Papers, 1914-1992, bulk 1937-1955.

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Papers, 1914-1992, bulk 1937-1955.

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The accession includes over 1,000 original negatives, hundreds of photographic slides and prints, transparencies, and papers of "Woody" Williams, a professional photographer who was a graduate student and laboratory technician at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography from January 1947 to February 1948. The collection consists largely of photographic negatives, prints and slides taken at SIO by Williams in 1947 and 1948, including images of work at sea, social events, photographs of marine life and marine environments, and photographs of individuals. The collection includes photographs of Samuel Stillman Berry, Brian Boden, Wesley Coe, Gifford Ewing, Denis Fox, Samuel Hinton, Joel Hedgepeth, Carl Hubbs, JJohn Isaacs, Douglas Inman, Martin Johnson, Karl Kenyon, Roger Revelle, Marston Sargent, Francis Shepard, Robert Wisner and others. Most photographs are in black and white, but there are some color transparencies. The accession includes some images taken of marine biologists and work at sea undertaken by other oceanographic institutions including the Hancock Foundation, UCLA, the California Academy of Sciences and a few private individuals. The accession includes photographs and descriptions of the voyages of M.S. STRANGER owned by Fred E. Lewis during the period 1934-1937 when it was used for cruises by the sea scouts. Williams' papers include letters, journals and other material describing voyages of M.S. STRANGER, especially the 1937 cruise to Alaska. The accession includes a few photographs dated 1914 which were taken by Hazel Schreiber and show scenes in Inverness, Point Reyes and Drakes Bay. Ms. Scheiver gaver her original negatives to Williams. The accession includes a small quantity of biographical information on Williams and a small quantity of correspondence describing his career as a nature photographer.

2 ms box + 1 archival shoe box and slides in cabinet.

University of California, San Diego, UC San Diego Library; UCSD Library

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University of California, San Diego, UC San Diego Library; UCSD Library

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Dr. Samuel Stillman Berry was a U.S. marine zoologist who specialized in cephalopods. He received a B.S. (1909) from Stanford and his M.S. (1910) from Harvard. He then returned to Stanford for his Ph.D. work on cephalopods and got his doctorate in 1913. From 1913 until 1918, he worked as a librarian and research assistant at the Scripps Institution for Biological Research in La Jolla, California. He became a renowned malacologist, publishing 209 articles and establishing 401 mollusc taxa. Most o...

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Hinton, Sam, 1917-2009

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Hedgepeth, Joel Walker, 1911-

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Kenyon, Kern Ellsworth, 1938-

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Shepard, Francis P. (Francis Parker), 1897-1985

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Shepard (1897-1985). Marine geologist (Submarine canyons; study of sediment samples from numerous ocean floor environments to show continuous rise in the sea rather than intermediate stage higher than present level). B. A., Harvard, 1919; Ph. D., University of Chicago, 1922. Principal affiliations: University of Illinois, 1922-1946 and Scripps Institution of Oceanography, 1942- From the description of Papers, 1921-1985 (bulk 1934-1979). (University of California, San Diego). WorldCat...

Hubbs, Carl L. (Carl Leavitt), 1894-1979

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American ichthyologist and naturalist born Williams, Arizona October 18, 1894. Received A.B. (1916) and A.M. (1917) degrees from Stanford and Ph. D. (1927) University of Michigan. After three years at the Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, Hubbs served as Curator of Fishes at Michigan's Museum of Zoology (1920-1944) and Professor of Biology at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UCSD (1944-1969). From the description of Papers, 1897-1989, bulk 1920-1979. (University of Ca...

Johnson, Martin W. (Martin Wiggo), 1893-1984

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Inman, Douglas L. (Douglas Lamar), 1920-

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Isaacs, John D. (John Dove)

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Coe, Wesley R. (Wesley Roswell), 1869-1960

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Schreiver, Hazel.

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Boden, Brian P., 1921-

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