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Ed Von der Porten's SRJC archeology class excavating at Point Reyes, Apr. 1966

Title

Ed Von der Porten's SRJC archeology class excavating at Point Reyes, Apr. 1966

Creator (Person)

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

Creation Date (Original)

April 1966

Description

Students are excavating a midden on Liamantour Spit at Point Reyes.

Item Format or Genre

["color photographs"]

Local History and Culture Theme

["Native Americans"]

Subject (Topical)

["Excavations (Archaeology)","Historians","Archaeology"]

Subject (Person)

["Von der Porten, Edward P., 1933-2018"]

Digital Collection Name(s)

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

Digital Collections Identifier

cstr_pho_034882

Archival Collection Sort Name

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

Item Details
Image Details

Item Details

Title

Ed Von der Porten's SRJC archeology class excavating at Point Reyes, Apr. 1966

Creator (Person)

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

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Description

Students are excavating a midden on Liamantour Spit at Point Reyes.

Biographical or Historical Note

Edward Von der Porten (with green cap, checking watch) and his students performed archaeological work in Sonoma and Marin counties. The midden in the "dig" in the photograph yielded, among other artifacts, numerous pieces of pottery from the Manilla galleon San Agustin shipwrecked on Point Reyes in 1595.

Creation Date (Original)

April 1966

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

["Native Americans"]

Subject (Person)

["Von der Porten, Edward P., 1933-2018"]

Subject (Time Period)

1966

Subject (Topical)

["Excavations (Archaeology)","Historians","Archaeology"]

Country

["United States"]

State or Province

["California"]

California County

["Marin"]

District

["Point Reyes National Seashore"]

Geographic Feature

["Liamantour Spit Trail"]

Street Address

Liamantour Spit Trail, Point Reyes National Seashore, California

Latitude

38.0281997

Longitude

-122.8927875

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

196804A07A

Credit line

Courtesy, Sonoma County Library

Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], Skinner family photograph collection, 1965-1997, SPC.00109.034882 (Photo 34882, Sonoma County Library Digital Collections), History and Genealogy Library, Sonoma County Library, Santa Rosa, CA.

Local System Identifier

1303924

Digital Collections Identifier

cstr_pho_034882

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.00109.034882

Archival Collection Identifier

["SPC.00109"]

Archival Collection Sort Name

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

Physical Item Barcode(s)

37565010252285 (ANNEX PHOTO 34882);37565039765663 (ARCHIVES PHOTO 34882)

Item Call Number(s)

ANNEX PHOTO 34882;ARCHIVES PHOTO 34882

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

1966

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_034882.jp2

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