Julia Morgan Papers 1835-1958 (bulk 1896-1945)

  1. Resources
  2. View Resource

ArchivalResource

Julia Morgan Papers 1835-1958 (bulk 1896-1945)

http://www.oac.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/kt9s2030pj

This collection contains architectural drawings and plans, office records, photographs, correspondence, project files, student work, family correspondence, and personal papers from the estate of California architect Julia Morgan, who practiced in San Francisco during the first half of the twentieth century. The bulk of the collection extends from 1896, when Morgan left for Paris to study architecture at the Beaux-Arts, to 1945 when her practice began to wind down. A persistent misperception exists that she destroyed records from her fifty-year practice when she retired in 1951. In fact, she carefully preserved many original architectural drawings and other business records, which were given to California Polytechnic State University by her heirs. The National Board of the YWCA; Earl and Wright, Consulting Engineers; Mr. and Mrs. William Randolph Hearst, Jr.; and other donors who wish to remain anonymous have made significant additional donations to the collection, which are also included in this guide.

99 boxes, 25 flat file drawers, 12 tubes, 7 artifacts

fre,

eng,

ger,

ita,

Special Collections, Robert E. Kennedy Library

Information

SNAC Resource ID: 6662110

Related Entities

There are 8 Entities related to this resource.

Panama-Pacific International Exposition (1915 : San Francisco, Calif.)

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w619409s (corporateBody)

Panama-Pacific Exposition held in San Francisco, Cal. in 1915, where Illinois had a visitors' building. From the description of Register of visitors, Feb. 1915-Dec. 1915. (Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library). WorldCat record id: 49393876 History of the Panama Pacific International Exposition San Francisco hosted the Panama Pacific International Exposition in 1915. Officials from the Exposition printed postcards for the ...

Young Women's Christian Association of the U.S.A.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6wx1qqp (corporateBody)

Records of the YWCA's programs and activities among blacks began in 1907. From the description of Records, 1920. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 232007201 The YWCA of the Mid-Peninsula opened in 1948 as a recreation center for business women. It expanded to provide recreational and social services for women that met the organization's mission of "empowering women and eliminating racism." The organization was based in Palo Alto until its closing in 2003. ...

Hearst Castle (Calif.)

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w60w41pp (corporateBody)

Steilberg, Walter, 1886-1974

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6zk5kkx (person)

Biographical Note Walter T. Steilberg, noted California architect and engineer, was born on May 12, 1886, in Louisville, Kentucky. In 1890, his parents, Willie and Matilda, relocated the family to San Diego County, where they took up ranching. As a young man, Steilberg worked briefly for architects Irving Gill and Myron Hunt. While studying for his architecture degree at UC Berkeley, Steilberg joined the practice of John Galen How...

Hearst, William Randolph, 1863-1951

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w63g5f2r (person)

William Randolph Hearst Sr. (April 29, 1863 – August 14, 1951) was an American businessman, newspaper publisher, and politician known for developing the nation's largest newspaper chain and media company, Hearst Communications. His flamboyant methods of yellow journalism influenced the nation's popular media by emphasizing sensationalism and human interest stories. Hearst entered the publishing business in 1887 with Mitchell Trubitt after being given control of The San Francisco Examiner by his ...

Hearst, Phoebe Apperson, 1842-1919

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w60w95h0 (person)

Phoebe Elizabeth Apperson Hearst was born in St. Clair, Missouri, the daughter of Drucilla (Whitmire) and Randolph Walker Apperson. In 1860, businessman George Hearst met Phoebe when he returned to St. Clair to care for his dying mother. When they married on June 15, 1862, George Hearst was 41 years old, and Phoebe was 19. Soon after their marriage the Hearsts moved to San Francisco, California, where Phoebe gave birth to their only child, William Randolph Hearst. As a very successful miner wh...

École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts (France)

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6q34r1f (corporateBody)

Morgan, Julia, 1872-1957

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6nt1n1p (person)

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...