Earthquake-damaged Our Lady of Sorrows Church, Santa Barbara, 1925
Item Overview
- Title
- Earthquake-damaged Our Lady of Sorrows Church, 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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Related to 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." Los Angeles Times, 29 Jun. 1925.
Our Lady of Sorrows Church, at the corner of State and Figueroa Streets, with one of two bell towers destroyed, facade, side, and remaining tower heavily damaged, stained-glass windows intact, rubble in left foreground, three men in caps looking in right foreground, trees and undamaged building at right
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
- Our Lady of Sorrows Church (Santa Barbara, Calif.)
- Location
- Santa Barbara (Calif.)
- Longitude
- 34.42231
- Latitude
- -119.702954
- Resource type
- still image
- Subjects
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Churches--California--Santa Barbara
Earthquakes--California--Santa Barbara
Disaster
Religion
Catholic churches--California--Santa Barbara
Environment
Find This Item
- Repository
- University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
- Local Identifier
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0138
uclamss_1429_0138 - ARK
- ark:/21198/zz002d9bvv
- 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 .