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"- photograph by Katherine Merkel; contained in an envelope postmarked May 26, 1961. Dallas Museum of Art John Wise Archives (photocopy in Curatorial File)
**Katherine W. Merkel, Katherine C. White, and Katherine White Reswick (1929-1980) are the
same woman
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