Morgan Papers: Exploring the Correspondence of California’s First Female Architect

paper, specified "long paper"
Authorship
  1. 1. Zach Vowell

    California Polytechnic State University

  2. 2. Ethan Kusters

    California Polytechnic State University

  3. 3. Luca Soares

    California Polytechnic State University

  4. 4. Samuel Verkruyse

    California Polytechnic State University

  5. 5. Joey Wilson

    California Polytechnic State University

  6. 6. Foaad Khosmood

    California Polytechnic State University

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Conference Info

In review

ADHO - 2020
"carrefours / intersections"

Hosted at Carleton University, Université d'Ottawa (University of Ottawa)

Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

July 20, 2020 - July 25, 2020

475 works by 1078 authors indexed

Conference cancelled due to coronavirus. Online conference held at https://hcommons.org/groups/dh2020/. Data for this conference were initially prepared and cleaned by May Ning.

Conference website: https://dh2020.adho.org/

References: https://dh2020.adho.org/abstracts/

Series: ADHO (15)

Organizers: ADHO