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A Guide to the Lucy Shoe Meritt Oral History
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Creator: |
Meritt, Lucy Shoe |
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Title: |
Meritt, Lucy Shoe, oral history |
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Abstract: |
Oral history interviews capture the
recollections of noted Classics professor Dr. Lucy Shoe Meritt, including her
extensive travels, professional work, and memories of Dr. William Battle. |
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Accession No.: |
96-095; 98-283 |
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OCLC NO.: |
965500368 |
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Extent: |
11 audiocassettes, 1/2 in.
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Language: |
Materials are written in English. |
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Repository: |
Dolph Briscoe Center for American History, The
University of Texas at Austin |
Lucy 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, and she received her bachelor's
degree from Bryn Mawr College in 1927, her master's in 1928, and her doctorate in
1935.
Meritt studied at the American School of Classical Studies in Athens from 1929-1934.
It was during those years that she visited many classical sites in Greece and Asia
Minor and made the drawings of the mouldings that appeared in her book, Profiles of
Greek Mouldings, published in 1936.
She taught at Mount Holyoke College from 1937-1950. As a Fellow at the American
Academy in Rome in 1937 and 1950, she investigated architectural mouldings in Italy.
Her research was later published in two volumes, Profiles of Western Greek Mouldings
(1952) and Etruscan and Republican Roman Mouldings (1965). She worked at the Roman
site of Cosa in Tuscany and at the Greek site of Serra Orlando (Morgantina) in
Sicily. When the American School of Classical Studies in Athens established a
publications office at Princeton, she was named Editor of Publications, a post she
held from 1950-1972.
In 1972 Dr. Meritt returned to the family home in Austin, Texas and was a visiting
scholar in the Department of Classics at the University of Texas at Austin from 1973
until her death in 2003. She authored numerous publications and held many offices in
professional organizations. She received numerous awards and honors, including
honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degrees from Brown University and Hamilton
College. Meritt was considered one of the world's foremost authorities on classical archaeology with
particular reference to Greek, Etruscan, and Roman architecture, specifically
profiles of mouldings.
(adapted from Virginia Phillips, Alexander Architectural Archive)
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Oral history interviews capture the recollections of noted Classics professor Dr.
Lucy Shoe Meritt, including her extensive travels, professional work, and memories
of Dr. William Battle.
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Subjects (Persons) |
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Meritt, Lucy Shoe, 1906-2003 |
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Subjects (Organizations) |
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University of Texas at Austin.--Department of Classics. |
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American School of Classical Studies at Athens. |
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Subjects |
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Architecture, Roman. |
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Architecture, Greek. |
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Greece--Study and teaching--History--20th century. |
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Archaeology. |
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Places |
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Greece. |
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Italy. |
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Asia Minor. |
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Lucy Shoe Meritt Oral History, Dolph Briscoe Center for American History, The
University of Texas at Austin.
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Audiocassettes, recorded in 1995-1997 (more detailed description
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Tape 1: |
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Chasing mouldings of Greek architecture, Delphi,
1930 |
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Epidauros, 1930, 1991 |
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Interest in archaeology |
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Acquiring the steel Maco template,
1930 |
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Traveling in Greece,
1930-1932 |
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Getting permission to work at sites |
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Nights I have spent: Samos and Salamis,
1931-1932 |
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Effect of worldwide depression on Greece |
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Visit to Pherai, Thessaly,
1932 |
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Nights I have spent: Nemea to Styx,
1931 |
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Fourteen-mile trip to Aigosthena,
1930 |
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Trip to Crete, 1930 |
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Corinth, 1930 |
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Trip to islands of Paros, Tenos, Naxos, and Thera,
1932 |
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Background of Greek architectural mouldings,
1930 |
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Travel in northwest Greece, including Oiniadai,
1931 |
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Work and travel in Asia Minor,
1931 |
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American Academy in Rome,
1936 |
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Permission to visit Italian sites |
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Cleaning the template with Gifford Proctor |
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Work at Paestum site,
1936 |
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Visit to Sele, 1936 |
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Sicily, 1936-1937, 1957 |
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Serra Orlando, 1957 |
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Confraternita procession in Aiodone,
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Confraternita procession, continued |
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Loss of publications of American School of Classical
Studies during World War II |
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Benjamin Dean Meritt and early life of Abraham
Flexner |
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Tape 7: |
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Athenian Agora, Meritt and Flexner |
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Establishment of publications department for American
School of Classical Studies at Athens |
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Recollections of Dr. William Battle |
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American School in Rome and site visits in Italy,
1936-1937, 1949- 1950, 1957 |
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Tape 8: |
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Detailed description on use of Maco template |
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Technicalities of preparing drawings for
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Charles K. Williams and daily drawings, Serra
Orlando/Morgantina, 1957 |
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Founding and early history of American Academy in
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Visit to Dodecanese Islands, 1937 |
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Visit to King Victor Emmanuel III to American Academy,
1937, including comments on segregation policy |
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Tape 9: |
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Return to American Academy in Rome as Senior Fellow, 1949-1950 |
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Sunday walks with Inez and Cesare Longobardi |
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Etruscan and Republican Roman sites, work at Cosa, 1950 |
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Life in Rome and at the Academy, 1949-1950 |
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Sicilian expedition, 1950 |
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Return to Rome for final church visits |
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Recollections of two return trips from Italy, 1950, 1937 |
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Two audiocassettes and transcript, concerning Dr. William Battle, recorded in 1995 |
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