Milo Woodbridge Williams Papers
Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego
Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego
Copyright 2017
9500 Gilman Drive
La Jolla 92093-0175
spcoll@ucsd.edu
Descriptive Summary
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.
Biography
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.
Preferred Citation
Milo Woodbridge Williams Papers. SMC 76. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.
Acquisition Information
Acquired 1994.
OFF-SITE STORAGE
COLLECTION STORED OFF-SITE. ALLOW ONE WEEK FOR RETRIEVAL OF MATERIALS.
Publication Rights
Publication rights are held by the creator of the collection.
Digital Content
A selection of images from this collection have been digitized.
Processing Information
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)
Box 1, Folder 1
Biographical information and curricula vitae
ca. 1960-1980
Box 1, Folder 2
Report of Semesters Work in Zoology
ca. 1935
Box 1, Folder 3
Stranger in Alaska
ca. 1936
Box 1, Folder 4
Report of My Summer Work in Biology
1939
Box 1, Folder 5
Suggested Procedure for Processing Collections of the Museum of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography. By Sam Hinton
1947 July
Box 1, Folder 6
The Anthomedusan Genus Cladonema in the Pacific
ca. 1947
Box 1, Folder 7
The Ecology of Zostera Marina
ca. 1948
Box 1, Folder 9
Battle Against Barnacles
1955
Box 1, Folder 10
Carnival in Trinidad
1958
Box 4, Folder 1
Aquarium maintenance
ca. 1946
General note
Notes and illustrations, including paper entitled "Maintenance of Balance Marine Aquaria" by Williams and a comical illustration
by Sam Hinton.
Box 4, Folder 2
Chlamydoconcha orcutti clams
undated
Box 4, Folder 3
Cladonematidae hydrozoans
ca. 1947
General note
Notes and sketches on Cladonema species.
Box 4, Folder 4
Lepidopterists' Society
1957
Box 4, Folder 5
M.S.
Stranger Sea Scout Expedition
1986-1991
General note
Commemorative material from 50th anniversary of cruise that Williams attended as photographer between 1935-1937.
Box 4, Folder 6
National Aquarium
1978-1981
General note
Notes, correspondence and promotional material detailing the efforts of the National Aquarium Society in preventing the institution
from being closed by proposed administration budget cuts. Includes 35mm color slides from the "Save the National Aquarium"
demonstration on March 20, 1981.
Box 4, Folder 8
Yellowstone antelope
1955
PHOTOGRAPHS AND SLIDES
Scope and Content of Series
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 created from original nitrate negatives. 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.
A) SIO: Includes images of equipment and work at sea, campus scenery and personnel.
B) San Diego: Includes images of the 1916 Panama-California Exposition in Balboa Park taken by Williams's father, kelp beds,
coastal scenery and marine mammal shows at Sea World.
C) Marin County: Includes images of cultural events, ranches and landmarks, activities of the College of the Pacific Marine
Station and miscellaneous scenery.
D) California Academy of Sciences: Includes images of the Steinhart Aquarium and CAS scientists.
E) M.S.
Stranger Sea Scout Expedition: Images of crew and scenery from an expedition that travelled from Mexico to British Columbia in 1937.
Includes images of Alaskan native peoples.
F) Photography Assignments: Assorted images from Williams' contract and freelance work, arranged chronologically between 1941
and 1994. Subjects of note include the American Osprey conservation project in Baja California, the Southwest Research Station,
FAO activities in the Middle East, Canyonlands National Park and pinniped conservation work on San Miguel Island.
G) Personal Trips and Miscellany: Miscellaneous images, arranged chronologically between 1936 and 1988. Subjects of note include
San Francisco, Yosemite National Park, Japan and Rome. Also includes collected images of Hayward and Castro Valley and Christmas
Tree Lane in Altadena, California taken by Milo Woodbridge, Sr. circa 1910.
Equipment and work at sea
Box 4, Folder 9
Guadalupe Island cruise
1946
General note
35mm color slides.
Box 4, Folder 10
Test dredge on E.W.
Scripps
1946
General note
Includes photographs of Martin Johnson, King Cooper and Williams.
Box 4, Folder 11
Students examine plankton haul on E.W.
Scripps
ca. 1947
Box 4, Folder 12
Martin Johnson conducting dredging trip off Pt. Loma
1948
Box 4, Folder 13
Offshore sand ripple study
1948
Box 4, Folder 15
Building fish traps for aquarium
1949
Box 4, Folder 16
Sam Hinton tests high-speed plankton net
ca. 1949
Box 4, Folder 17
E.W.
Scripps collecting plankton samples
1950
Box 4, Folder 18
Nansen bottle launched from M.S.
Horizon
1950
Box 4, Folder 19
Technician with plankton net on R/V
Horizon
1952
Box 4, Folder 20
Miscellaneous
1948-1950
General note
Included images of scientific gathering and work at sea, including marine biology field trips, plankton nets, "buoy boat"
ocean bottom studies and kelp gathering. Assorted 4x5" b/w negative and color slides.
Box 4, Folder 21
Eugene Clark, Carl Hubbs and Betty Kampa on beach
1946
Box 4, Folder 22
John Laurence and Sam Hinton dress Frank Haymaker for a dive off Guadalupe Island
1946
Box 4, Folder 24
Robert Lester Wisner in wetsuit
1948
Box 4, Folder 26
Unidentified man carrying equipment from beach
1948
Box 4, Folder 27
Martin Johnson with plankton net
ca. 1949
Box 4, Folder 28
Carl Hubbs and Sam Hinton whale-watching
ca. 1950
Box 4, Folder 29
Unidentified SIO scientists examine plankton in jar
ca. 1950
Box 4, Folder 30
Leslie Hinton, Woody Williams and Sam Hinton
1997
Box 4, Folder 31
Kelp on Scripps Beach
1937
Box 4, Folder 32
Staff picnic
1945
General note
Includes images of Peter McHugh, Denis Fox, Carl Hubbs, C. K. Tseng and Sam Hinton.
Box 4, Folder 33-34
Miscellaneous photographs of SIO campus, pier and scenery
1945-1950
Box 5, Folder 1
Miscellaneous photographs of Scripps Aquarium-Museum
1948-1951
Box 5, Folder 2-3
Miscellaneous
ca. 1945-1950
General note
Miscellaneous images of people, scenery and activities. 35mm b/w negative slide strips.
Box 5, Folder 4
Panama-California Exposition in Balboa Park
1916
General note
Images of people and scenery in Balboa Park, taken by Milo Woodbridge, Sr. Original b/w negatives and prints.
Box 5, Folder 5
Kelco kelp cutter
ca. 1947
Box 5, Folder 6
Kelp beds off La Jolla
1948
Box 5, Folder 7
La Jolla and Torrey Pines beaches
1948-1950
Box 5, Folder 9
Marine mammal shows at Sea World
1967
General note
Includes images of dolphins, orcas and porpoises in their enclosures.
Drakes Bay annual picnic gatherings
1914-1916
Drake's Landing commemorative cross at Drakes Bay, California: between 1914 and 1919
First annual picnic of the English-Speaking Union at Drakes Bay: 1914 September 1
Second annual picnic of the English-Speaking Union at Drakes Bay: 1915 June 23
Second annual picnic of the English-Speaking Union at Drakes Bay: 1915 June 23
Third annual picnic of the English-Speaking Union at Drakes Bay: 1916 June 25
Third annual picnic of the English-Speaking Union at Drakes Bay: 1916 June 25
General note
Group photographs of clergy and attendees, given to Williams by Inverness neighbor Hazel Snell Schreiber (b. 1886). Original
b/w nitrate negatives were scanned for preservation.
Box 5, Folder 10
Inverness fair and barbecue
1949
Box 5, Folder 11
Inverness Yacht Club rededication
1950 July
Box 5, Folder 12
Drakes Bay commemorative site dedication
ca. 1950
Box 5, Folder 13
Drakes Bay salvage cruise
1951 September
General note
Drakes Navigators Guild employed
The Salvager to search for small vessel rumored to have been left by Francis Drake in 1579.
Box 5, Folder 14
Tomales Bay Fourth of July sailboat race
ca. 1951
Box 5, Folder 15
Inverness Volunteer Fire Department annual carnival
ca. 1953
Box 5, Folder 16
Permanente wheel chair folk dancers performing in Inverness
ca. 1954
Box 5, Folder 17
Fourth of July races on the Sir Francis Drake Highway through Inverness
ca. 1950
Box 5, Folder 18
Inverness Volunteer Fire Department attends school in San Francisco
ca. 1950
Box 5, Folder 19
Miscellaneous photographs of Inverness Elementary School events
ca. 1950
General note
Includes images of America Sings choir, maypole festival and nativity play.
Box 5, Folder 21
Deep Ravine Beach Camp
1950
Box 6, Folder 2
Grandi Ranch dairy, Point Reyes Station
ca. 1950
Box 6, Folder 3
The McClure Brothers at the Pierce Point Dairy Ranch
ca. 1950
Box 6, Folder 4
Sheep rancher Roy Parks and sons, Sonoma County
ca. 1950
Box 6, Folder 5
Point Reyes Lighthouse
ca. 1950
Box 6, Folder 6
Point Reyes National Seashore
ca. 1950
General note
Miscellaneous images of coastal landscape, scenery and activities.
Box 6, Folder 7
Tomales Bay Bishop pines
ca. 1950
Box 6, Folder 8
Monarch butterflies at Stinson Beach
ca. 1950
Box 6, Folder 9
Shell Beach, Tomales Bay
ca. 1950
Box 6, Folder 10
Oyster harvesting in Drakes Bay
1949-1950
General note
Images of Tomales Bay Oyster Co. "Oyster Jack" at work.
Box 6, Folder 11
Hazel Snell Schreiber at "The Gables" home in Inverness
ca. 1950
Box 6, Folder 12
College of the Pacific Marine Station
ca. 1950
General note
Miscellaneous images of students and staff conducting work at sea and on Dillons Beach. People include Raymond Osborne, Robert
Menzies and Joel Hedgepeth.
Box 6, Folder 13
Frank della Rosa with 1920s Ford truck
ca. 1950
General note
Former maitre d'hotel for Roberts at the Beach.
Box 6, Folder 14
Rite Price Market in Inverness
ca. 1950
General note
Includes images of store opening and aftermath of fire that destroyed it.
Box 7, Folder 1-3
Miscellaneous photographs of Marin County
1945-1956
General note
Assorted images of Marin County landscape, scenery, and people, including shots of Tomales Bay, Inverness and Drakes Bay.
Box 7, Folder 4
Miscellaneous photographs of Inverness
1950-1953
General note
Includes photographs of Inverness Lodge and Inverness Park.
Box 7, Folder 5
Miscellaneous photographs of St. Columba's Episcopal Church
ca. 1950
General note
Includes photographs of church services and confirmations.
California Academy of Sciences
Box 7, Folder 6
Steinhart Aquarium
1948-1953
Box 7, Folder 7
Cecil Tose creating exhibits for African Hall
ca. 1948
Box 7, Folder 8
Edward Ross mounting butterflies
ca. 1948
Box 7, Folder 9
Edwin Van Dyke in his study
ca. 1949
Box 7, Folder 10
Robert Orr and Mary Lou Perry examine beached Beaked whale on beach
1950
Box 7, Folder 11
Alice Eastwood and Tom Howell in the botany department
ca. 1950
Box 7, Folder 12
Alice Eastwood leads botany trip to Pt. Reyes
ca. 1950
Box 7, Folder 13
Construction of planetarium
ca. 1950
M.S.
Stranger Sea Scout Expedition
Box 7, Folder 14
Miscellaneous photos of crew
1937
Box 7, Folder 15
Miscellaneous photos of crew and scenery
1937
General note
Includes photographs of Alaskan natives and scenery.
Box 7, Folder 16
Mexico
1937 February-April
Box 7, Folder 17
Galapagos Islands
1937 March
Box 8, Folder 1
Gulf of California
1937 April
Box 8, Folder 2
Baja California
1937 April
Box 8, Folder 3
Cape Flattery, Washington
1937 June
Box 8, Folder 5
British Columbia
1937 September
Box 8, Folder 6-7
Miscellaneous slide strips
1937
General note
Miscellaneous images from cruise. Original b/w negative slide strips.
Box 8, Folder 8
Stillman Berry at home in Redlands, California
1941
Box 8, Folder 9
Velero IV dredging and coring off Catalina Island
1941
Box 8, Folder 10
American Osprey conservation project in Baja California with Karl Kenyon aboard
Seven Seas
1946
General note
35mm color slides.
Box 8, Folder 11
Stillman Berry with Bayard McConnaughey and Edmund C. Jaeger at Berry's home
1946
Box 8, Folder 12
Philip R. Park Inc. kelp-cutting operation in San Pedro, California
1947
General note
35mm color slides.
Box 8, Folder 13
Portraits of Karl Kenyon
1947, 1982
Box 8, Folder 14
Entymologist Monte Cazier at the Southwest Research Station
1948
Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) trips
Box 8, Folder 15-18
Afghanistan
1952
General note
Miscellaneous photographs of local people and scenery, including photos of FAO personnel assisting with agriculture extension
services and "Children's Day."
Box 9, Folder 1-2
Ceylon (Sri Lanka)
1952
General note
Miscellaneous photographs of local people and scenery, including religious monuments and villages.
Box 9, Folder 3-5
Pakistan
1952
General note
Miscellaneous photographs of local people and scenery, including city scenes in Karachi.
Box 9, Folder 6
William Beebe Tropical Research Station
ca. 1953
General note
Photographs of William Beebe at work, wildlife and scenery.
Box 9, Folder 7
Bates Wilson in Canyonlands National Park
1961-1962
General note
Bates Wilson served as the first superintendent of Canyonlands National Park.
Box 9, Folder 8
Southwestern Research Station, American Museum of Natural History
1952
Box 9, Folder 9
Spike Jones at Calneva Resort in Lake Tahoe
1952
General note
Photographs of American musician and bandleader Lindley Armstrong "Spike" Jones performing and socializing in resort dining
room.
Box 9, Folder 10
Street parade for General James Van Fleet
1953
General note
General Van Fleet commanded the 8th Infantry Regiment during the Korean War. 2x2" color slides.
Box 9, Folder 11
New Method Fur Dressing Company
ca. 1954
Box 9, Folder 12
American arachnologist Willis John Gertsch at the American Museum of Natural History
1958
Box 9, Folder 13
Samuel Stillman Berry visits the National Museum of Natural History
ca. 1958
General note
Photographs of American marine zoologist S. Stillman Berry interacting with museum personnel. Folder includes 35 mm b/w negative
slides.
Box 9, Folder 14
Southwestern Research Station, American Museum of Natural History
1961
General note
Includes photographs from "entomological trek" through the Chiricahua Mountains. 4x5" b/w negative and color slides.
Box 10, Folder 1-5
San Miguel Island, Channel Islands National Park
1984, 1994
General note
Miscellaneous images of scenery, wildlife (including Catalina Island Fox) and personnel from pinniped conservation projects
and energetics studies conducted by the Marine Mammal Laboratory on San Miguel Island. Includes many images of fur seals and
sea lions in Adams Cove, project personnel tagging animals and conducting fieldwork and pinniped pups. Also includes images
of project participant and conservationist Karl Walton Kenyon.
Personal Trips and Miscellany
Box 10, Folder 6
Hayward and Castro Valley, California
ca. 1910
General note
Assorted photographs of city and country scenery mounted on scrapbook paper. Photographer unknown.
Box 10, Folder 7
Christmas Tree Lane in Altadena, California
1916
General note
Images of visitors and their vehicles, taken by Milo Woodbridge, Sr.
Box 10, Folder 8
Death Valley
1936
General note
Images of Williams' Pomona College classmates Jack Ford and Sid Arnold on spring break.
Box 10, Folder 9
Flood at Pomona College, Claremont
1938
Box 10, Folder 10
San Francisco
1948-1953
General note
Miscellaneous photographs, including shots of city life, Carquinez Strait, San Francisco Bay, the Golden Gate Bridge and the
Benecia ferry.
Box 10, Folder 11
San Francisco (cont.)
1948-1953
Box 10, Folder 12
Sonoma County
1950
General note
Includes photographs of Fort Ross and Bodega Bay. 4x5" b/w slide negatives.
Box 10, Folder 13
Angel Island, San Francisco Bay
ca. 1950
Box 10, Folder 14
Highway bridge entering Sacramento
ca. 1950
Box 10, Folder 15
Benecia, California
1953
General note
Photographs of old railroad station and old state house. 4x5" b/w slide negatives.
Box 10, Folder 17
Martinez-Benicia Ferry, San Francisco
1953
Box 10, Folder 18
Rockefeller Center
ca. 1954
Box 11, Folder 1
Yosemite Falls, California
ca. 1960-1970
Box 11, Folder 2
Anhinga in water with bream fish impaled on beak
1968
Box 11, Folder 4
Skipjack boats in Annapolis harbor for Chesapeake Bay Appreciation Day
1968
Box 11, Folder 5
Cape Hatteras Lighthouse, North Carolina
ca. 1969
Box 11, Folder 6
Pu'uhonua o Honaunau National Historical Park ("City of Refuge"), Hawaii
1972
General note
Photographs by Jerry Shimals.
Box 11, Folder 7-8
Japan
1979 December -1980 January
General note
Includes images of Atsuta Shrine, New Year's celebration in Nagoya, Kiyomizu-dera Temple in Kyoto and Mt. Nachisan area.
Box 11, Folder 9
Yosemite National Park
ca. 1980-1990
Box 11, Folder 10
Edinburgh Castle construction
1989
General note
35mm b/w negative slide strips.
Box 11, Folder 11
Oyster, Virginia
ca. 1990
General note
35mm b/w negative slide strips.
Box 11, Folder 12
Unidentified trip
ca. 1990
General note
35mm b/w negative slide strips.
Box 11, Folder 13
Yellowstone National Park
1993
General note
Photographs of the Minerva Terrace at Mammoth Hot Springs.
Box 11, Folder 15-17
Miscellaneous
ca. 1952-1988
General note
Locations include Egypt, Sugar Loaf Mountain in Maryland, Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks, Mount Rushmore and Washington
D.C.