Bernard Maybeck collection, 1897-1956 (bulk 1902-1939)

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Bernard Maybeck collection, 1897-1956 (bulk 1902-1939)

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Consists of correspondence, office records, project records, photographs, drawings, and artifacts documenting the design work of Bernard Maybeck. Includes residences for Phoebe Hearst, Charles Keeler, Guy Chick, Leon Roos, Earle Anthony, and many others. Also contains records of his work on larger projects, such as Packard dealerships for Earle Anthony, the Panama Pacific International Exposition's Palace of Fine Arts, the University of California, Berkeley's Phoebe Hearst Memorial Complex, the campus plan for Principia College, Elsah, Illinois, First Church of Christ Scientist, Berkeley, and the Golden Gate International Exposition.

32.5 boxes, 5 flat boxes, 1 card file box, 1 oversize volume, 34 flat file drawers, 157 tubes, 8 large framed drawings, table, carved panel, plaster ornament.Selections of materials for 211 projects, personal, professional, and office records; and University of California projects, Exposition projects, and Principia College projects : 16 microfilm reels : negative (MNEG 00-341) and positive.

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Morgan, Julia, 1872-1957

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Julia Morgan (1872-1957) graduated from University of California, Berkeley's Civil Engineering department in 1894, studying architecture unofficially under Bernard Maybeck. With Maybeck's encouragement, she went on to study at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris. In 1898, Morgan became the first woman to study at the Ecole, graduating in 1900. Morgan returned to San Francisco in 1902, opening her own office in 1905. She went on to design over 700 buildings, including many local residences. ...

Panama-Pacific International Exposition (1915 : San Francisco, Calif.)

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Panama-Pacific Exposition held in San Francisco, Cal. in 1915, where Illinois had a visitors' building. From the description of Register of visitors, Feb. 1915-Dec. 1915. (Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library). WorldCat record id: 49393876 History of the Panama Pacific International Exposition San Francisco hosted the Panama Pacific International Exposition in 1915. Officials from the Exposition printed postcards for the ...

Hearst, Phoebe Apperson, 1842-1919

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Phoebe Elizabeth Apperson Hearst was born in St. Clair, Missouri, the daughter of Drucilla (Whitmire) and Randolph Walker Apperson. In 1860, businessman George Hearst met Phoebe when he returned to St. Clair to care for his dying mother. When they married on June 15, 1862, George Hearst was 41 years old, and Phoebe was 19. Soon after their marriage the Hearsts moved to San Francisco, California, where Phoebe gave birth to their only child, William Randolph Hearst. As a very successful miner wh...

First Church of Christ Scientist (Berkeley, Calif.)

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Principia College of Liberal Arts, Elsah, Ill.

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White, Mark H., 1875?-

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Palace of Fine Arts (San Francisco)

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Golden Gate International Exposition (1939-1940 : San Francisco, Calif.)

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History It has been said that with two great bridges in the course of construction, there began in San Francisco, in about 1933, a substantial feeling that a celebration or exposition should be held to commemorate their completion. As the plans for an exposition developed, it seemed fitting that its theme should be man's progress in communication, transportation, trade and industry, since these were the fields symbolized by the bridges. The S...

Maybeck, Bernard R.

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Bernard Ralph Maybeck (1869-1957) studied architecture at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris. Returning to New York, he worked for Carrere and Hastings. Maybeck sought his fortune out West in 1890, first in Kansas City, then in San Francisco. In 1890, Maybeck married Annie White, who became his office manager. In 1894 Maybeck became an instructor of descriptive geometry for the University of California, Berkeley. From 1896-1899 he orchestrated the Phoebe Hearst International Competition for the U...

Anthony, Earle C.

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Online Archive of California

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Hearst Gymnasium (Berkeley, Calif.)

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Hussey, Edward Bright.

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Edward Bright Hussey (1897-1976) graduated from UC Berkeley with a degree in architecture in 1923. He worked during the summers for Julia Morgan, and spent the summer of 1921 in San Simeon working on the Hearst Castle. Hussey was the on-site architect for a number of Morgan projects, including the Honolulu YWCA and the Tokyo YWCA. He also worked on projects by Morgan and Bernard Maybeck, such as Wyntoon and Principia College, in Elsah, Illinois. From the description of Edward Bright ...

Maybeck, Annie White, 1867?-1956.

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Phoebe Hearst architectural plan for the University of California

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