Collapsed city hall in Compton, after the earthquake of March 10, 1933

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Photograph of a collapsed city hall in Compton, after the earthquake of March 10, 1933. The roof is shown in the right center foreground, tumbling down to a pile of wreckage on the path below which can be seen behind a park bench and a swath of grass. Farther in the background, a second section of the building can be seen slumping to the left, its windows coming unhinged.

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Title Collapsed city hall in Compton, after the earthquake of March 10, 1933

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 ; 13 x 10 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)

Date Created 1933-03-10

Creator Gillingham, Robert C. (photographer)

Publisher University of Southern California. Libraries (digital)

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.

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Permanent Link (DOI) https://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m2575

Identifier 12737 (accession number), CHS-12737 (call number), CHS-12737 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-3488 (legacy record id), chs-m2575 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-2637 (legacy record id), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 3488

Unique identifier UC120468

Legacy Identifier CHS-12737.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 13.5 in × 17.0 in at 300dpi
34.2 cm × 43.2 cm at 300dpi

Inherited Values

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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