Sara Yorke Stevenson

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Sara Yorke Stevenson (Mrs. Cornelius Stevenson) (1847-1921) was an American archæologist, born in Paris, July Monarchy France.

She was educated in Paris at the Cours Rémy and the Institut Descauriet, and resided in Mexico from 1862 to 1867. She was prominently connected with the department of archæology at the University of Pennsylvania for many years, and became president of the department in 1904. She was also secretary of the American Exploration Society in 1897 and of the Pennsylvania branch of the Archæological Institute of America in 1899-1903; and in 1893 was vice president of the jury on ethnology at Chicago.

For the purpose of archæological investigations she visited Rome and Egypt. After 1908 Mrs. Stevenson served as assistant curator of the Pennsylvania Museum. In 1909 she was president of the Pennsylvania Equal Suffrage Society.

Besides papers and articles on archæology, she wrote Maximilian in Mexico (1909), and she became literary editor of the Philadelphia Public Ledger.

Sara Yorke Stevenson is also credited with establishing the first collegiate-level course in training museum professionals in the United States, which she taught at the Pennsylvania Museum and School of Industrial Arts, now known at The University of the Arts, in Philadelphia.

[edit] External links

• Works by Sara Yorke Stevenson at Project Gutenberg

This article incorporates text from an edition of the New International Encyclopedia that is in the public domain.