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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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[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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Photographs of the aftermath of the San Francisco earthquake and fire
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86 photographs of the destruction caused by the 1906 earthquake and fire in San Francisco. Views include street scenes with pedestrians and bystanders and destroyed or damaged commercial buildings and private residences with a focus on many of the city's breweries and malt houses. The photographer, Theodore Rueger, was the proprietor of the Benicia Brewery and Soda Works in Benicia, California. Eighteen of the photographs were reproduced in the June 1, 1906 edition of the "American Brewers' Review" in an article entitled "In Stricken Frisco."
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Crowds at beach, Villa Riviera, Long Beach, California
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View of a crowded beach in Long Beach, California, with beachgoers in bathing suits amid beach umbrellas; the Villa Riviera is the tallest building visible in the background, with the Pacific Coast Club behind it. One umbrella in the foreground says "H. Kingsbury."
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Traffic collision between street car and truck, Cahuenga Pass and Dark Canyon. 1924
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A view of the wreckage following a collision between a street car and a truck. The front of the street car is dented and scratched and the windows are broken. The truck is no longer recognizable as a vehicle, with the body completely destroyed and the engine laying exposed on the tracks. A crowd of men watch as workers attach chains to remove the truck wreckage from the tracks. A billboard in the background reads "Hollywood Knolls ; Homesites $1500 up".
photCL Whitt 0870 ; Whitt neg. 0004