View of the earthquake-damaged San Marcos Building at the south corner of State and Anapamu Streets. The corner of the building was demolished by the earthquake. Men are standing in the street and on the mound of rubble.
View of the earthquake-damaged San Marcos Building at night at the south corner of State and Anapamu Streets. The corner of the building was demolished by the earthquake. A tractor-mounted crane is clearing away rubble on the left. Two workers are in the center of the image between the crane and a car half-buried in rubble. A steam shovel with a sign reading "Keyst..." (the beginning of "Keystone Excavator") is on the right.
Unidentified commercial building, probably after the 1925 earthquake. Part of the walls are destroyed and the interior brick is showing. On the top floor, workers are seen working with the wooden frame of the building. There is concrete and rocks on the street that is being closed off by a singular wooden fence.
County Jail building with collapsed facade and tilted floors, rubble and lamppost in foreground, with trees at left and right. The jail was located on the block occupied by the current courthouse, probably near the curernt Hall of Records on the west corner of the block.
View of the failed Sheffield Dam after the June 29 earthquake. The earthquake liquefied the soil beneath the concrete-faced, compacted earth dam and a section moved downstream 100 feet. Broken concrete is visible next to the drained reservoir.
View of the earthquake-damaged San Marcos Building at the south corner of State and Anapamu Streets. The State Street portion of the building is in view. The corner of the building was demolished by the earthquake and the rubble on the ground is as high as the 1st story of the building.
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.
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.
Detail view of broken concrete on a section of the failed Sheffield Dam after the June 29 earthquake. The earthquake liquefied the soil beneath the concrete-faced, compacted earth dam and a section moved downstream 100 feet.
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.
Santa Barbara Mission, exterior view of the bell tower from the NE following the earth quake. The upper portion of the bell tower has collapsed, and there are 2 cracks in the mid-section. A pile of rubble is visible on the left in front of the mission church and brickwork around a half dome on the right appears to have fallen away. The Mission is located at 2201 Laguna St.
View of the failed Sheffield Dam after the June 29 earthquake. The earthquake liquefied the soil beneath the concrete-faced, compacted earth dam and a section moved downstream 100 feet. Broken concrete is visible next to the drained reservoir.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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, walkway and 2 parked automobiles in foreground, and 7 men standing on and near walkway looking on. Additional onlookers are in the area above the walkway. The hotel was located on the city block bounded by Victoria, State, Sola and Chapala Streets.
View of the failed Sheffield Dam after the June 29 earthquake. The earthquake liquefied the soil beneath the concrete-faced, compacted earth dam and a section moved downstream 100 feet. Broken concrete is visible next to the drained reservoir.
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.
View of the Hotel Californian, located at the south corner of State and Mason, after the earthquake struck. The hotel lost huge expanses of its exterior walls during the earthquake. The hotel had opened just 8 days before. The view is from about 30 State St. The hotel was restored after the earthquake. In 2012 the hotel was demolished due to seismic safety concerns. The facade and 2 side walls were kept intact, however.
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.
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.
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.
This image appears (cropped and reversed) with the article "Churches Hard Hit In Tremor. Earthquake Takes Toll of All Religious Edifices in Channel City." Los Angeles Times, 1 Jul 1925: 2.
View of a temporary food aid center beneath a tent on a commercial street after the earthquake. Cardboard boxes of food are neatly stacked beside the tent. Two sailors and a few women in the tent administer food aid to people in front of the tent. Five automobiles are parked in the street and a house and ruined commercial buildings are across the street in the background.
View of the earthquake-damaged San Marcos Building at the south corner of State and Anapamu Streets. The corner of the building was demolished by the earthquake. A tractor-mounted crane, 2 trucks and a tractor are clearing away rubble. Two people watch from a corner in the left foreground.
View of 2 women, displaced from their home(s), seated outdoors next to a table and in front of a tent after the earthquake. There appears to be bedding in side of the tent and next to it on the right.
Photograph of an elderly woman with her arm in a sling after the Santa Barbara earthquake. She is with 3 relief workers in a tent at a disaster relief station seated next to a table with first aid supplies.
View of Our Lady of Sorrows Church, at the north 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, two women in foreground, 3 men on left
View of the stone County Jail building with collapsed facade, tilted floors and rubble. Three men wearing suits and hats stand in front. The jail was located on the block occupied by the current courthouse, probably near the curernt Hall of Records on the west corner of the block.
View of flood (?) debris in the form of tangled woody material on a road in front of a house, from the flood that followed the failure of the Sheffield Dam after the earthquake. An automobile is partially visible on the right and 2 people are in the yard in the distance.
View of the failed Sheffield Dam after the June 29 earthquake. The earthquake liquefied the soil beneath the concrete-faced, compacted earth dam and a section moved downstream 100 feet. Broken concrete is visible next to the drained reservoir.
View of Santa Barbara Junior High School after the earthquake. The building, faced with rusticated stone, is heavily damaged; the roof is caved-in and areas of the 2nd story walls have fallen. There is a window casement on the rubble-filled stairway leading to the arched entry way. The school was located at the NE corner of De La Vina St. and Anapamu St.
View of the earthquake-damaged San Marcos Building at the south corner of State and Anapamu Streets. The corner of the building was demolished by the earthquake. Seven men are at the site.
View of the Hotel Californian, located at the south corner of State and Mason, after the earthquake struck. Five men and three women are on the sidewalk and street looking at the hotel, which lost huge expanses of its exterior walls during the earthquake. The hotel had opened just 8 days before. The view is from about 20 State St. The hotel was restored after the earthquake. In 2012 the hotel was demolished due to seismic safety concerns. The facade and 2 side walls were kept intact, however.
View of the earthquake-damaged San Marcos Building at the south corner of State and Anapamu Streets. The State Street portion of the building is in view. The corner of the building was demolished by the earthquake and the rubble on the ground is as high as the 1st story of the building. Two men stand between a tractor-mounted crane and an automobile.
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.
This image appears (cropped and reversed) with the article "Churches Hard Hit In Tremor. Earthquake Takes Toll of All Religious Edifices in Channel City." Los Angeles Times, 1 Jul 1925: 2.
People in line at a temporary bank after the earthquake in Santa Barbara. The bank is a wood frame structure with a canvas roof and canvas side wall. A window opening has bars. Five men and two women wait in line; another man is writing at a tall table. A partially visible sign on the bank reads: "Santa Barbara Branch, [Paci]fic Southwest, [Ban]k. A Spanish colonial style building is in the background.
View of the facade of the Santa Barbara Mission following the earthquake. The bell towers are heavily damaged, although the bells remain in place, and the top of the pediment is gone. Rubble from the towers is piled on the plaza in front of the church. The Misison is located at 2201 Laguna Street.
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.