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Guide to the Katharine R. Maurer Collection, 1913-1977
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Description
Clippings, correspondence, programs, poems, tributes, notes and drafts, pamphlets, reports, photographs.
Background
Katharine R. Maurer was born in Milmay, Ontario Canada, March 28, 1881. In 1912 she was appointed by Women's Home Missionary Society of the Methodist Church to serve as Deaconess with the United States Immigraion Service on Angel Island. In this occupation she spent 40 years of continuous service and retired on June 11, 1951. She died in San Francisco, June 24, 1962.
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Please credit California State Library.
Availability
Unrestricted.