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Identifier:
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exwaVMTC_07a_Scrapbook_bk
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Title:
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Vernie Merze Tate Photograph Album 4
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Title:
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Merze Tate’s Photographs from Europe while attending Oxford
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Date:
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1932-1934
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Creator:
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Tate, Merze, 1905-1996
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Description:
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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.
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Publisher:
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Western Michigan University
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Subject:
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Photograph albums
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Subject:
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Oxford (England)--Buildings
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Subject:
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Historic buildings--England--Oxford.
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Subject:
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University of Oxford--Students
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Subject:
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Tate, Merze, 1905-1996--Travel--Europe
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Subject:
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Architecture--England--Pictoral works
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Subject:
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Women college students
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Subject:
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African American students
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Subject:
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Clothing and dress--England--History
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Keywords:
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black-and-white photographs; Ships; Team rowing; Weddings
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Person Identified:
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Senior, Hugh Stanley
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Person Identified:
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Gairdner, Eleanora Mary
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Building Identified:
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University of Oxford
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Building Identified:
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Windsor Castle
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Building Identified:
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Le château de Chabrignac (France)
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Places Identified:
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Oxford (England)
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Places Identified:
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Dresden (Germany)
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Time Period:
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Nineteen thirties
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Source:
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Vernie Merze Tate Collection. Photograph Album 4 - Pictures from Europe (Box 7). Western Michigan University Archives
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Language:
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eng
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Rights Status:
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In Copyright
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Access Rights:
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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.
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Collection:
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Merze Tate Collection
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Date Digital:
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2023
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