Renaissance of religious art and architecture in the San Francisco Bay area, 1946-1968 : oral history transcript / tape recorded interview conducted 1981-1984 by Micaela DuCasse and Suzanne B. Riess for the Regional Oral History Office, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley, Calif

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Renaissance of religious art and architecture in the San Francisco Bay area, 1946-1968 : oral history transcript / tape recorded interview conducted 1981-1984 by Micaela DuCasse and Suzanne B. Riess for the Regional Oral History Office, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley, Calif., 1985 : and related material, 1981-1985.

Interviewees include: William J. Monihan, Elio Benvenuto, Emily Michels, Robert Brennan, Ethel Souza, William Justema, Louisa Jenkins, Maria Luisa Wolfskill, Mary Erckenbrack, Antonio Sotomayor, Paul Ryan, Micaela DuCasse, Mario Ciampi, Stephen DeStaebler, Charles Warren Callister, Vivian Cummings, Harold W. Cummings, Robert Olwell, Lucienne Bloch Dimitroff, Stephen Dimitroff, Mark Adams, Victor Ries, Ruth Levi Eis.

Transcript : 2 v. + related material.

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