Back to Berkeley

I wasn't really done at Berkeley. There was another archive to see - the Water Resources Center Archives. There they had the files of Derleth, Dean of Engineering at Berkeley and consulting engineer for the GGB. His papers were interesting, corroborating much of what I had seen already. At the WRCA I had to do my own copying, and had to fortify myself with dimes to copy the many letters and articles that appeared interesting.

I worked there all day. Librarian Paul Atwood kindly helped me to search for dissertations on the bridge, done by students at Berkeley and Stanford. We found the 2003 dissertation entitled "Paying the toll...." It was mostly about the funding of the bridge and had little to say about Strauss. I need to get my hands on a 1958 dissertation that looks promising....

At day's end I whisked over to the Bancroft Library, but only in time enough to learn their policies. I suspect they have photographs that might be of interest, but I have already seen some of them posted on the internet. Perhaps my retracing those steps is not necessary.