Photographs
Subject
Subject Source: Tgmi
Found in 312 Collections and/or Records:
William White Collection
Collection
Identifier: OCH-WIW
Abstract
The William White Collection is comprised of four photograph albums primarily documenting the British military experiences of White family members serving in China in the 1920s, and their family life in China through the late 1940s.
Dates:
1914-1962
Found in:
Special Collections & Archives
Ron Wilkins Los Angeles Community Alert Patrol Collection
Collection
Identifier: URB-CAP
Abstract
The Ron Wilkins Los Angeles Community Alert Patrol Collection contains Wilkins’s published book, original Community Alert Patrol (CAP) materials including a volunteer roster and patrol reports, related news clippings, and Wilkins’s teaching materials and speeches about CAP. Ron Wilkins was the head of the Community Organizing Patrol, founded in June 1966 to "police the police." The materials document police brutality and racism in Los Angeles, California focusing on the time period following...
Dates:
1966-2023
Found in:
Special Collections & Archives
Captain Leonard H. Williams Chinese Maritime Customs Collection
Collection
Identifier: OCH-CLW
Abstract
Captain Leonard H. Williams was a British national born December 12, 1906 in Cape Town, South Africa. He served as an officer within the Marine Department of the Chinese Maritime Customs Service from 1936-1949. The collection includes official documents from Williams' time with the Chinese Maritime Customs, including his memo of service, identification papers, and correspondence. The collection also contains photographs, a diary, a farewell certificate, an unofficial register of WWII-era sea...
Dates:
1930-circa 2004
Found in:
Special Collections & Archives
Eliot and Hazel Wittenberg Collection
Collection
Identifier: OCH-EHW
Abstract
Eliot Wittenberg served in the U.S. military in China at the close of World War II. The Eliot and Hazel Wittenberg Collection documents his work as a control tower operator through photographs and souvenir ephemera he brought back from China.
Dates:
1943-1945
Found in:
Special Collections & Archives
Ethel Wohlfert Scrapbook Collection
Collection
Identifier: SC-EWS
Abstract
The Ethel Wohlfert Scrapbook Collection consists mostly of correspondence, with some additional news clippings and ephemera from 1938 to 1945. A majority of the correspondence is from Wohlfert’s brother-in-law, Albert Wohlfert, who was a sergeant in the United States Air Force stationed at Hickam Field in Honolulu, Hawaii, before being sent to Europe during World War II.
Dates:
1938-1945
Found in:
Special Collections & Archives
Women's Suffrage Collection
Collection
Identifier: SC-WSU
Abstract
The Women's Suffrage Collection consists of pamphlets, broadsides, and ephemera documenting debates and events surrounding the late 19th- and early 20th-century women's suffrage movement in the United States. It includes materials arguing both in favor of and against the enfranchisement of women, especially prints of some of Elihu Root's anti-suffrage speeches; two racist, anti-suffrage broadsides from the Brown Printing Company of Montgomery, Alabama; broadsides opposing Woodrow Wilson's...
Dates:
circa 1880-1917
Found in:
Special Collections & Archives
World War II Joke and Humor Collection
Collection
Identifier: SC-WWJH
Abstract
The World War II Joke and Humor Collection consists of jokes, poems, rhymes, letters, cartoons, and other humorous materials read by and exchanged between soldiers serving in World War II. Common topics are sex, women, military life, commanding officers, and Hitler. Most items are hand-written, though some possibly copied out of magazines and other publications as there are multiple copies in different hands. A few items are type written, or small pamphlet...
Dates:
ca. 1941-ca. 1945
Found in:
Special Collections & Archives
World War II Soldier Photograph Album
Collection
Identifier: SC-WWSP
Abstract
The World War II Soldier Photograph Album documents the non-combat life of an unidentified soldier. Most images feature fellow soldiers and include handwritten notes on the front and back of some of the photos. The photo album includes snapshots of nurses, men eating and drinking in dining halls, soldiers’ living quarters, an outdoor performance space, and more. The photo album also included a loose newspaper clipping titled “Eddie M. Norton of Milstead reports the following address” with a...
Dates:
ca. 1939-1945
Found in:
Special Collections & Archives
Harry Wugalter Collection
Collection
Identifier: OCH-HWC
Abstract
Harry Wugalter was a United States Marine who served in Northern China from 1945-1947. The collection contains copies of photographs taken by Wugalter during his tour in China, and includes photographs of Marines, Japanese prisoners of war, Allied internees, and local Chinese and Russians who interacted with the troops. Also included is a letter written by Wugalter and published in the China Marine Association's newsletter, Scuttlebutt, about his time in...
Dates:
1945-1994; Majority of material found within 1945-1947
Found in:
Special Collections & Archives
Ralph J. Wyatt California Missions Lantern Slides
Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 30700112662795]
Identifier: SC-CMLS
Abstract
The Ralph J. Wyatt California Missions Lantern Slides contains lantern slides of California Missions taken by Pasadena photographer Ralph J. Wyatt, and used as educational aids in Santa Monica City Schools.
Dates:
ca. 1920-1953
Found in:
Special Collections & Archives