Scope and Content

The folder contains several small black-and-white snapshots of Bill and other people on vacation in Venezuela between 1948 and 1950. Also included is Bill's International Certificate of Inoculation and Vaccination.

Scope and Content

This folder contains snapshots of Ernestine Herbert, the mother of William (Bill), Ernest (Ern), and John (Jack), as well as photos of Bill at a CSTA (California Student Teachers Association) conference in 1956 when he was President of the USC chapter. There are also photos of unidentified people, a small photo of the Herbert family tree, and a postcard of Death Valley, California.

Scope and Content

The photos in this folder are of Bill and several unnamed people during a trip to England in 1951. The only two photos whose subjects are identified say Penelope Cox and Amy Cox (Mother).

Scope and Content

This folder contains several photos of Bill in uniform in the 1940s, a couple of him with a young woman during the same time period. (It is not known whether or not she is one of the girlfriends mentioned in his correspondence with his mother.) There is also a letter from someone whose signature is illegible, but apparently the photos were sent to Bill with the letter in 1992. Also included in this folder are a few miscellaneous photos of Bill and other people from the 1950s and 60s.

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Between 1955 and 1957, Bill was apparently working at least part-time for TWA, as there are several photos of him in a TWA uniform oiling a plane and filling a Texaco oil truck at Los Angeles International Airport. There are also several postcards of TWA airplanes and a couple of the TWA rocketship at Disneyland. His TWA identification card is included in this folder.

Scope and Content

The contents of this folder consist of just one photograph which Bill had put in an envelope labeled Civil Defense 1963. However, the back of the photo itself says May 1965.

Scope and Content From the Series: The photographs in this collection help to describe some of Bill's life post-World War II and a few pre-World War II when he was a child.Almost all of the photographs are "amateur" snapshots rather than formal studio photos and consist in large part of vacation photos over the years--scenes of British Columbia, Alaska, Venezuela, etc., and various locations in California such as Yosemite, San Simeon, and Death Valley. It appears that he took some of the vacations alone; others...

Scope and Content

Postcards and photographs of Bill Herbert and Arthur Pickford in Vancouver, B.C. in May 1955. Scenes of totem poles in Thunderbird Park, Victoria as well as photos shot from a boat going from Seattle to Victoria, B.C.

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The folder contains a few postcards of Fairbanks, Mt. McKinley, and Anchorage, but many photographs of Bill and other men (identified as co-workers) on the Alaska Railroad in the summer of 1955. Some of the photos show them duck hunting or panning for gold. A brochure on the Alaska Railroad is included with the other materials; it is not known whether or not Bill was actually working there or just taking a vacation.

Scope and Content

The folder includes two strings of snapshots with scenes of Hemet, Oceanside, Mt. Palomar, Escondido, and Santa Monica Bay. The envelope gives a date of April 1956.