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Languages:
English
Contributing Institution:
Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego
9500 Gilman Drive
La Jolla 92093-0175
Title: Milo Woodbridge Williams Papers
Creator:
Williams, Milo Woodbridge, 1917-2012
Creator:
Schreiber, Hazel Snell, -1957
Identifier/Call Number: SMC 0076
Physical Description:
4.4 Linear feet
(11 archives boxes and digital files)
Physical Description:
3.32 Gigabytes
Date (inclusive): 1910-1997
Abstract: Papers and photographs created by Milo Woodbridge Williams, who was a graduate student at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography
from 1947-48 and a professional photographer.
Scope and Content of Collection
Papers and photographs created by Milo Woodbridge Williams, who was a graduate student at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography
(SIO) from 1947-48 and a professional photographer. Subjects of note include the 1937 M.S.
Stranger Sea Scout Expedition, the National Aquarium, SIO, Marin County and the Marine Mammal Laboratory on San Miguel Island.
Arranged in two series: 1) PAPERS and 2) PHOTOGRAPHS AND SLIDES.
Series 1) PAPERS: Includes biographical material, writings, correspondence and subject files. This series also contains notes,
correspondence and promotional material documenting the activities of the National Aquarium Society between 1978 and 1981.
Series 2) PHOTOGRAPHS AND SLIDES: Includes a variety of photographic formats, including prints, black and white negatives,
color transparencies, 35mm film strips, slides and digital images. Arranged in seven subseries: A) SIO, B) San Diego, C) Marin
County, D) California Academy of Sciences, E) M.S.
Stranger Sea Scout Expedition, F) Photography Assignments and G) Personal Trips and Miscellany.
Milo Woodbridge "Woody" Williams (1917-2012) was a professional photographer who attended the Scripps Institution of Oceanography
as a graduate student between 1947 and 1948. He developed a lifelong passion for nature and photography at an early age and
served as quartermaster and photographer to the 1937 M.S.
Stranger Sea Scout Expedition before completing his B.A. in natural sciences at Pomona College in 1940. Between 1940 and 1941 he held
a teaching fellowship in zoology at the University of Southern California, before enlisting in the U.S. Air Force where he
served from 1941 to 1945. After World War II Williams worked as a freelance photographer, accompanying Karl Kenyon on an American
Osprey conservation project in Baja California in 1946.
Williams worked as a laboratory technician and studied marine biology at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography from 1947-1948,
and went on to pursue his combined interests in nature, journalism and photography with various jobs as a photojournalist
for the California Academy of Sciences, the
Marin Independent Journal and the Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO). In 1955 he moved to Washington D.C., where he worked for
National Geographic as a naturalist, writer and photographer until 1961. He then joined the National Park Service, where he retired as a chief
photographer in 1980. He is remembered as a lifelong naturalist and freelance photographer who held a passion for sharing
nature with others.
Milo Woodbridge Williams Papers. SMC 76. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.
Acquired 1994.
COLLECTION STORED OFF-SITE. ALLOW ONE WEEK FOR RETRIEVAL OF MATERIALS.
Publication rights are held by the creator of the collection.
A selection of images from this collection have been digitized.
Six decomposing nitrate negatives created by Hazel Schreiber were discovered when the collection was processed in 2017. The
negatives were scanned and destroyed; the images are available on the UC San Diego Library Digital Collections website.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Marin County (Calif.) -- Pictorial works
Photographs
Williams, Milo Woodbridge, 1917-2012 -- Archives
Scripps Institution of Oceanography -- Pictorial works
Stranger Sea Scout Expedition (1937)