Conversations with Helen Hugggins Wells and Diane Porter Cooley, descendents of Charles Loyal Huggins, pioneer Berkeley city engineer; oral history transcript.

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Descriptive Summary

Title: Conversations with Helen Hugggins Wells and Diane Porter Cooley, descendents of Charles Loyal Huggins, pioneer Berkeley city engineer; oral history transcript.

Dates: 2002

Collection Number: OH--Wells

Creator/Collector:

Extent: 1 v (vii, 62 l.) : ill ' 29 cm.

Repository: Berkeley Historical Society

Berkeley, California 94704

Abstract: Oral history interview conducted by Paul Grunland, Carmel, CA,in 1999-2000.

Language of Material: English

Access

The collection is open for research

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Preferred Citation

Conversations with Helen Hugggins Wells and Diane Porter Cooley, descendents of Charles Loyal Huggins, pioneer Berkeley city engineer; oral history transcript.. Berkeley Historical Society

Scope and Content of Collection

Family background and life in Berkeley; career of Charles Huggins as city engineer; laying out Marin Circle and other streets; changes in Berkeley architecture; Huggins's work for Mason-McDuffie; University of California, Berkeley, and Huggins Scholarship in Civil Engineering