California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

Title Insurance and Trust and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection 1860-1960

View of the earthquake damage at the Compton City Hall, March 10, 1933

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View of the earthquake damage at the Compton City Hall, March 10, 1933

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Photograph of a view of the earthquake damage at the Compton City Hall, March 10, 1933. The light-colored, two-story, Romanesque building is badly damaged. Large sections of the second story wall are missing, and a portion of the façade has collapsed at right, bringing the roof down with it. A large pile of rubble and debris surrounds the large building. A young man in a sailor's uniform is standing on the lawn in front of the building at left. There are several small pine trees and bushes scattered around the City Hall.

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Title View of the earthquake damage at the Compton City Hall, March 10, 1933

Publisher University of Southern California. Libraries (digital)

Date Created 1933-03-10

Subject buildings (adlf), City halls (lcsh), Earthquakes (lcsh), Los Angeles County -- Compton (file heading)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place California (states), Compton (city or populated place), Los Angeles (counties), USA (countries)

Temporal Subject 1933-03-10

Type images

Format 1 photograph : photonegative, b&w ; 10 x 13 cm. (aacr2), negatives (photographic) (aat), photographs (aat)

Source California Historical Society (contributing entity), California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960 (collection), Title Insurance and Trust, and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection, 1860-1960 (subcollection)

Repository Email specol@lib.usc.edu

Repository Name USC Libraries Special Collections

Repository Location Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189

Rights Public Domain. Please credit both “University of Southern California. Libraries” and “California Historical Society” as the source. Digitally reproduced by the USC Digital Library.

Copyright Public Domain. Please credit both “University of Southern California. Libraries” and “California Historical Society” as the source. Digitally reproduced by the USC Digital Library.

Access Conditions Send requests to address or e-mail given

Permanent Link (DOI) https://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m2590

Identifier 14146 (accession number), CHS-14146 (call number), CHS-14146 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-3503 (legacy record id), chs-m2590 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-2652 (legacy record id), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 3503

Unique identifier UC120335

Legacy Identifier CHS-14146.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 19.2 in × 15.4 in at 300dpi
48.8 cm × 39.2 cm at 300dpi

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Title Title Insurance and Trust and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection 1860-1960

Description The nearly 15,000 unique photographs of this collection contain the work of C.C. Pierce which cover the Los Angeles region city, street and architectural views, California Missions, Southwestern Native Americans, and turn-of-century Nevada, Arizona, and California. Pierce, active from 1886 to 1940, was one of the leading photographers of his day and amassed a collection of 15,000 images, including his own and those bought and copied from his contemporaries, George Wharton James and Charles Puck. The James collection contains over 2,000 images of portraits, customs, ceremonies, arts, and games of various groups of Southwestern Native Americans.

Date Created 1860/1960

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