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Title: Cafe in Compton, 1933 earthquake
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: This photo shows the twisted and tangled ruin of what was a cafe on Compton's Main Street. Timbers and masonry toppled along the streets in the Compton business district had buried many persons. The toll of known dead reached 16. Photo dated: March 11, 1933.
Type: image
Format: 1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00047507
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box 4630.
CARL0000051129
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/16807
Subject: Long Beach Earthquake, 1933
Restaurants--California--Compton
Buildings--Earthquake effects--California--Compton
Debris--California--Compton
Earthquakes--California, Southern
Earthquake damage--California--Compton
Lost architecture--California--Compton
Night photographs
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs
Time Period: 1931-1940

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