Joseph "Dick" Chaiclin was born in Connecticut in 1934, but moved to Ventura in the 1960s. He worked for the county until retiring in 2000. His father Abraham Chaiclin was an electrical and telephone engineer for Western Electric and Bell Laboratories. Dick passed away in 2009 in Oxnard at the age of 75. This collection consists largely of negatives and photographs of the Chaiclin family, and Dick's childhood and youth.

Joseph "Dick" Chaiclin was born in Stamford, Connecticut on May 10, 1934. He spent his childhood in Flushing, New York with his parents and two older sisters, Judy and Sue. His parents were Esther and Abraham Chaiclin. Abraham served in the Navy Reserve during World War I and worked as an electrical and telephone engineer for Western Electric and Bell Laboratories. Abraham was also involved in the installation and testing of Bell Telephone's trans-Atlantic transmissions in 1927, which predated the first trans-Atlantic telephone cable. Prior to the inauguration of the first trans-Atlantic telephone cable in 1956, calls between North America and Europe were radio based.

2.57 Cubic Feet (2 boxes)

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