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

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Title: Three relief workers and a treated woman in a tent at a disaster relief station after the earthquake, Santa Barbara, 1925
Date Created and/or Issued: June 1925
1925-06
Publication Information: Los Angeles Times
Contributing Institution: UCLA, Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library
Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Archives
Rights Information: US
Description: Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.
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.
Text from negative sleeve: Earthquakes, Santa Barbara
Type: image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_2231
ark:/21198/zz002dd5w9
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Earthquakes--California--Santa Barbara
Disaster relief--California--Santa Barbara
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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