Papers of Sara Yorke Stevenson, 1890-1921

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Papers of Sara Yorke Stevenson, 1890-1921

1890-1921

http://connelly.lasalle.edu/record=b597185~S6

Sara Yorke Stevenson, archeologist, Egyptologist, civic leader, newspaper editor and columnist, was one of the principal founders of what is now the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archeology and Anthropology. In 1894 she became the first woman to receive an honorary degree from Penn. Stevenson served as Curator of the Egyptian and Mediterranean Section and member of the Museum's governing board from 1890 to 1905 when she resigned, apparently because of the way the board handled disputes surrounding Hermann Hilprecht, Curator of the Babylonian Section. Stevenson was a founder and first president of the Equal Franchise Society, co-founder and two-term president of the Civic Club (a women's group pushing for reform and civic improvement), chair of the French War Relief Committee of the Emergency Aid of Pennsylvania, and had a leadership role in many other Philadelphia charitable organizations. For more than a decade she was also literary editor and columnist for the Philadelphia Public Ledger, writing under the pen names "Peggy Shippen" and "Sallie Wistar." These papers were removed in 2006 from a home once lived in by Stevenson's friend Frances Anne Wister. They cover the full range of Stevenson's interests. Highlights include her newspaper clippings and comments on the Hilprecht dispute, copies of hundreds of letters to her from her good friend William Pepper, Jr. (physician, provost at Penn and civic leader), and letters to her from many other Philadelphia notables.

1 linear foot ; in 3 file boxes (32 x 40 x 18 cm.) + 1 folder list (3 p. ; 28 cm.)

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La Salle University, Connelly Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 7974076

La Salle University, Connelly Library

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Hilprecht, H.V. (Hermann Vollrat), 1859-1925

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Hermann Vollrat Hilprecht was born in Germany on July 28, 1859. He attended the University of Leipzig where he studied theology, law, and Semitic Languates. Hilprecht received his Ph.D. in 1883, and emigrated to the United States three years later where he became oriental editor of the SUNDAY SCHOOL TIMES in Philadelphia. That same year he was appointed a lecturer in Egyptology at the University of Pennsylvania, later being appointed to the Clark research professorship of Assyriolog...

Pepper, William, 1843-1898

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William Pepper was provost of the University of Pennsylvania from 1880 to 1890. The University commissioned Muybridge to complete his animal locomotion studies under their auspices. The results were published in 1887. From the description of William Pepper papers on Eadweard Muybridge, 1883-1898. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122566066 Physician and professor of medicine of Philadelphia. From the description of Papers, 1872-1886, Philadelphia. (Duke University)....

Stevenson, Sara Yorke, 1847-1921

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6jx941m (person)

In the early years of the Museum, until its administrative reorganization by G.B. Gordon in 1910, the Egyptian/Maditerranean Section was a semi-autonomous unit on the same level as the other two Sections (Babylonian, African/Other), each run by one curator who answered directly to the Museum Board of Managers. The curators often had other roles, and Board Members performed minor curatorial duties. This Archives collection begins with the first curator of the Mediterranea...