Photographs
1930-2013
Alternate form of material
Digitized photographs in boxes 1-5 are available online through UCSC Library Digital
Collections.
Historical note
Unless otherwise noted, all photoalbums were created by Harry Mayo.
Scope and Content
This series contains photographs of Santa Cruz Surfing Club members and associated
individuals from the 1930s-1940s. Most images capture the surfing scene centered around
Cowell Beach in Santa Cruz. Also included are contemporary snapshots of Santa Cruz
Surfing Club members and other Santa Cruz community members collected by Harry Mayo.
Box 1
Santa Cruz Surfing Club photo album 1 (Jack Moore)
circa 1939-1942
Historical note
This photoalbum was created by Clubmember Jack Moore. It includes newspaper clippings
about Santa Cruz Surfing Club members and related ephemera.
Box 1
Santa Cruz Surfing Club photo album 2
circa 1939-1942
Box 2-3, Box 14
Santa Cruz Surfing Club photo albums 3-5
circa 1939-1942
Container Summary: 3
albums
Processing information
These materials were rehoused from 3-ring binders into archival quality housing. The
empty binders can be found in box 14.
Box 4, Folder 1
Santa Cruz Surfing Club group portraits
1941
Biographical Note
These group portraits of the Santa Cruz Surfing Club were taken by photographer Ed
Webber in June, 1941.
Box 4, Folder 2-3, Box 5
Santa Cruz Surfing Club miscellaneous loose photographs
circa 1930-1957
Container Summary: 2
folders, 1 box
Box 4, Folder 4
Shirley Templeman, Pat Collins, Fred Hunt
circa 1939-1940
Box 4, Folder 5
Dave "Buster" Steward
1939
Box 4, Folder 6
Santa Cruz Municipal Life Saving Corps
1949
Box 4, Folder 7
Santa Cruz Surfing Museum Opening
1986
Box 4, Folder 8
Collected reprints of historic photographs of Santa Cruz beaches
circa 1882-1904
Note on Dates
Dates reference the period in which the photographs were originally created. There
are no digitized versions of these photographs available.
Box 4, Folder 9-10
Historic Hawaiian surfing photographic reprints
1920-1967
Container Summary: 2
folders
Scope and Content
Photographs of Hawaiian athlete and surfer Duke Kahanamoku and his brothers Samuel,
David, Sergeant, Bill, and Louis Kahanamoku, Santa Cruz resident and surfer Dorothy
Becker, the Royal Hawaiian Hotel, the Outrigger Canoe Club, the Hui Nalu Club, and
other scenes of surfing in Waikiki.
Note on Dates
Dates reference the period in which the photographs were originally created. There
are no digitized versions of these photographs available.
Custodial History
These photographs were reprinted by Harry Mayo from prints owned by Tom Hickenbottom,
Santa Cruz Surfing Club member. These prints were previously owned by Club member Sam
Reid, who wrote the accompanying captions.
Box 6
Photocopies of Santa Cruz Surfing Club photographs
circa 1939-2005
1939-1941
Box 6
Collected Santa Cruz Surfing Club snapshots
circa 1980-2013
Container Summary: 3
folders
Scope and Content
Color photographs of Santa Cruz Surfing Club members, events at the Santa Cruz
Surfing Museum and statue, surfing history exhibits, and other events related to the
Santa Cruz Surfing Club.
Box 6
Harry Mayo personal snapshots
circa 1980-2013
Box 6
Santa Cruz Surfing Club photograph captions
circa 1980-2000s
Biographical Note
Captions Mayo intended to match with various Santa Cruz Surfing Club photographs in
the collection.
Box 12
Harry Mayo surfing and Surfing Museum 20th Anniversary celebration
photographs
ms0405_med_0003
2006
Physical Description: 93 Digital
Files
Physical Description: 1 DVD
Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements
Digital file format .jpg
Access
Digital files are available in the UCSC Special Collections and Archives reading
room. Access to digital files on original carriers is prohibited; users must request
to view access copies. Contact Special Collections and Archives in advance to request
access to digital files.
Conditions Governing Use
"Photos by Boots McGhee"
Box 13
Oversize Santa Cruz Surfing Club photographs
1941, undated
Box 15
Bob Gillies Santa Cruz Surfing Club photo album
circa 1935-1986
Scope and Contents
One photo album created by Bob Gillies, featuring photographs of Santa Cruz Surfing
Club members. These photographs have not been digitized.
Santa Cruz Surfing Club Records
1941-2013
Administrative History
The Santa Cruz Surfing Club was founded in 1936 by several Santa Cruz teenagers and
other young surfers from California. They operated a clubhouse at Cowell Beach from the
late 1930s throughout the 1940s, around which much of their surfing activity
centered.
Scope and Content
This series contains correspondence, mailing lists, registration forms and bank
statements related to several Santa Cruz Surfing Club reunions, as well as planning
documentation and other materials related to the Santa Cruz Surfing Sculpture, which was
funded and developed in part by Club members. Early documentation of Club finances,
materials related to other Club projects, and Club logo and T-shirt designs are also
included.
Box 6
Membership dues receipt books
1941-1950
Box 6
Pacific Coast Surfing Championships correspondence
1949
Box 6
25th anniversary reunion
1961
Box 6-7
45th anniversary reunion
1981-1983
Container Summary: 4
folders
Box 7
50th anniversary reunion
1985-1986
Box 7
West Cliff Drive realignment
1982
Box 7-8, Box 13
Santa Cruz Surfing Sculpture
1986-1996
Container Summary: 13
folders
Scope and Content
Meeting minutes of the Santa Cruz Surfing Sculpture Committee, correspondence, lists
of donors, planning documentation, blueprint, signs, programs, ephemera, awards,
clippings, and other materials related to the funding, design, placement,
construction, and dedication of the Santa Cruz Surfing Sculpture.
Box 8
Blake Turner memorial scholarship
1986
Box 8
Santa Cruz Surfing club ephemera and designs
1988-2013
Box 8
"Surf City" designation correspondence
1992-2004
Box 8
Surfin' Santa Cruz UCSC Extension Multimedia
Production Workshop
1993
Box 8, Box 13
Santa Cruz Surfing Museum newsletters and ephemera
1986-2010
Container Summary: 2
folders
Box 9
California Legislature Assembly Certificate of Recognition
2010
Box 9
Santa Cruz Surfing Club histories
1986-1996
Collected Surfing History Materials
1939-2011
1980-2010
Scope and Content
This series contains clippings, newsletters, newspapers, magazines, posters, ephemera,
and several home movies and commercial films related to the activities and history of
the Santa Cruz Surfing Club, Santa Cruz surfing, and the history of surfing in general.
Also included is a small amount of Harry Mayo's personal correspondence and biographical
information.
Box 9, Box 13
Clippings
1939-2011
1980-2005
Container Summary: 8
folders
Box 9
The Juice: Northern California's Surf Magazine
Vol. 3, Nos. 1-3
1995-1996
Box 10
Santa Cruz Longboard Union Invitational programs
1988-2010
Box 12, Box 10
Surfing ephemera
circa 1940s-1950s, 1986-2006
1986-2006
Container Summary: 1
folder, 1 small box
Scope and Content
Stickers, flyers, brochures, greeting cards, pins, and other ephemera related to
Santa Cruz surfing, and surfing history in general.
Box 10
Harry Mayo correspondence
1981-2010
Box 10
Harry Mayo "Old Timer of the Year" biography
2004
Box 13
Water-Logged move poster
circa 1962
Box 13
North Coast Surf Press Vol. 1, Nos.
2-3
1998-1999
Box 13
Santa Cruz Surfing and Ocean Sports Vol. 1,
No. 2
1982
oversize Cabinet D, Drawer 15
Santa Cruz Longboard Union Invitational posters
2006, 2008
oversize Cabinet D, Drawer 15
Cowell's and the New Millennium movie
poster
circa 2004
oversize Cabinet D, Drawer 15
Endless Summer II movie poster
circa 1994
oversize Cabinet D, Drawer 15
Santa Cruz County Convention and Visitors Bureau tourism poster
circa 1990s
oversize Cabinet D, Drawer 15
Santa Cruz Surfing Museum poster
circa 1990s
Film and Video
1929-2010
Processing Information
All titles were devised from notes written on containers.
Access
Access to original copies of film, video, and other media is restricted and requires
advance notice. Access copies must be made prior to research use. Please contact
Special Collections and Archives to request access to media.
Box 11
Rockaway Surfers
undated
Note
Includes name and address of Rob A. Kehoe on box.
Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements
8mm film
Box 11
16mm films
1929-1966
Custodial History
"Donated by Roger Murray" is written on film reels.
San Clemente Surfcapades
1966
Custodial History
"Mac Reed from Marge Calhoun" written on reel.
Buster's Tape
undated
Custodial History
Business card of Mac Reed of Surf City attached to reel.
Unidentified film "2"
undated
Wedding, A Day at Bookdale with Venus Gillen, Stubby Kiff, Betty
Horning
undated
Home to Arroyo Seco color shots
1929
Marge and Elise at Clear Lake, Aromas Pam Seacliff
1931
Willy Spivey Prompter flight at Watsonville High gym
undated
House, Pono in garden, "Bug" kids, Roice car, river party, Boardwalk,
train stop
circa 1939
Clear Lake, Arroyo Seco, Borax Lake, Guerneville
1931-1932
Fox Theater, GILA monster, Roadrunner vs. Rattle Snake, Cobra vs.
Mongoose
undated
A trip to Hobergs, Lincoln, Clear Lake
circa 1949
Santa Cruz beach, Boardwalk, Don Patterson
1929
Car down road, speed boat, Boardwalk, diving off pier
1929
Surfin' Santa Cruz
1993
Container Summary: 2
copies
Publication Rights
UC Santa Cruz Extension Multimedia Production Workshop. July 23-26, 1993. Harry
Mayo, Tom Hickenbottom, Richard Schmidt, Jane MacKenzie. "Harry's photos."
Santa Cruz Surfing Club 50 year reunion
1986
Clear Water Maverick's
1999
ESPN Surfing (Hal)
undated
NBC/CBS news reports Surfing Museum
1986
Neat Stuff
Surf, Sand and
Stuff
1997
Twenty Feet Under
1997-1998
Box 12
DVDs
1992-2010
Physical Description: 4 Digital
Files
Physical Description: Four DVDs
Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements
Digital file format .mkv
Access Restrictions
Digital files are available in the UCSC Special Collections and Archives reading
room. Access to digital files on original carriers is prohibited; users must request
to view access copies. Contact Special Collections and Archives in advance to
request access to digital files.
Three Princes Plaque dedication ceremony ms0405_med_0004
2010 April 09
Three Princes Day (additional footage of
plaque dedication ceremony)
ms0405_med_0004
2010 April 09
Conditions Governing Use
Produced by Dylan Greiner/Santa Cruz Surf School.
Santa Cruz Surf Statue dedication ceremony ms0405_med_0006
1992 May 23
Surfing Santa Cruz
ms0405_med_0006
2010
Conditions Governing Use
Compiled by Kim W. Stoner.
Scope and Contents
Video compilation of news stories featuring Santa Cruz surfing culture, photo
slideshow with music, and 2009 city council meeting that addressed Surfing Museum
funding.