Oakland, Berkeley, and the University of California, 1880-1895 : oral history transcript / Mary McLean Olney ; tape recorded interviews conducted by Willa K. Baum. Regional Cultural History Project, University of California, Berkeley, Calif., 1963 : and related material, 1963.

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Oakland, Berkeley, and the University of California, 1880-1895 : oral history transcript / Mary McLean Olney ; tape recorded interviews conducted by Willa K. Baum. Regional Cultural History Project, University of California, Berkeley, Calif., 1963 : and related material, 1963.

Recollections of her father, John Knox McLean, pastor of 1st Congregational Church of Oakland; description of life in Oakland and in Berkeley; life as a student at the University, 1891-1895. Photographs inserted.

Transcript : [179] leaves ; 28 cm. + related material.

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McLean, J. K. (John Knox), 1834-1914

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Willa Klug Baum was a nationally prominent oral historian and long-time director of the Regional Oral History Office at the Bancroft Library, U.C. Berkeley. She was born in Chicago in 1926, and grew up in Europe and Ramona, California. She graduated from Whittier College, but work and family obligations kept her from completing her Ph.D. in history at Berkeley. Instead Baum joined ROHO as an editor and interviewer, and became head of the program in 1958. During her years as director over 1,600 i...