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

Description:: 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

Description:: Four women in historic dress ride a carriage pulled by a horse in the Old Spanish Days Fiesta parade on State Street. Carriages are on either side and a Victorian house is in the background.
Date:: August 15, 1935
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
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Description:: 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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Description:: Street view of Central Building, 6-story building with decorated roofline, with intersection, cars, and pedestrians in foreground. Business signs include: [Wool?]worth Co. 5 – 10- 15 Cent Store, Bank of America, Bitterly Co. Jewelry, Drugs, The Rexall Store. Location is the southwest corner of State Street and De La Guerra Street.
Date:: [1929?]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: At the dedication of the Santa Barbara Courthouse, the ceremonial setting of a bronze medallion provided by the Native Sons of Golden West. The participants are shown mixing the ingredients of water from each of the California missions with sand and gravel from each of the counties in California on the main stage in front of the main entrance to the courthouse.
Date:: August 14, 1929
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Spanish-style commercial buildings with arches, balconies, dormers, and tile roofs, with street and parked cars in foreground, possibly rebuilt after 1925 earthquake. Business signs read: First National [?] Bank, Murrays Light Lunch, Home Made Ice Cream, Candies, [Law?]rence C. Knight, Homes, Ranches, Insurance, The Friendly Office, Jacob Goldstein, Michel A. Levy Shoes
Date:: [1926-1929?]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Spanish-style commercial buildings with arches, balconies, dormers, and tile roofs, with street and 4 parked cars in foreground, possibly rebuilt after 1925 earthquake. Business signs read: Jacob Goldstein, Michel A. Levy Shoes. The shoe store was located at 913 State St.
Date:: [1926-1929?]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Spanish-style commercial buildings with arches, balconies, and tile roofs, with street and 3 parked cars in foreground, possibly rebuilt after 1925 earthquake. Business signs read: Johnston's Cafeteria, Johnston Cafeteria, Banks' Stationery Store, Tiernan Typewriter Exchange, Office Supplies, Typewriters, Desks, Brown-Du Mars Confectionery, Brown-Du Mars Confections of Quality, Hot Meals, Fountain, Solomon's. Johnston Cafeteria was located at 916 State St.
Date:: [1926-1929?]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Commercial buildings with pediments, arches, balconies, dormers, and tile roofs, possibly rebuilt after 1925 earthquake, with pedestrians, bicyclist, parked and moving cars, and parked bicycle in foreground. Business signs read: Howard-Canfield, The Great Wardrobe, [Santa Ba]bara First National Bank, Murrays Light Lunch, Homemade Ice Cream, Michel A. Levy, Confectionery, Glasse[s?], Nervous Wreck
Date:: [1926-1929?]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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