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Finding Aid to the Lonnie H. Wilson Photograph Archive, approximately 1950-1985
BANC PIC 1992.029
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Description
Documentary photography by photojournalist Lonnie Wilson, chiefly comprising news negatives from Oakland, Berkeley, and other
locations in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Background
Paraphrase from Wilson's obituary in the San Francisco Chronicle, Saturday, October 15, 1988: Lonnie Wilson, an award-winning
photographer for the Oakland Tribune for 47 years, died October 14, 1988. He was 71. A native of Georgia's Henry County, Mr.
Wilson joined the Tribune in 1940 after working as a wire photo operator for Associated Press. When he retired in January
1988, he had long been chief photographer for the Tribune. "Lonnie Wilson was an indefatigable warrior, an inspiration to
his colleagues," said Robert C. Maynard, editor and president of the Tribune. "The work and presence of this great veteran
will be sorely missed. " Mr. Wilson grew up in Atlanta and attended the Georgia Evening School of Technology. After joining
the Tribune, he was drafted into the Army in 1941. He served as a photographer for Yank magazine, traveling to Guadalcanal,
Fiji, Okinawa, Samoa and other areas in World War II. During his career, he won awards from the National Press Photographers
Association, San Francisco Press Club, California Press Photographers and numerous other groups.
Extent
115,000 photographs
: approximately 115,000 negatives in 90 boxes, and approximately 300 photographic prints in 7 boxes
: chiefly black and white
; various sizes
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