COLLECTION NAME:
Merze Tate Collection
Record
Identifier:
exwaVMTC_07a_Scrapbook_bk
Title:
Vernie Merze Tate Photograph Album 4
Title:
Merze Tate’s Photographs from Europe while attending Oxford
Date:
1932-1934
Creator:
Tate, Merze, 1905-1996
Description:
Green scrapbook of black and white photographs taken when Merze Tate attended Oxford University, England, from 1932-1934. In 1932, she won an Alpha Kappa Alpha fellowship for foreign study to Oxford University where she received a degree in International Relations in 1935. The majority of the photographs feature the University of Oxford buildings, her room mates, and architecture from England. Also included in the scrapbook are newspaper clippings of the floodlighting during Oxford’s Jubilee celebration, a team rowing competition, a wedding invitation dated June 8, 1933, views of Windsor Castle and Château d'Échuilly, a ticket to the performance of La Locandiera at the hall of the Taylorian Institute dated December 1, women and children from Holland, and the Martin Luther monument in Dresden, Germany.
Publisher:
Western Michigan University
Subject:
Photograph albums
Subject:
Oxford (England)--Buildings
Subject:
Historic buildings--England--Oxford.
Subject:
University of Oxford--Students
Subject:
Tate, Merze, 1905-1996--Travel--Europe
Subject:
Architecture--England--Pictoral works
Subject:
Women college students
Subject:
African American students
Subject:
Clothing and dress--England--History
Keywords:
black-and-white photographs; Ships; Team rowing; Weddings
Person Identified:
Senior, Hugh Stanley
Person Identified:
Gairdner, Eleanora Mary
Building Identified:
University of Oxford
Building Identified:
Windsor Castle
Building Identified:
Le château de Chabrignac (France)
Places Identified:
Oxford (England)
Places Identified:
Dresden (Germany)
Time Period:
Nineteen thirties
Source:
Vernie Merze Tate Collection. Photograph Album 4 - Pictures from Europe (Box 7). Western Michigan University Archives
Language:
eng
Rights Status:
In Copyright
Access Rights:
Digital reproduction published by Western Michigan University Library and made available for private study, scholarship or research use under applicable U.S. Law. Access to digital reproductions provided by the Western Michigan University Archives and Regional History Collections, Zhang Legacy Collections Center.
Collection:
Merze Tate Collection
Date Digital:
2023