Summer Solstice Celebration Collection

Unprocessed Material

Identifier: 2024-033

Staff Only

Content Description

Six (6) linear feet of optical media, VHS cassette tapes, 35mm slides, black and white negative strips, contact sheets, loose photos, clippings, and administrative files documenting the fifty-year history of Summer Solstice Celebration.

Acquisition Type

Transfer

Provenance

Transfer from Summer Solstice Celebration, Inc. - Initial loan of archival materials for Spring 2024 50th anniversary exhibition, Here Comes The Sun, at Santa Barbara Historical Museum, facilitated by Art Director Riccardo Morrison and Executive Director Penny Little.

Restrictions Apply

Dates

1976 - 2014

Extent

228 Optical disk(s) (1998-2014)

62 Cassettes (1980-2007) : VHS

1,859 Photographic Slides (1982-1997 in three (3) deep-lid print boxes) : Color 35mm

500 Photographic Prints (1982-2003 in one (1) print box) : Color ; 4" x 6"

100 Photographic Prints (1982-2008 in two (2) deep-lid print boxes) : Color and black and white ; 5" x 7"

100 Photographic Prints (1982-1997 in one (1) print box) : Color ; 3" x 5"

236 Negatives (Photographs) (1977-1979; Photographer Hank Meyer 1987) : black and white

240 Negatives (Photographs) (2003 and undated, uncredited) : 35mm color negative strips

252 Negatives (Photographs) (1987 black and white negatives with contact sheets by photographer Hank Meyer ) ; 9" x 12"

63 Photographic Prints (Black and white) ; 8" x 10"

118 Photographic Prints (1987 color prints in preserver sheets by unknown photographer) ; Varying sizes from 3" x 5" to 5" x 7"

420 Negatives (Photographs) (1977-1978 35mm black and white negatives with contact sheets)

1 Diskettes 3.5"

.8 Linear Feet (1976-1980 Administrative filess)

Inventory

1) Optical media 2) Sixty-two (62) VHS cassette tapes [51 dated; 6 undated; 5 blank (?)] 3) Approximately nineteen hundred (1,900) 35mm color slides (actual count = 1,859) 4) 35mm black and white negative strips and related contact sheets (Hank Meyer count =236) 5) Loose photographs (~.5 linear feet) 6) Clippings and Administrative files (~1 linear foot)