Meritt, Lucy Shoe, 1906-2003

Lucy T. Shoe Meritt began her career as a student, teacher, and scholar of classical archaeology and architecture in 1915, when at the age of nine she saw the stereoptical views of Pompeii in the Memorial Hall Museum in Philadelphia.

Her interest in the classics was heightened at college where she was trained by her teachers to "see what you look at" and to ask "what is the significance." She received her bachelor's degree from Bryn Mawr College in 1927, her master's in 1928 and her doctorate in 1935.

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