Lucy Shoe Meritt collection, 1929-1970, 1995-1997.

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Lucy Shoe Meritt collection, 1929-1970, 1995-1997.

Lucy T. Shoe Meritt began her career as a student, teacher, and scholar of classical archaeology and architecture in 1915. The collection consists of documents reflecting her many publications (at different stages of publication), drawings separate from publications, correspondence, personal papers, photographic material (including slides) separate from publications, oral history audiocassettes, and miscellaneous other material.

drawings, manuscripts, photographic material, sound cassettes.

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SNAC Resource ID: 6963112

University of Texas Libraries

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American School of Classical Studies at Athens

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Meritt, Lucy Shoe, 1906-2003

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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 ...