Image / Compton Street scene after earthquake, Mar. 10, 1933

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Title: Compton Street scene after earthquake, Mar. 10, 1933
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Photographers Photo Collection;
Creator: Yocom, Stephen T
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: The address for Nygaard Electric (left of center) was 111 S. Oleander Avenue.
Residents and members of the Naval Guard inspect damaged buildings on S. Oleander Avenue in Compton after the Long Beach Earthquake.
Type: image
Format: Postcards
Identifier: 00110634
Los Angeles Photographers Collection;
GPC_b92_f2_i15
CARL0005247680
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/116588
Subject: United States.--Department of the Navy
Long Beach Earthquake, 1933
Earthquakes--California, Southern
Pedestrians--California--Compton
Stores & shops--California--Compton
Commercial buildings--California--Compton
Buildings--Earthquake effects--California--Compton
Earthquake damage--California--Compton
Debris--California--Compton
Signs and signboards--California--Compton
Streets--California--Compton
Automobiles--California--Compton
Lampposts--California--Compton
Street lighting--California--Compton
Lost architecture--California--Compton
Photographic postcards
Postcards
Compton (Calif.)

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