The California Woman : typescript, 1978 June.

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The California Woman : typescript, 1978 June.

Address delivered at annual meeting of the Friends of the Bancroft Library. Included is information on members of her family and on Julia Morgan.

21 leaves ; 28 cm.

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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...

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