Image / [Arch with inscription, Santa Barbara County Courthouse]

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Title: [Arch with inscription, Santa Barbara County Courthouse]
Creator: Obert, Karl
Contributor: Obert's Photoshop
Date Created and/or Issued: [ca. 1934]
Publication Information: Santa Barbara, [Calif.] : Obert's Photoshop
Contributing Institution: California State Library
Collection: California History Section Picture Catalog
Rights Information: Please contact the contributing institution for more information regarding the copyright status of this object.
Description: 2012-0821.
Close-up view of a portion of the Santa Barbara County Courthouse showing a Roman-style arched entrance adjacent to a larger partially visible pillared arch. Three men, two women and one child, dressed in early Spanish-influenced California Rancho clothing, pose at entrance. Inscription above: "God gave us the country / The skill of man hath built the town, Varro A.D. 50."
Dennis Kruska;
Type: image
Format: Photographs.
Nonprojected graphic
Extent: 1 photographic print ; 10 x 8 in.
Identifier: (C)001470637CSL01-Aleph
Language: English
Subject: Courthouses--California--Santa Barbara
Arches--California--Santa Barbara
Architectural & site components--California--Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara (Calif.)--Photographs
Photographic prints
Place: California
Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara (Calif.)

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