Jump to Content

Collection Guide
Collection Title:
Collection Number:
Get Items:
Boulé (David) interview with Wally G. Shidler
7120  
View entire collection guide What's This?
Search this collection
Collection Details
 
Table of contents What's This?
  • Scope and Contents
  • Conditions Governing Access
  • Conditions Governing Use
  • Rights Statement for Archival Description
  • Preferred Citation
  • Immediate Source of Acquisition
  • Related Materials

  • Contributing Institution: USC Libraries Special Collections
    Title: David Boulé interview with Wally G. Shidler
    Creator: Boulé, David
    Identifier/Call Number: 7120
    Physical Description: 0.21 Linear Feet 1 box
    Physical Description: 1.95 Gigabytes 19 computer folders and 530 computer files
    Date (inclusive): 2016-2019
    Abstract: A collection of material relating to a series of interviews with Wally Shidler, conducted by David Boulé. Wally G. Shidler is a former motion picture engineer and collector of Southern California ephemera. David Boulé is an author, researcher, and collector of items and information relating to the California citrus industry. The interview sessions combined last approximately six hours and focus on Shidler's life and activities as a collector of materials on Los Angeles history, particularly materials relating to transportation and entertainment in Southern California. The collection consists of a USB flash drive containing the audio recordings of the interview sessions, which spanned 2016 to 2017. The collection also includes two folders of printed materials, including transcriptions of the interview sessions, a folder of Wally Shidler's business cards, a short biography of Shidler, outlines and planned questions for the interviews, and a synopsis about the interview project (titled Wally's World: Los Angeles through Time & Space). The USB flash drive also contains text and image files relating to the project. All digital file and folder names from the flash drive are listed in this finding aid under the record titled "Interview audio recordings and other digital files on USB flash drive."
    Language of Material: English .

    Scope and Contents

    A collection of material relating to a series of interviews with Wally Shidler, conducted by David Boulé. Wally G. Shidler is a former motion picture engineer and collector of Southern California ephemera. David Boulé is an author, researcher, and collector of items and information relating to the California citrus industry. The interview sessions combined last approximately six hours and focus on Shidler's life and activities as a collector of materials on Los Angeles history, particularly materials relating to transportation and entertainment in Southern California. The collection consists of a USB flash drive containing the audio recordings of the interview sessions, which spanned 2016 to 2017. The collection also includes two folders of printed materials, including transcriptions of the interview sessions, a folder of Wally Shidler's business cards, a short biography of Shidler, outlines and planned questions for the interviews, and a synopsis about the interview project (titled Wally's World: Los Angeles through Time & Space). The USB flash drive also contains text and image files relating to the project. All digital file and folder names from the flash drive are listed in this finding aid under the record titled "Interview audio recordings and other digital files on USB flash drive."

    Conditions Governing Access

    Advance notice required for access. The materials described under the record titled "Interview audio recordings and other digital files on USB flash drive" consist of digital computer files preserved in the USC Digital Repository. The files are not publicly accessible online. Researchers wishing to request access should email specol@usc.edu.

    Conditions Governing Use

    All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Department of Special Collections at specol@usc.edu. Permission for publication is given on behalf of Special Collections as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained.

    Rights Statement for Archival Description

    Finding aid description and metadata are licensed under an Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) license.

    Preferred Citation

    [Box/folder no. or item name], David Boulé interview with Wally G. Shidler, Collection no. 7120, Regional History Collection, Special Collections, USC Libraries, University of Southern California

    Immediate Source of Acquisition

    Gift of David Boulé, June 1, 2021.

    Related Materials

    Collection no. 7089: Wally G. Shidler collection of Southern California ephemera: https://archives.usc.edu/repositories/3/resources/2934

    Subjects and Indexing Terms

    California, Southern -- History -- Archival resources
    California, Southern -- History, Local -- Archival resources
    California, Southern -- Transportation -- Archival resources
    Local history materials -- California -- Los Angeles -- Archival resources
    Los Angeles (Calif.) -- History -- 20th century -- Archival resources
    Born digital
    Digital images
    Interviews
    Interviews (Sound recordings)
    Transcripts
    Boulé, David -- Archives
    Shidler, Wally G. -- Interviews