346 research outputs found
Letter, [Author unclear] to Paulina T. Merritt
No full textHandwritten letter to Paulina Merritt from an unknown author, October 1, 1876.
Handwritten biographical information on Paulina T. McClung Merritt
No full textA handwritten biography of Paulina T. McClung Merritt by an unknown author, 1892.
Merritt Eaton Cornell
No full textMerritt Eaton Cornell was a tent evangelist, leading debater and author of five doctrinal books. After the Great Disappointment (October 22, 1844) Merritt joined the "Age-to-Come" Adventists, who taught that the Jews would return to Israel and that individuals would have a second chance to be saved during the millennium
Biography of the Hon. W. H. Merritt, M.P., of Lincoln, District of Niagara, by J. P. Merritt; with annotations, marginalia and handwritten additions, ca. 1875
No full textWilliam Hamilton Merritt was the most important entrepreneur in the Niagara region in his era. His contributions to the creation of the Welland Canal and of vital transportation routes between Upper Canada and Montreal, and to points across the Atlantic Ocean are widely known to be highly significant. Merritt was also involved in railroad development and banking.The record is the biography of William Hamilton Merritt written by his son J.P. (Jedediah Prendergast) Merritt.
The pages have been annotated and cross referenced, as perhaps by the author himself or by a close family member. Additional nine pages of handwritten notes have been glued into the book as providing additional information to the content. Three newspaper clippings were added as well, with a few others missing. The inside cover of the book has been inscribed, “Merritt Collection”
Import of a mitochondrial presequence into P. denitrificans Insight into the evolution of protein transport
No full textAbstractAccording to the endosymbiont hypothesis, mitochondria are descended from ancient aerobic bacteria that were engulfed by protoeukaryotic cells. Experiments described here show that a synthetic peptide corresponding to a yeast mitochondrial targeting sequence can be imported into Paracoccusdenitrificans, a soil bacterium thought to be closely related to the protomitochondrion. The import is very similar to that observed with isolated yeast mitochondria. The results suggest that the protomitochondrion may have been inherently able to translocate mitochondrial presequences. This ability may partly explain the development of the protein import process during the evolution of the mitochondrion
The art and life of Merritt Dana Houghton in the Northern Rockies, 1878-1919
No full textIncludes bibliographical references and index.Introduction: Discovering Merritt Dana Houghton -- Finding Vantage Points: 1846-1902 -- The Grand Encampment Boom: 1902-1904 -- New Horizons: 1905-1919 -- Drawing Conclusions: A Twenty-First-Century Perspective -- Portfolio: Samples from the Houghton Portfolio
Japonisme and gender in the works of Alfred Stevens and William Merritt Chase
No full textJaponisme, a term coined by French critic Phillippe Burty in 1878, describes the Western fascination with Japanese art and culture manifested in the visual and decorative arts, architecture, music, literature, fashion, and graphic design. This thesis examines paintings of women by European artist Alfred Stevens and his friend American painter William Merritt Chase to determine what their representations of japonisme reveal about transatlantic conceptions of female gender and sexuality. I offer a comparative analysis of cultural and artistic norms in Europe and the United States by exploring ephemeral and malleable notions of ideal femininity, whose associations with japonisme include nature, fantasy, and objecthood. In a period characterized by the rise of imperialism, the increased systematic study of ethnography and physiognomy, and the frequency of World’s Fairs, Stevens and Chase maintained eclectic studio collections and rendered them in their paintings. Their pictures-within-pictures in the background of these studio scenes are a tool to assert their artistic alignments, for example, Chase’s inclusion of Stevens’s 1880 La Bête à Bon Dieu in the background of his 1892 In the Studio, Mrs. Chase. In Chase’s borrowing of Stevens’s Parisienne ideal, white, middle-class type, Chase transcribes his own realist tendencies in his images of Japanese-clad Western women. William Merritt Chase takes Alfred Stevens’s essentialized feminine forms clothed in associations of japonisme and transfers them to his uniquely American context, while retaining many of his constructions of femininity
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