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Merrill, Katherine C

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Merrill, Katharine, 1895-1983

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Merrill, Katharine, 1895-1983

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Katharine Merrill was born on August 3, 1895, in Quincy, Massachusetts. Her father, John Flint Merrill, was in the real estate business. She attended Woodward Institute in Quincy, from 1909-1913 then went to Mount Holyoke College from 1913-1917. She majored in German, zoology, and physiology and received a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1917. She graduated from Harvard University Summer School of Physical Education in 1922 and received her Masters in Education from Harvard Graduate School in 1928. She worked as a high school teacher of German, biology, physical education, geography, typewriting, and girls' basketball in New York and Massachusetts from 1917-1924. She also was an actuarial clerk for Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company from 1919-1921. Merrill was a missionary teacher at the Matsuyama Girls' School in Japan from 1924-1941. She taught physical education, English, and folk dancing and earned a certificate from the Tokyo School of Japanese Language and Culture in 1933. In 1927-1928 Merrill returned to the United States and worked as a clerk at the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions in Boston while finishing her Master of Education degree from Harvard University. From 1942 until about 1954 she worked in Washington D.C. as a research analyst and Japanese translator for the Military Intelligence Service, in addition to serving as a high school German teacher and a translator for the Index Catalogue Division of the Armed Forces Medical Library. She married Knut Ahlbers in 1954 and in 1964 moved to his homeland, Sweden, where Ahlbers died. In 1968 she married Karl August Skog in Vasteras, Sweden. She died in Vasteras on November 27, 1983, at the age of eighty-eight.

From the guide to the Merrill papers MS 0571., ca. 1913-1983., (Mount Holyoke College Archives and Special Collections)

Teacher, missionary, translator.

From the description of Papers, 1917-1984. (Lewis & Clark Library). WorldCat record id: 13566532

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http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/13566532

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http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122455110

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Merrill, Katherine C

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Papers, 1790-1951.

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Papers, 1790-1951.

Title: Papers, 1790-1951.

Correspondence of various members of the Ward and Howe families, andcompositions of Julia Ward Howe.

ArchivalResource: 22 boxes (8 linear ft.)

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Merrill, Katharine, 1895-1983

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Miscellaneous art exhibition catalog collection

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Miscellaneous art exhibition catalog collection

Title: Miscellaneous art exhibition catalog collection

Primarily exhibition catalogs for modernist art exhibitions held in New York City during the first two decades of the twentieth century. Also included are catalogs for Boston exhibitions, mainly pre-1900, and a few other locales; exhibition announcements; gallery publications; and other printed material.

ArchivalResource: 4.4 Linear feet

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Merrill, Katharine, 1895-1983

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Papers, 1917-1984.

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Merrill, Katharine, 1895-1983. Papers, 1917-1984.

Title: Papers, 1917-1984.

Correspondence, articles, photographs. Includes 43 long letters written by Merrill while teaching at Matsuyama Girls' School in Japan, 1924-1940, which offer detail about the school, her travels, and life in Japan.

ArchivalResource: 1 box : ill.

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Merrill, Katharine, 1895-1983

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Merrill papers ca. 1913-1983.

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Merrill papers MS 0571., ca. 1913-1983.

Title: Merrill papers ca. 1913-1983.

Skog, Katharine Merrill Ahlbers, 1895-1983; Teacher, translator, and missionary. Mount Holyoke College graduate, 1917. Papers contain correspondence, articles and photographs; primarily consisting of correspondence commenting on her teaching and travels in Japan.

ArchivalResource: 1 box; (5 linear in.)

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Merrill, Katherine C

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Howe, Julia Ward, 1819-1910

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Howe, Julia Ward, 1819-1910
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Merrill, Katharine, 1895-1983

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American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions.

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American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions.
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Merrill, Katharine, 1895-1983

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Blakely, Bertha E. (Bertha Eliza), 1870-1962

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Blakely, Bertha E. (Bertha Eliza), 1870-1962
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Merrill, Katharine, 1895-1983

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Hoyt, Olive S. (Olive Sawyer), 1874-1966

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Hoyt, Olive S. (Olive Sawyer), 1874-1966
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Merrill, Katharine, 1895-1983

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Matsuyama Girls' School

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Matsuyama Girls' School
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Merrill, Katharine, 1895-1983

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Matsuyama Girls' School (Matsuyama-shi, Japan) - History - Sources.

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Matsuyama Girls' School (Matsuyama-shi, Japan) - History - Sources.
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Merrill, Katharine, 1895-1983

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Mrs. Malcolm's Gallery (New York, N.Y.)

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Mrs. Malcolm's Gallery (New York, N.Y.)
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Merrill, Katharine, 1895-1983

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Nourse, Dorothy Camp, 1894-1991

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Nourse, Dorothy Camp, 1894-1991
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Merrill, Katharine, 1895-1983

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Truman, David Bicknell, 1913-

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Truman, David Bicknell, 1913-
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Merrill, Katharine, 1895-1983

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Woolley, Mary Emma, 1863-1947

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Woolley, Mary Emma, 1863-1947
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China - Description and travel.

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Japan - Social life and customs - 1912-1945.

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Sweden - Description and travel.

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Japan

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United States

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Switzerland - Description and travel.

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Japan - Economic conditions - 1918-1945.

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France - Description and travel.

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Matsuyama-shi (Japan) - Description and travel.

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Japan - Description and travel.

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Name Entries

Merrill, Katherine C

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Merrill, Katharine, 1895-1983

Merrill, Katherine C

Merrill, Katharine, 1895-1983

Merrill, Katharine.

China - Description and travel.

Japan - Social life and customs - 1912-1945.

Sweden - Description and travel.

Japan

United States

Switzerland - Description and travel.

Japan - Economic conditions - 1918-1945.

France - Description and travel.

Matsuyama-shi (Japan) - Description and travel.

Japan - Description and travel.

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