Failed Sheffield Dam after the earthquake, Santa Barbara, 1925
Item Overview
- Title
- Failed Sheffield Dam 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
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Detail view of broken concrete on a section 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.
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
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cellulose nitrate film
news photographs - Location
- Santa Barbara (Calif.)
- Longitude
- 34.44461
- Latitude
- -119.693255
- Resource type
- still image
- Subjects
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Sheffield Reservoir (Santa Barbara, Calif.)
Sheffield Dam Failure, Calif., 1925
Reservoirs--California--Santa Barbara
Earthquakes--California--Santa Barbara
Dam failures--California--Santa Barbara
Find This Item
- Repository
- University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
- Local Identifier
- uclamss_1429_2224
- ARK
- ark:/21198/zz002dd5np
- 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
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This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License .