Thomas Merton photograph collection, [ca. 1900-1973].

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Thomas Merton photograph collection, [ca. 1900-1973].

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/191918347

This collection, composed of photographs, is divided into series according to subject matter or the location at which the photograph was taken.

1,597 photographs.

Kentucky Repositories (Guide Project - Defunct), Guide Project

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SNAC Resource ID: 6962149

Kentucky Repositories (Guide Project - Defunct), Guide Project

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Merton, Thomas, 1915-1968

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6v51n84 (person)

Thomas Merton was born on January 31, 1915 in Prades, France to Owen Merton (an artist from New Zealand) and Ruth Jenkins Merton (an artist from the United States), and grew up in New York, Bermuda, France, and England. Merton studied both in Europe and America, and he received a BA and an MA in journalism from Columbia University in 1938 and 1939. In 1938, Merton converted to Catholicism. He taught for two years at St. Bonaventure College in New York before entering the Abbey of Gethsemani i...