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Title: Compton City Hall, 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: A spirit of courage and hope replaced despair in the hearts of quake sufferers, following the organization of systematic relief following the 1933 earthquake. This photo shows a tent city relief station established by the American Legion in a park near the wreckage of the Compton city hall, which was shaken into twisted ruin. Photo date: March 13, 1933.
Type: image
Format: 1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00047508
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box 4630
CARL0000051750
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/23423
Subject: Compton City Hall (Compton, Calif.)
Long Beach Earthquake, 1933
City halls--California--Compton
Earthquake relief--California--Compton
Earthquake damage--California--Compton
Buildings--Earthquake effects--California--Compton
Debris--California--Compton
Earthquakes--California, Southern
Tents--California--Compton
Lawns--California--Compton
Lost architecture--California--Compton
Compton (Calif.)
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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