Earthquake-damaged San Marcos Building, Santa Barbara, 1925
Item Overview
- Title
- Earthquake-damaged San Marcos Building, 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
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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.
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.
Physical Description
- Extent
- 1 photograph
- Medium
- b&w nitrate negative
Keywords
- Genre
-
cellulose nitrate film
news photographs - Names
- San Marcos Building (Santa Barbara, Calif.)
- Location
- Santa Barbara (Calif.)
- Longitude
- 34.423308
- Latitude
- -119.704545
- Resource type
- still image
- Subjects
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Earthquakes--California--Santa Barbara
Commercial buildings--California--Santa Barbara
Hoisting machinery
Find This Item
- Repository
- University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
- Local Identifier
- uclamss_1429_2217
- ARK
- ark:/21198/zz002dd5d2
- Manifest url
Access Condition
- Rights statement
- copyrighted
- Rights Holder
- UCLA Charles E. Young Research Library Department of Special Collections, A1713 Young Research Library, Box 951575, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575. E-mail: spec-coll@library.ucla.edu. Phone: (310)825-4988
- Rights Country
- US
- Funding Note
- Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.
- License
-
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License .