Caravan Stage Company leaves Sonoma State University, Oct. 1985 - Sonoma County Library Digital Collections -- Colecciones Digitales de la Biblioteca del Condado de Sonoma

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Title

Caravan Stage Company leaves Sonoma State University, Oct. 1985

Creator (Person)

["Skinner, Harold R., 1925-2004"]

Creation Date (Original)

October 1985

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Description

Two wagons pulled by teams of Clydesdale horses travel out the Sequoia Way, the main entrance road to the University.

Item Format or Genre

["color photographs"]

Local History and Culture Theme

["Sports and Recreation"]

Subject (Topical)

["Wagon trains","Theatrical companies"]

Subject (Corporate Body)

["Sonoma State University","Caravan Stage Company"]

Digital Collection Name(s)

["Skinner family photograph collection, 1965-1997"]

Digital Collections Identifier

cstr_pho_034985

Archival Collection Sort Name

["Skinner family photograph collection, 1965-1997 (SPC.00109)"]

Item Details
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Item Details

Title

Caravan Stage Company leaves Sonoma State University, Oct. 1985

Creator (Person)

["Skinner, Harold R., 1925-2004"]

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Description

Two wagons pulled by teams of Clydesdale horses travel out the Sequoia Way, the main entrance road to the University.

Biographical or Historical Note

Created in 1970, by Paul Kirby and Adriana Kelder, the Caravan started as a one wagon puppet show traveling on Vancouver island it grew to become a major theatrical organization with a 25 person company of actors, musicians, artists and technicians touring in six large wagons each one pulled by a team of matched bay Clydesdales. The stage company visited Sonoma State as part multi-year tour through the United States and Canada.

Creation Date (Original)

October 1985

Reprinting Date (Original)

2011-02-18

Item Type

["Still image"]

Item Format or Genre

["color photographs"]

Number of Parts or Pages

1 photographic print

Other Physical Details

color

Item Physical Dimensions

20 x 26 centimeters

Local History and Culture Theme

["Sports and Recreation"]

Subject (Corporate Body)

["Sonoma State University","Caravan Stage Company"]

Subject (Time Period)

1985

Subject (Topical)

["Wagon trains","Theatrical companies"]

Country

["United States"]

State or Province

["California"]

California County

["Sonoma"]

City or Town

["Rohnert Park"]

Geographic Feature

["East Cotati Avenue"]

Street Address

1801 East Cotati Avenue, Rohnert Park, California

Latitude

38.3372467

Longitude

-122.6749277

Geocoding Status

["Exact geocoding"]

Creator Note

Hal Skinner (1925-2004) moved to Sonoma County from Indiana in 1965 to serve as the first director of the Audio-Visual Department (later Instructional Resources Department) at Sonoma State College (later University). He later taught in the School of Education until retiring in 1988. He took up artist blacksmithing in retirement and was a featured exhibitor at the Gravenstein Apple Fair in Sebastopol and Sturgeon's Sawmill in Occidental until his death at age 79.

Source of Title and Description Note

Title supplied by cataloger.

Reproduction Details (Physical Items)

Printed from digital photograph (JPEG) by The LAB, 400 Tesconi Circle, Santa Rosa, California.

Original Collection Name

["Skinner family photograph collection"]

Original Collection Numbering

198510B12

Credit line

Courtesy, Sonoma County Library

Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], Skinner family photograph collection, 1965-1997, SPC.00109.034985 (Photo 34985, Sonoma County Library Digital Collections), History and Genealogy Library, Sonoma County Library, Santa Rosa, CA.

Local System Identifier

1304026

Digital Collections Identifier

cstr_pho_034985

Digital Collection Name(s)

["Skinner family photograph collection, 1965-1997"]

Digital Collections Area Group(s)

["Archival Collections","Local History & Culture"]

Archival Collection Item Identifier

SPC.00109.034985

Archival Collection Identifier

["SPC.00109"]

Archival Collection Sort Name

["Skinner family photograph collection, 1965-1997 (SPC.00109)"]

Physical Item Barcode(s)

37565010253002 (ANNEX PHOTO 34985);37565039766687 (ARCHIVES PHOTO 34985)

Item Call Number(s)

ANNEX PHOTO 34985;ARCHIVES PHOTO 34985

Shelving Location of Physical Item(s)

Sonoma County History & Genealogy Library, 211 E Street, Santa Rosa, California. 95404; https://sonomalibrary.org/locations/sonoma-county-history-and-genealogy-library

Copyright Statement

Property and intellectual rights reside with the Skinner Family Estate. The rightsholder has granted the Sonoma County Library permission to make this collection available under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike (CC BY-NC-SA) 4.0 International license. Preferred credit line is: Courtesy, Skinner Family Estate and the Sonoma County Library. Please see additional reproduction and reuse information at https://sonomalibrary.org/locations/sonoma-county-history-and-genealogy-library/order-photo

Copyright Holder

Skinner Family Estate

Copyright Date

1985

Copyright Notice

© The Skinner Family Estate and is made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike (CC BY-NC-SA) 4.0 International license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/legalcode

Project Affiliation

Sonoma County Tourism Grant (2010-2011)

Contributing Organizations

Grant provided to the Sonoma County Library through the Sonoma County Advertising Program

Fiscal Sponsor

Sonoma County Library

Date Digitized

2011

Digitizing Agency

Luna Imaging, Inc., 2702 Media Center Drive, Los Angeles, CA 90065-1733 http://www.lunaimaging.com

Digitization Note

Color: RGB

Archival File Data Quality

["High resolution master file image (2600 ppi)"]

Acquisition Type

["Gift"]

Date of Acquisition

2011

Provenance

Original 35mm slide owned by Lorna Skinner

Filename

cstr_pho_034985.jp2

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