Image / Miss Maurer with Chinese woman, U.S.I.S. hospital, approx. 1925

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Title: Miss Maurer with Chinese woman, U.S.I.S. hospital, approx. 1925
Date Created and/or Issued: [1925?]
Contributing Institution: California State Library
Collection: California History Section Picture Catalog
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Description: View no. 3 of 4.
2013-1703.
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.
Removed from: Katharine R. Maurer Collection, 1913-1977.
Type: image
Format: Portraits.
Photographs.
Nonprojected graphic
Extent: 1 photographic print ; 4 1/2 x 2 3/4 in.
Identifier: (C)001501722CSL01-Aleph
Language: English
Subject: Maurer, Katharine R.,, 1881-1962--Portraits
Canadian Americans--California--San Francisco--Photographs
Chinese Americans--California--San Francisco--Photographs
Social workers--California--San Francisco
San Francisco (Calif.)--Biography--Portraits
Photographic prints
Portrait photographs
Place: California
San Francisco
San Francisco (Calif.)

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