| Title |
Portrait of Sarah Gompers, age 62, 1889
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| Description |
Sara Gompers, age 62, sits for a portrait, 1889. 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
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| Extent |
1 images; Photographs; monochrome |
| Date |
1889 |
| Location |
United States; North America |
| Subject(s) |
Gompers, Sarah; Portrait photographs |
| Citation |
AFL-CIO Information Department, Photographic Prints collection, Accession 2014-001-RG96-001, Series 4: Samuel Gompers, 1887-1982, Subseries 1: Photographs, Box : 3, Folder 10: Personal: Family, Parents, 1918, undated |
| Permanent Link |
https://hdl.handle.net/1903.1/38248
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| Rights |
http://vocab.lib.umd.edu/rightsStatement#UND
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| Digital Collection(s) |
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