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John Stiles from Arkansas driving 17 mules and donkeys with two wagons at Handy's Corner, Nov. 1990

Title

John Stiles from Arkansas driving 17 mules and donkeys with two wagons at Handy's Corner, Nov. 1990

Creator (Person)

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

Creation Date (Original)

November 1990

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Description

Shows Stiles, his animals and two wagons on the side of Highway 116 near the intersection of Frei Road, close to Graton.

Item Format or Genre

["color photographs"]

Local History and Culture Theme

["Sports and Recreation"]

Subject (Topical)

["Donkeys","Mules","Wagon trains"]

Subject (Person)

["Stiles, Cecelia","Stiles, John"]

Digital Collection Name(s)

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

Digital Collections Identifier

cstr_pho_034996

Archival Collection Sort Name

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

Item Details
Image Details

Item Details

Title

John Stiles from Arkansas driving 17 mules and donkeys with two wagons at Handy's Corner, Nov. 1990

Creator (Person)

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

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Description

Shows Stiles, his animals and two wagons on the side of Highway 116 near the intersection of Frei Road, close to Graton.

Biographical or Historical Note

John and Cecelia Stiles were Christians who chose to travel the country to witness for Jesus Christ by traveling across the United States for over two decades with their mules and two wagons. The Stiles each walked in front of a wagon and never rode in the wagons. They had already traveled for about 10 years when they visited Sonoma County and wintered for several months at the DuVander Ranch in Windsor. See the Modesto Bee newspaper of Sept. 9, 1983 (section B-1) for a story by Becky McClure on the Stiles several years before they visited Sonoma County. John Stiles was also profiled in Lloyd Kahn's 2004 Shelter Publications book, Home work : handbuilt shelter (p. 174-175).

Creation Date (Original)

November 1990

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 (Person)

["Stiles, Cecelia","Stiles, John"]

Subject (Time Period)

1990

Subject (Topical)

["Donkeys","Mules","Wagon trains"]

Country

["United States"]

State or Province

["California"]

California County

["Sonoma"]

City or Town

["Sebastopol"]

Geographic Feature

["Gravenstein Highway North"]

Street Address

3195 Gravenstein Highway North, Sebastopol, California

Latitude

38.437832

Longitude

-122.857329

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.

Related Publication (Book)

Kahn, Lloyd, 1935- " Home work. p. 174-175; McClure, Becky. 2 wagons, a zoo and the word of God (Modesto Bee, Sept. 9, 1983, p. B-1)

Original Collection Name

["Skinner family photograph collection"]

Original Collection Numbering

1999011C20

Credit line

Courtesy, Sonoma County Library

Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], Skinner family photograph collection, 1965-1997, SPC.00109.034996 (Photo 34996, Sonoma County Library Digital Collections), History and Genealogy Library, Sonoma County Library, Santa Rosa, CA.

Local System Identifier

1303835

Digital Collections Identifier

cstr_pho_034996

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.00109.034996

Archival Collection Identifier

["SPC.00109"]

Archival Collection Sort Name

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

Physical Item Barcode(s)

37565010252939 (ANNEX PHOTO 34996);37565039766810 (ARCHIVES PHOTO 34996)

Item Call Number(s)

ANNEX PHOTO 34996;ARCHIVES PHOTO 34996

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

1990

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_034996.jp2

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