Brown County Ursuline Convent portrait album
Dates
- Creation: between 1867 and 1876
Scope and Contents
Album containing 37 portrait photographs of students of the Convent of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, and 1 portrait of Father Edward Purcell (1808-1881). Handwritten captions, dated 1867-1876, identify the subjects. Two pages, captioned "Chief Justice Taney" and "Margo Duer Henry," are lacking photographs.
Historical Note: Brown County Ursuline Convent
Ursuline boarding school. Established by a group of Ursuline Sisters in 1845, the Convent of the Immaculate Heart of Mary (also called the Brown County Ursuline Convent, or the School of the Brown County Ursulines) was a college-prepatory boarding school for girls, located near Saint Martin, Ohio. The school closed in 1981.
Biographical Note: Edward Purcell
Catholic priest, newspaper editor, and abolitionist. Born in Ireland in 1808, Edward Purcell was a Catholic priest in the Archdiocese of Cincinnati. His brother, John Baptist Purcell, was Archbishop of Cincinnati. As editor of the Catholic Telegraph, he espoused opposition to slavery. He died at the Brown County Ursuline Convent in 1881.
Extent
1 Volumes (38 photographs in 1 album) : 37 albumen prints, 1 tintype ; 15 x 13 cm
Language of Materials
English
Materials Specific Details
Title devised by cataloger. Photograph album bound in publisher's full leather, blind-stamped boards, with gilt-embossed title on spine, "Album."
Source
- Auger Down Books (Firm) (Organization)
- Title
- Brown County Ursuline Convent Portrait Album
- Subtitle
- between 1867 and 1876
- Status
- Marc Only
- Author
- Noah Sheola
- Date
- 2019 December 18
- Description rules
- Dcrmg
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Repository Details
Part of the John J. Burns Library Repository
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