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

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

Description:: A similar photograph appears with the article “Modern Methods in Old Setting, Rebuild Santa Barbara Mission With Original Material.” Los Angeles Times, 6 Dec. 1926. Caption reads: Replace the Old Walls. Equipment of builders of today in great contrast to that used by the early fathers who constructed the fine old edifice in 1786.
Date:: 1926
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: This photograph was part of the coverage taken for the Los Angeles Times article "Historic Pageant Opens Santa Barbara Fiesta," 8/19/1932.
Date:: August 18, 1932
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Photograph appears with the article (reversed) "Pioneers.. That Were Pioneers," by Anne Ellis, Los Angeles Times, 1 Dec. 1935: I9.
Date:: [circa November 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

Description:: Photo Appears with the title "Tea often follows polo in smart Montecito," Los Angeles Times, 26 Aug. 1936: A8.
Date:: [circa August 1936]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: County National Bank and Trust Company architects were Myron Hunt and H.C. Chambers
Date:: [1926-1929?]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Photograph appears with the article, "Honeymoon in Hawaii Plan of Former Kathryn Dee," Los Angeles Times, 27 May 1936: A8.
Date:: [circa May 26, 1936]
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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