Native Sons of Golden West with a bronze medallion at the dedication of the Santa Barbara County Courthouse, Santa Barbara, 1929

Item Overview

Title

Native Sons of Golden West with a bronze medallion at the dedication of the Santa Barbara County Courthouse, Santa Barbara, 1929

Architect

Mooser, William, Jr., 1893-1969

Date Created

August 14, 1929

Date

1929-08-14

Publisher

Los Angeles Times

Language

No linguistic content

Collection

Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Notes

Description

The Santa Barbara County Courthouse is located at 1100 Anacapa Street, in Santa Barbara. The Spanish Colonial Revival style building was designed by William Mooser, Jr. and completed in 1929.
Six members of the Native Sons of Golden West pose for a photograph with the bronze medallion that they presented at the dedication of the Santa Barbara Courthouse. James A. Wilson, Junior Past Grand President, is on the far right. The medallion is inscribed: "Native Sons Of The Golden West, Dedicated august 14 1929." They are standing in front of the main doorway to the courthouse where the dedication took place.

Caption

Text from negative sleeve: California, Santa Barbara, Courthouse, Dedication
Text from a newspaper caption for a very similar photograph: Santa Barbara County's New Courthouse Dedicated. James A. Wilson, Junior Past Grand President of the Native Sons of the Golden West is presenting the county an American flag as part of the dedicatory exercises [Los Angeles Times, 8/15/1929].

Physical Description

Extent

1 photograph

Medium

b&w nitrate negative

Keywords

Genre

cellulose nitrate film
news photographs

Names

Santa Barbara County Courthouse (Santa Barbara, Calif.)
Wilson, James A.
Native Sons of the Golden West

Location

Santa Barbara (Calif.)

Longitude

34.42438123815740

Latitude

-119.70208525657700

Resource type

still image

Subjects

Building dedications--California--Santa Barbara
Events
People
Courthouses--California--Santa Barbara
Landmarks