Genre: news photographs / Resource Type: still image / Location: Santa Barbara (Calif.) / Date: 1925 - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

Description:: Lincoln Elementary School, at Cota and Anacapa streets. The school was torn down and rebuild between 1920 and 1934. The entrance of the building is intact and only the frame is seen on the inside of the building. Men are seen working on the inside of the building. Bricks are piled up on the sidewalk and on the side of the road.
Date:: [between 1920-1934]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: 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.
Date:: June 29, 1925
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: 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.
Date:: June 29, 1925
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: 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.
Date:: [circa June 1925]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: 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.
Date:: June 29, 1925
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: 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.
Date:: June 29, 1925
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Part of the El Pueblo Viejo Landmark District in Santa Barbara, the Mihran Building housed a pottery shop in 1924, and is considered a textbook example of the Monterey Colonial Style. It was designed as a two story structure, with a cantilevered porch that wrapped round two sides of the building.
Date:: [1922-1929?]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: 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.
Date:: June 29, 1925
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: 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.
Date:: June 29, 1925
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Description:: 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.
Date:: June 29, 1925
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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