Earthquake-damaged Arlington Hotel, Santa Barbara, 1925
Item Overview
- Title
- Earthquake-damaged Arlington Hotel, Santa Barbara, 1925
- Date Created
- June 29, 1925
- Date
- 1925-06-29
- Publisher
- Los Angeles Times
- Language
- No linguistic content
- Collection
- Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Notes
- Description
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A similar photograph appears with the article, "Quake Known Dead Reach Seventeen, New Santa Barbara Shocks Send Residents Into Open, City Bravely Faces Future as $15,000,000 Damage is Surveyed; Scores of Buildings Fall or Are Partly Demolished by Quake," with caption: Arlington Hotel, Los Angeles Times, 30 Jun. 1925.
View of the Arlington Hotel on the Victoria St. side, with 5-story section at left, 3-story section at right, and collapsed section at center, with garden and walkway in foreground, three people standing on walkway looking on. The hotel was located on the city block bounded by Victoria, State, Sola and Chapala Streets.
On June 29, 1925 at 6:42 am a major earthquake hit the area of Santa Barbara. It was 19 seconds in duration and registered 6.8 on the Richter magnitude scale. The downtown of Santa Barbara was destroyed, the Sheffield Dam collapsed, and thirteen people died. The facade of the Mission Santa Barbara was severely damaged and lost its statues. Three persons thought to shut off the town electricity and gas, thereby preventing catastrophic fire. The city was rebuilt in a unified Spanish Colonial Revival style in 1925-1929.
Physical Description
- Extent
- 1 photograph
- Medium
- b&w nitrate negative
Keywords
- Genre
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cellulose nitrate film
news photographs - Names
- Arlington Hotel (Santa Barbara, Calif.)
- Location
- Santa Barbara (Calif.)
- Longitude
- 34.424173
- Latitude
- -119.706329
- Resource type
- still image
- Subjects
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Disaster
Landmarks
Hotels--California--Santa Barbara
Earthquakes--California--Santa Barbara
Find This Item
- Repository
- University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
- Local Identifier
-
0139
uclamss_1429_0139 - ARK
- ark:/21198/zz002d9bwc
- Manifest url
Access Condition
- Rights statement
- copyrighted
- Rights Holder
- UCLA Charles E. Young Research Library Department of Special Collections, A1713 Young Research Library, Box 951575, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575. E-mail: spec-coll@library.ucla.edu. Phone: (310)825-4988
- Rights Country
- US
- Funding Note
- Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.
- License
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This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License .