Mary Floyd Williams Lantern Slides Prepared for Lectures Presented by the Extension Division of the University of California. Listed at Berkeley 1941., 1924-1941

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Title:: Williams (Mary Floyd) Lantern Slides
Dates:: 1924-1941
Creators:: Williams, Mary Floyd
Abstract:
Extent:: 629 lantern slides, 2 folders correspondence and ephemera, 1 bound inventory.
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Preferred citation:: Williams (Mary Floyd) Lantern Slides. UC Berkeley, College of Environmental Design Visual Resources Center

Scope and content:: This collection of lantern slides includes slides prepared by Mary Floyd Williams from publications as well as from her own photography. Correspondence and receipts from travels in Southeast Asia in the 1920s and 1930s. A typewritten inventory of the slides indicates the source of each image.
Biographical / historical:: Mary Floyd Williams received a PhD from UC Berkeley in 1919 with her dissertation "History of the San Francisco Committee of Vigilance of 1851: a study of social control on the California frontier in the days of the gold rush." She traveled extensively in Southeast Asia in the 1920s and 1930s, and was registered as a lecturer for UC Extension in Berkeley in the 1940s.

Collection Guide Author:: Finding aid created by UC Berkeley, College of Environmental Design Visual Resources Center staff.
Date Prepared:: 1924-1941
Date Encoded:: This finding aid was produced using Record Express for OAC5 on July 14, 2025, 2:54 p.m.

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Restrictions:: Collection is open for research. Please contact the Center for availability.

Preferred citation:: Williams (Mary Floyd) Lantern Slides. UC Berkeley, College of Environmental Design Visual Resources Center

Location of this collection:: UC Berkeley, College of Environmental Design Visual Resources Center

492 Wurster Hall

Berkeley, CA 94720-1820, US