People at a temporary bank after the earthquake, Santa Barbara, 1925

Item Overview

Title

People at a temporary bank after the earthquake, 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

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.
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.

Caption

Text from negative sleeve: Earthquakes, Santa Barbara

Physical Description

Extent

1 photograph

Medium

b&w nitrate negative

Keywords

Genre

cellulose nitrate film
news photographs

Names

Pacific-Southwest Bank

Location

Santa Barbara (Calif.)

Resource type

still image

Subjects

Earthquakes--California--Santa Barbara
Banks--California--Santa Barbara