James A. Wilson and others at the dedication ceremony of the Santa Barbara County Courthouse, Santa Barbara, 1929

Item Overview

Title

James A. Wilson and others at the dedication ceremony 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.
An unidentified woman speaking into a microphone, James A. Wilson (center, left), member of the Native Sons of the Golden West, and another man holding up a U. S. flag, and two other men holding up a California State flag at the dedication ceremony for the Santa Barbara Courthouse. Ceremony participants are seated on folding chairs and the courthouse entrance is behind them. Observers look down from the balcony above.

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

34.424469737383600

Latitude

-119.70199942588800

Resource type

still image

Subjects

Building dedications--California--Santa Barbara
Events
People
Government
Courthouses--California--Santa Barbara
Legal