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King, Lida Shaw, 1868-1932

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Personal name headingKing, Lida Shaw, 1868-1932
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Birth date1868-09-15
Death date1932-01-10
Place of birthBoston (Mass.)
Place of deathProvidence (R.I.)
Field of activityArchaeology
AffiliationVassar College
Brown University
Profession or occupationCollege teachers Deans (Education) Classicists
Found inDecorated architectural terracottas, 1929: title page (by Ida Thallon-Hill and Lida Shaw King)
Wikipedia, 15 March 2017 (Lida Shaw King, Lida Shaw King (September 15, 1868 in Boston--January 10, 1932 in Providence) was an American classical scholar and college dean; she graduated from Vassar College in 1890 and from Brown University (A.M.) in 1894 and continued her graduate studies at Vassar (1894-1895), Radcliffe (1897-1898), Bryn Mawr (1899-1900), and at the American School of Archaeology, Athens, Greece (1900-1901); she taught the classics at Vassar (1894-1897) and at the Packer Collegiate Institute (1898-1899, 1901-1902), and at Brown was assistant professor of classical philology (1905-1909), dean of the Women's College from 1905-1922, and professor of classical literature and archæology 1909-1922; she made contributions to the American Journal of Archaeology.Archaeology; she resigned from her positions at Brown in 1922 due to illness)
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