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Title
[Katharine Maurer]
Date Created and/or Issued
[1929?]
Contributing Institution
California State Library
Collection
California History Section Picture Catalog
Rights Information
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Description
Shows Miss Maurer with Japanese women and children.
2013-1712.
Katharine R. Maurer was born in Milmay, Canada, in 1881 to the Rev. and Mrs. John Michael Maurer. She attended North Central College in Naperville, Illinois. Moved to San Francisco, attended the San Francisco National Training School, training to become a deaconess. In 1912, she was appointed to the Angel Island United States Immigration Service under the auspices of the Women’s Home Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Known as the Angel of Angel Island. She died in 1962.
In: Katharine R. Maurer Collection, 1913-1977. Box 243, folder no. 23.
Also have negative: no. 7765 (4x5 in.)
Type
image
Format
Portraits.
Photographs.
Nonprojected graphic
Extent
1 photographic print ; 3 5/8 x 4 5/8 in.
Identifier
(C)001501731CSL01-Aleph
Language
English
Subject
Maurer, Katharine R.,, 1881-1962--Portraits
United States. Immigration and Naturalization Service--Photographs
Canadian Americans--California--San Francisco--Photographs
Japanese Americans--California--San Francisco--Photographs
Social workers--California--San Francisco
San Francisco (Calif.)--Biography--Portraits
Angel Island (Calif.)--Photographs
Photographic prints
Portrait photographs
Place
California
San Francisco
San Francisco (Calif.)
Angel Island (Calif.)

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