Julia Morgan architectural drawings, 1907-1929.

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Julia Morgan architectural drawings, 1907-1929.

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Consists of Morgan's drawings, chiefly from her partnership with Ira Wilson Hoover and records from her own firm, for the years 1907-1929. Contains pencil sketches, along with blueprints, linens, and one specification for Morgan's commissions, primarily residential, in San Francisco, the East Bay, including Berkeley, Oakland, and Piedmont, as well as other California communities.

91 oversize folders, 8 tubes, and 1 portfolio (18.7 linear ft.)Selections of drawings for 84 projects : 4 microfilm reels : negatives (MNEG 00-181, 00-182, 00-183, 00-186) and positive.

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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...

Morgan and Hoover.

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Hoover, Ira Wilson.

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Ira Wilson Hoover came from Philadelphia to the San Francisco Bay Area with John Galen Howard in the 1890s, and served as his chief draftsman until about 1907, when he became Julia Morgan's junior partner. In 1917 he returned to the East Coast. From the description of Ira Wilson Hoover architectural clipping books, [ca. 1909-ca. 1914] (University of California, Berkeley). WorldCat record id: 38366253 ...