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[Aftermath of the Long Beach earthquake in Long Beach and Compton, California]

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    Photographs and postcards of the Long Beach, California, earthquake

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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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    Collection of photographs and postcards of the Long Beach, California, earthquake

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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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  • Compton, California

    Compton, California

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    Image of people walking in the street of a business district in Compton, California, with buildings in ruins and pile of rubble after the Long Beach earthquake of March 10, 1933. Signs on some of the buildings read "home of Nygaard Electric Co.," and "Keyzer's Bakery."

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  • Bread line, Earthquake, Long Beach, Cal

    Bread line, Earthquake, Long Beach, Cal

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    Image of a crowd of people waiting in a bread line on a street sidewalk following the Long Beach Earthquake on March 10, 1933, amid milk cans, food crates, and men in military uniforms.

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    [View of the bungalow residence of Washington P. Webb, Long Beach, California]

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    View of three women standing on the porch of a clapboard cottage in Long Beach, California, with a young man playing a guitar below.

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  • East 3rd Street looking west to Pine, earthquake, Long Beach

    East 3rd Street looking west to Pine, earthquake, Long Beach

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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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