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Title: Searching for survivors, 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 remarkable photo shows rescuers standing in momentary silent suspense while listening for sounds of life amid the shattered wreckage of the Stockwell building in Compton. They are standing on the second floor, where several were killed. Dated March 11, 1933.
Type: Image
Format: 1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00047523
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box 4630
CARL0000051140
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/16811
Subject: Stockwell Building (Compton, Calif.)
Long Beach Earthquake, 1933
Buildings--California--Compton
Earthquakes--California, Southern
Volunteer workers in search and rescue operations--California--Compton
Compton (Calif.)
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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