Collection materials consist of photographs and scrapbooks from Wright's naval time in the Philippine Islands and China.

Vaughn Forest Wright, naval career officer, served in World Wars I and II. He was a Chief Petty Officer in the Navy Medical Corps. He was born December 30, 1894 in Fruitvale (an Oakland District) Alameda County and died in October 3, 1951 in San Francisco. His family traveled across the plains in the 1860s and homesteaded in Tehama County. Vaughn Wright's father was Forest Henry Wright, born in Tehama County, died in El Cerrito, Contra Costa County. He served as El Cerrito's town marshal and City Treasurer.

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