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George W. Trippon World War Two scrapbook and photograph albums.
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Title:

George W. Trippon World War Two scrapbook and photograph albums

Creator/Contributor:

Trippon, George W., 1916-2010, creator

Abstract:

Includes contents of scrapbook (vol. 1) documenting George W. Trippon's personal experience in the United States military during World War Two and his subsequent interest in the war, the military and related topics. Scrapbook includes original military documents, rations and ration books, patches, pins, snapshot photographs, ephemera and clippings. Collection also includes contents of a photograph album pertaining to Trippon's friends and associates, including other gays and lesbians, during his World War Two service (vol. 2), and other photograph albums pertaining to family, friends and cruise ship travel to Alaska, Greece and other locations (vols. 3-7). Very little of the material pertains to Trippon's career in fashion and entertainment. Pictured throughout much of the collection is Trippon's partner of over 60 years, James W. Price.

Date:

ca. 1942-ca. 1980 (issued)

Subject:

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World War, 1939-1945 -- Pictorial works
Soldiers -- United States -- Photographs
Gay military personnel -- United States -- Photographs
Fashion designers -- California -- Photographs
Ocean travel -- Photographs
Guerre mondiale, 1939-1945 -- Ouvrages illustrés
Couturiers (Créateurs de mode) -- Californie -- Photographies
Fashion designers
Gay military personnel
Ocean travel
Soldiers
Alaska -- Pictorial works
Greece -- Pictorial works
Alaska -- Ouvrages illustrés
Alaska
California
Greece
United States
Trippon, George W -- 1916-2010 -- Archives
Trippon, George W -- 1916-2010 -- Pictorial works

Note:

Collected and compiled by George W. Trippon.
Includes personal papers, government documents, ephemera, clippings and assorted realia.
Vols. 1 and 2 disbound for preservation pursposes. Contents rehoused into file folders.
Prints available for all negatives.
Title devised by cataloger.
Includes contents of scrapbook (vol. 1) documenting George W. Trippon's personal experience in the United States military during World War Two and his subsequent interest in the war, the military and related topics. Scrapbook includes original military documents, rations and ration books, patches, pins, snapshot photographs, ephemera and clippings. Collection also includes contents of a photograph album pertaining to Trippon's friends and associates, including other gays and lesbians, during his World War Two service (vol. 2), and other photograph albums pertaining to family, friends and cruise ship travel to Alaska, Greece and other locations (vols. 3-7). Very little of the material pertains to Trippon's career in fashion and entertainment. Pictured throughout much of the collection is Trippon's partner of over 60 years, James W. Price.
COLLECTION STORED, IN PART, OFF-SITE: Advance notice required for use.
NEGATIVES: RESTRICTED. Available for use by appointment only. Inquiries should be submitted to Bancroft Reference via the Reference Inquiry form.
Transferred from the George W. Trippon papers (2012/208).
Gift ; Of the Aurora Historical Society (Illinois) ; 2012.
George W. Trippon papers; also located at; Aurora Historical Society, Aurora, Ill.
George W. Trippon was born in Aurora, Illinois in 1916 to Romanian immigrant parents. In the 1930s his family moved to Hollywood, where George danced in musicals for the motion picture industry and apprenticed as a costume designer. Trippon served in World War Two from 1942 to 1944 and later studied fashion design in Paris on a G.I. Bill. In the 1950s he founded the Trippon Fashion Center School of Dress Design in Hollywood. From 1972 to 1994 he was the host of the television series Sew What's New. He also authored books on fashion design, and published memoirs pertaining to his partner James W. Price and his hometown of Aurora. George W. Trippon died in 2010.
Preferred citation: George W. Trippon World War Two scrapbook and photograph albums, BANC PIC 2012.117, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.

Type:

graphic
Archives.
Photographs.
Pictorial works.
Photograph albums.
Scrapbooks.

Physical Description:

photonegative
photoprint
3 boxes (ca. 550 photographic prints) and 13 negatives : color and b&w ; 34 x 30 cm or smaller.

Language:

English

Identifier:

http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/libraries/bancroft-library/reference-online

Origin:

Various places

Copyright Note:

COLLECTION STORED, IN PART, OFF-SITE: Advance notice required for use.
NEGATIVES: RESTRICTED. Available for use by appointment only. Inquiries should be submitted to Bancroft Reference via the Reference Inquiry form.

Related Item:

George W. Trippon papers : Trippon, George W., : 1916-2010
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