Three relief workers and a treated woman in a tent at a disaster relief station after the earthquake, Santa Barbara, 1925

Title: Three relief workers and a treated woman in a tent at a disaster relief station after the earthquake, Santa Barbara, 1925
Date Created: June 1925
Date: 1925-06
Publisher: Los Angeles Times
Language: No linguistic content
Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description: Photograph of an elderly woman with her arm in a sling after the Santa Barbara earthquake. She is with 3 relief workers in a tent at a disaster relief station seated next to a table with first aid supplies.
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

Genre: cellulose nitrate film
news photographs
Location: Santa Barbara (Calif.)
Resource type: still image
Subjects: Earthquakes--California--Santa Barbara
Disaster relief--California--Santa Barbara

Repository: University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
Local Identifier: uclamss_1429_2231
ARK: ark:/21198/zz002dd5w9
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