Mel Lewis photograph collection, ca.1900s-1990s.
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Lewis, Melvin B.
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Melvin Lewis was born in 1917 on a ranch near Mt. Shasta, Calif. He worked as a private gamekeeper, a truck driver, a laborer with the Civilian Conservation Corps, a fire fighter for the California State Forestry Service, and as an Army Air Corps pilot in the Pacific during World War II. Following the war, he was a camera salesman for Standard Optical in Utah and Idaho before becoming an engineer for Ingersoll Rand from 1947 to 1985. From the description of The Melvin E. Lewis papers...