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Portrait of Sarah Gompers, undated

Photograph, artistic ‧ monochrome ‧ Jump to full details ‧ Request from Special Collections

Summary:Portrait of Sara Gompers, undated. Sarah Moses Gompers was born on July 3, 1827 in Amsterdam and died on September 3, 1898 in New York, New York USA. She married Solomon Gompers and had twelve children with him. Sarah and Solomon are the parents of Samuel Gompers, the longest serving president of the AFL and a leading figure in the labor movement. Solomon, her husband, made a living in the cigar industry and moved the family to New York, New York in 1863. For complete collection information, visit the full finding aid at http://hdl.handle.net/1903.1/42579
Century:1801-1900
Place of origin – Continent:North America
Place of origin – Country:United States of America
Temporal subject: 1801-1900
Topical subjects:Portrait photographs
Gompers, Sarah
ArchivesUM location:AFL-CIO Information Department, Photographic Prints collection
  • series 4: Samuel Gompers, 1887-1982
  • subseries 1: Photographs
  • box : 3
  • folder 10: Personal: Family, Parents, 1918, undated
  • accession 2014-001-RG96-001
Repository:Historical Manuscripts
Browse terms:Personal and Family Lives
Copyright holder:Public domain
Collection:Digital Collections