Harriet Rochlin Collection of Material about Women Architects in the United States, 1887-1979

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Harriet Rochlin Collection of Material about Women Architects in the United States, 1887-1979

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Harriet Shapiro (b.1924) was a freelance writer and contributor of articles, feature stories, and reviews to magazines and scholarly journals. She also published the novel, (1981) and the photodocumentary, (1984). She married Fred Rochlin in 1947. The collection consists of articles, clippings, correspondence, and photographs collected by Harriet Rochlin about women architects. So far away Pioneer Jews: a new life in the far west

12 boxes (6 linear ft.)

eng,

University of California, Los Angeles. Library Special Collections.

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Morgan, Julia, 1872-1957

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Born in San Francisco, Julia Morgan (1872-1957) grew up in Oakland in a spacious Victorian house. Gifted in mathematics and encouraged in her studies by her mother, Morgan was influenced to become an architect by her mother's cousin, Pierre Le Brun, who designed an early skyscraper, the Metropolitan Life Insurance Tower in Manhattan. In 1890, she enrolled in the undergraduate civil engineering program at the University of California at Berkeley, in part because there were no architectural school...

Rochlin, Harriet, 1924-

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Harriet Rochlin, was born and raised in Boyle Heights at a time when that Los Angeles neighborhood housed the largest mixed immigrant population--mostly Jewish and Mexican-- in the West. She graduated from the UC Berkeley in June, 1947, and a month later married UC architectural student, Fred Rochlin, a Jewish native of Nogales, Arizona. Both Westerners of an unnamed sub-culture--American, Jewish, Mexican--they expressed their predilections in attachment to their natal landscapes, foods, music, ...