Gulls at the Sonoma County Landfill on Mecham Road, Feb. 1974 - Sonoma County Library Digital Collections -- Colecciones Digitales de la Biblioteca del Condado de Sonoma

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Title

Gulls at the Sonoma County Landfill on Mecham Road, Feb. 1974

Creator (Person)

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

Creation Date (Original)

February 1, 1974

View on Alternative Site

View photo location on the Sonoma County Historical Photos Map hosted by the City of Santa Rosa

Description

A cloud of gulls surround a tractor pushing refuse at the landfill.

Item Format or Genre

["color photographs"]

Local History and Culture Theme

["Environment"]

Subject (Topical)

["Sanitary landfills","Bulldozers","Gulls"]

Digital Collection Name(s)

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

Digital Collections Identifier

cstr_pho_034914

Archival Collection Sort Name

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

Item Details
Image Details

Item Details

Title

Gulls at the Sonoma County Landfill on Mecham Road, Feb. 1974

Creator (Person)

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

View on Alternative Site

View photo location on the Sonoma County Historical Photos Map hosted by the City of Santa Rosa

Maps/StreetView

View location in Google Maps

Description

A cloud of gulls surround a tractor pushing refuse at the landfill.

Biographical or Historical Note

The Mecham Road facility was closed to trash in 2005 after liners failed in 2003 and were repaired, but County of Sonoma efforts to sell the facility to an Arizona's Republic Services were halted in 2010.

Creation Date (Original)

February 1, 1974

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

["Environment"]

Subject (Time Period)

1974

Subject (Topical)

["Sanitary landfills","Bulldozers","Gulls"]

Country

["United States"]

State or Province

["California"]

California County

["Sonoma"]

City or Town

["Petaluma"]

Geographic Feature

["Mecham Road"]

Street Address

500 Mecham Road, Petaluma, California

Latitude

38.2989838

Longitude

-122.7399363

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

197403A07

Credit line

Courtesy, Sonoma County Library

Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], Skinner family photograph collection, 1965-1997, SPC.00109.034914 (Photo 34914, Sonoma County Library Digital Collections), History and Genealogy Library, Sonoma County Library, Santa Rosa, CA.

Local System Identifier

1303956

Digital Collections Identifier

cstr_pho_034914

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.00109.034914

Archival Collection Identifier

["SPC.00109"]

Archival Collection Sort Name

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

Physical Item Barcode(s)

37565010252111 (ANNEX PHOTO 34914);37565039765952 (ARCHIVES PHOTO 34914)

Item Call Number(s)

ANNEX PHOTO 34914;ARCHIVES PHOTO 34914

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

1974

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_034914.jp2

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