Kummer photograph collection
Abstract
This collection contains studio portraits, including a daguerreotype and cased albumen print, of teacher and school headmistress Sarah Agnes Kummer, and Mrs. Johnson, an employee of Kummer's school.
Dates
- 1840-1869
Conditions Governing Access
This collection is open for research use.
Conditions Governing Use
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Biographical / Historical
Sarah Agnes Kummer (1830-1872) was a teacher and school headmistress in Baltimore. A native of Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, Miss Kummer came to Baltimore as an orphan at the age of 14, and began teaching children at the school of Reverend Henry Sargent. Soon after, she was a private tutor to the children of Augustus Albert, and accompanied the family to Europe, where she remained for eleven years. Returning to Baltimore in the middle 1860s, she established a school for young women which was located, at various times, at 139 St. Paul St. and at 64 Mt. Vernon Place. At one point, she moved her institution to Paris, where she provided instruction in French for American women. Health problems compelled her return to the Baltimore, where she died of cancer in 1872. Mrs. Johnson was a housekeeper in Miss Kummers school.
Extent
0.07 Linear Feet (1 half Hollinger box)
Language of Materials
English
Arrangement
The photographs are arranged by subject.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Gift of Deborah Iddings Willson, 1983.
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of one box with two photoprints, both of which are undated studio portraits thought to have been made during the 1860s.
Two photographs from this collection were moved to Cased Photograph Collection. They are a daguerreotype of Sarah Agnes Kummer, early 1840s (no. 305), and an albumen photograph of Sarah Agnes Kummer, circa 1860, cased within a medallion (no. 306).
The collection includes three folders of printed ephemera including concert programs, travel time tables, and a menu.
- Title
- Guide to the Kummer photograph collection
- Status
- Under Revision
- Author
- Katherine Cowan
- Date
- 1999-08
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- Undetermined
- Script of description
- Code for undetermined script
- Language of description note
- English
Revision Statements
- 2020-01-25: Manually entered into ArchivesSpace by Mallory Herberger.
Repository Details
Part of the H. Furlong Baldwin Library Repository
H. Furlong Baldwin Library
Maryland Center for History and Culture
610 Park Avenue
Baltimore MD 21201 United States
4106853750
specialcollections@mdhistory.org