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Petaluma & Santa Rosa Railway tracks at east of Hurlbut Ave. crossing, Sebastopol, Calif., May 1981

Title

Petaluma & Santa Rosa Railway tracks at east of Hurlbut Ave. crossing, Sebastopol, Calif., May 1981

Creator (Person)

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

Creation Date (Original)

May 1981

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Description

Shows rails and ties on a section between Hurlbut Avenue and Du Frank Avenue.

Item Format or Genre

["color photographs"]

Local History and Culture Theme

["Transportation"]

Subject (Topical)

["Railroad tracks"]

Subject (Corporate Body)

["Petaluma and Santa Rosa Railroad Company"]

Digital Collection Name(s)

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

Digital Collections Identifier

cstr_pho_034971

Archival Collection Sort Name

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

Item Details
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Item Details

Title

Petaluma & Santa Rosa Railway tracks at east of Hurlbut Ave. crossing, Sebastopol, Calif., May 1981

Creator (Person)

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

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Description

Shows rails and ties on a section between Hurlbut Avenue and Du Frank Avenue.

Biographical or Historical Note

Freight trains transported produce and other goods through downtown Sebastopol between the 1890s, when the San Francisco and North Pacific Railroad commenced service and the late 1980s, when the Southern Pacific abandoned the line to Santa Rosa. The rail bed was converted to the West County Trail after abandonment.

Creation Date (Original)

May 1981

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

["Transportation"]

Subject (Corporate Body)

["Petaluma and Santa Rosa Railroad Company"]

Subject (Time Period)

1981

Subject (Topical)

["Railroad tracks"]

Country

["United States"]

State or Province

["California"]

California County

["Sonoma"]

City or Town

["Sebastopol"]

Geographic Feature

["Hurlbut Avenue","East Hurlbut Avenue"]

Street Address

Hurlbut Avenue and East Hurlbut Avenue, Sebastopol, California

Latitude

38.4113569

Longitude

-122.8363967

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

198005A12

Credit line

Courtesy, Sonoma County Library

Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], Skinner family photograph collection, 1965-1997, SPC.00109.034971 (Photo 34971, Sonoma County Library Digital Collections), History and Genealogy Library, Sonoma County Library, Santa Rosa, CA.

Local System Identifier

1304010

Digital Collections Identifier

cstr_pho_034971

Digital Collection Name(s)

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

Digital Collections Area Group(s)

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

Digital Collections Topical Subgroup(s)

["Railroads of Sonoma County and Northern California"]

Archival Collection Item Identifier

SPC.00109.034971

Archival Collection Identifier

["SPC.00109"]

Archival Collection Sort Name

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

Physical Item Barcode(s)

37565010252699 (ANNEX PHOTO 34971);37565039766588 (ARCHIVES PHOTO 34971)

Item Call Number(s)

ANNEX PHOTO 34971;ARCHIVES PHOTO 34971

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

1981

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_034971.jp2

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