Julia Morgan Collection, 1836-1980.

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Julia Morgan Collection, 1836-1980.

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Personal and professional papers reflecting family life and friendship; office records, photographic materials, and architectural drawings and blueprints from her practice. Includes correspondence with William R. Hearst (3 boxes), Phoebe Apperson Hearst, Pierre and Lucy LeBrun, Bernard Maybeck, Bernard and Agnes Chaussemiche, Arthur Byne, and Mildred Stapley Byne, Marion Davies, Walter Steilberg, Charles Cassou, George Loorz, Herbert Washburn, Dorothy Coblentz, Thaddeus Joy, Bjarne Dahl, Charlotte Knapp, Sachi Oka, Jules Suppo, Albert O. Parmelee, Elizabeth Woodland Parmelee Morgan, Charles Morgan, Avery Morgan, Emma Morgan North, Gardner Morgan, Parmelee Morgan, Morgan North, Flora d'Ille North, Orrin Peck, Ed Trinkkeller, and John Van der Loo. Papers discuss International Studio Art Corporation, Mills College, Ecole National Supérieure des Beaux-Arts, YWCA, and Los Angeles Examiner.

30 boxes (57 linear ft.) 15 oversize file drawers (60 cubic ft.)

California Polytechnic State University, Robert E. Kennedy Library, Cal Poly San Luis Obispo

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SNAC Resource ID: 7280591

California Polytechnic State University, Robert E. Kennedy Library, Cal Poly San Luis Obispo

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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...

Hearst, William Randolph, 1863-1951

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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 Castle (Calif.)

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