Title:
William Carney photograph album
Creator/Contributor:
Carney, William, 1922-, creator
Abstract:
Bulk of album documents documents Carney's service in the United States Air Force during World War II in Europe, including
portraits and snapshots of Carney and other soldiers on duty and during leisure time. Includes aerial combat scenes. Other
photographs depict Carney while a student and with friends. Also pictured throughout the album is James A. Myl, a friend of
Carney and the pilot on many of his combat missions.
Date:
1941-1945 (issued)
Subject:
n-us-ca -- e------
Soldiers -- United States -- Photographs
Airplanes, Military -- Pictorial works
World War, 1939-1945 -- Aerial operations, American -- Pictorial works
Air warfare -- Photographs
Gay authors -- United States -- Photographs
Gay military personnel -- United States -- Photographs
Avions militaires -- Ouvrages illustrés
Guerre aérienne -- Photographies
Écrivains homosexuels -- États-Unis -- Photographies
Air warfare
Airplanes, Military
Gay authors
Gay military personnel
Military operations, Aerial -- American
Soldiers
United States
United States. -- Air Force -- Pictorial works
États-Unis. -- Air Force -- Ouvrages illustrés
United States. -- Air Force.
Carney, William -- 1922- -- Portraits
Myl, James A -- Portraits
Note:
Compiled by William Carney.
Various photographers including, presumably, Carney; others unknown.
Title devised by cataloger.
Transferred from the William Carney papers (BANC MSS 2001/72 c).
Gift ; Of Suzanne Goell; 2000.
Born in 1922, William Carney served in the Air Force as a gunner in World War II. Carney later taught French in the University
of California system. He published three works of Gay erotic literature in his lifetime, "The Real Thing, "A Year in the Closet,"
and "The Rose Exterminator." Carney died in 1987, at the age of 64.
Type:
graphic
Photographs.
Pictorial works.
Portraits.
Photograph albums.
Physical Description:
photoprint
1 album (215 photographic prints) : b&w ; 27 x 34 cm.
Language:
English
Origin:
Various places