Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
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Image of the 100 block of East 3rd Street looking towards the intersection of Pine Avenue in Long Beach, California, following the March 10, 1933, Long Beach earthquake, with pedestrians walking in the street amid automobiles, street car tracks, past rubble, bricks, debris, building damage, and the exposed bedroom, bathroom, and living area of a second-floor apartment. Visible storefront signs include: "W.H. Rohlfing, Linoleum Shades and Rods, 122 E. 3rd," "Buffalo Lunch," "Western Shoe Market," and "Owl Drug Co."
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5 black-and-white snapshots documenting the wreckage and destruction to various buildings caused by the Long Beach earthquake of 1933. Scenes include debris in the streets of Long Beach; a view of U.S. Marines walking through a Long Beach street; a destroyed Long Beach church; a view from the street of a building in Compton with the exterior wall destroyed and interior rooms visible; and the rubble before the Haigh Drug Co. store in Compton.
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A group of 36 snapshot photographs and photographic postcards, and two printed souvenir photo booklets documenting the range of destruction after the major Long Beach earthquake on March 10, 1933. Images chiefly show damaged buildings including churches, post offices, schools, houses, apartment buildings, and stores. Some images feature large cracks in streets and highways. Three photographs depict damage in Compton, and one was taken in nearby Lynwood. Identified photographers are Austin Studio, Long Beach; C.D. Douglass Studios, Montebello; Larry Lynde; and Pacific Studios, L.A.
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A group of 36 snapshot photographs and photographic postcards, and two printed souvenir photo booklets documenting the range of destruction after the major Long Beach earthquake on March 10, 1933. Images chiefly show damaged buildings including churches, post offices, schools, houses, apartment buildings, and stores. Some images feature large cracks in streets and highways. Three photographs depict damage in Compton, and one was taken in nearby Lynwood. Identified photographers are Austin Studio, Long Beach; C.D. Douglass Studios, Montebello; Larry Lynde; and Pacific Studios, L.A.
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A - Long Beach Channel Towers. B - Long Beach Harbor from roof of LBSP. C - Long Beach Steam Plant. D - Effects of 3-10-1933 earthquake, LBSP
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Image of a crowd of people gathered around a pagoda-style pavilion, with boats, and lumber on the beach and storefronts on Pacific Avenue for restaurants, boardinghouses, houses, and markets in the background in Redondo Beach, California. A passenger train depot for the Santa Fe Railway is visible on the beach at right, with the signs "Redondo" and "Santa Fe Route." Signs on the buildings include "Groceries, hardware, paints and oils, ship chandlery, gents furnishings goods, bathing suits, boots and shoes, fishing tackle," "Lunch Room," "Davis House," "Roach's Restaurant," "Seaside Market," and "W.A. Field."
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