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.
Milo Woodbridge Williams Papers, 1910-1997 (SMC 76)
Extent: 4.4 Linear feet (11 archives boxes), + 3.32 GB of digital files
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.
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.
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.