long Beach Earthquake, 1933
Earthquakes--California, Southern
Sidewalks--California--Long Beach
Streets--Earthquake effects--California--Long Beach
Lampposts--California--Long Beach
Earthquake damage--California--Long Beach
Long Beach (Calif.)
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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