Eleanor Sherman Font (May 31, 1896-Sept. 8, 1982)[1] was hired as prints curator at the Hispanic Society of America before expanding into iconography.[2][3] She was one of six women chosen by Archer Milton Huntington to deepen their knowledge in art curation for the Society after graduating from library sciences programs. Her great-grandfather is Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet, founder of the American School for the Deaf in Hartford.[4] She was deaf and volunteered for deaf causes throughout her life.[4] During her life, she participated in services at St. Ann's Church for Deaf-Mutes, where she "sang" in American Sign Language with others in the choir.[5]
References
edit- ^ "Eleanor Sherman Font's grave". Find A Grave. Archived from the original on November 28, 2019. Retrieved January 11, 2019.
- ^ "History". Hispanic Society of America. June 19, 2015. Retrieved November 1, 2019.
- ^ "Font, Eleanor Sherman | Gallaudet University Library Guide to Deaf Biographies and Index to Deaf Periodicals". liblists.wrlc.org. Retrieved November 1, 2019.
- ^ a b "Eleanor Sherman Font". The New York Times. September 7, 1982. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved November 1, 2019.
- ^ "Eleanor Sherman, Deaf, gg of Thomas Gallaudet & Elizabeth Budd". St. Louis Post-Dispatch. February 4, 1940. p. 74. Retrieved November 1, 2019.
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