Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds. County Jail building with collapsed facade and tilted floors, rubble and lamppost in foreground, with trees at left and right. The jail was located on the block occupied by the current courthouse, probably near the curernt Hall of Records on the west corner of the block. Related to the article, "Quake Known Dead Reach Seventeen, New Santa Barbara Shocks Send Residents Into Open, City Bravely Faces Future as $15,000,000 Damage is Surveyed; Scores of Buildings Fall or Are Partly Demolished by Quake." Los Angeles Times, 30 Jun. 1925. Image blurred by camera motion 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. Handwritten at edge of negative: Santa Barbara Quake Text from nitrate negative sleeve: Earthquakes, Santa Barbara, 1925, 11 of 11 (4 negs)
Type
image
Format
b&w nitrate negative
Identifier
uclamss_1429_0136 0136 ark:/21198/zz002d9bst
Language
No linguistic content
Subject
Earthquakes--California--Santa Barbara Disaster Jails--California--Santa Barbara Environment Legal Crime County Jail (Santa Barbara, Calif.)
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