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Title
Author, Peter McWilliams
Alternative Title
Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Creator
Edwards, Michael
Date Created and/or Issued
1983
Contributing Institution
Los Angeles Public Library
Collection
Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
Rights Information
Images available for reproduction and use. Please see the Ordering & Use page at http://tessa.lapl.org/OrderingUse.html for additional information.
Description
Title supplied by cataloger.
Peter Alexander McWilliams (1949-2000) was a writer of best-selling self-help books, and cannabis activist. He wrote nearly 40 books that he self-published, including "The Word Processing Book" (1982).
Photograph caption dated March 31, 1983 reads, "Should everyone on this planet have a computer? "Certainly not," says McWilliams, amused. "If you want to balance your checkbook, then I strongly recommend that you just buy a pencil and paper."
Type
image
Format
1 photographic print :b&w ;26 x 34 cm. on sheet 29 x 36 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier
00085972
Herald Examiner Collection
HE_b075_f2_i3
CARL0004778205
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/26356
Subject
McWilliams, Peter
Authors and publishers--United States
Computers--California--Los Angeles
Authors, American
Los Angeles Herald-Examiner photographs
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs
Portrait photographs
Time Period
1981-1990

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