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MSS 109
Porter, Sarah Harvey,
1856-1922
Gallaudet University Archives.
Descriptive Summary
Repository:
Gallaudet
University Archives Administrative Information
Acquisition
Information:
Unknown.
Related Material
in the Archives: Manuscripts · Collection, 1888-1922. Gallaudet University Archives, Call Number: MSS 30.
Small Manuscripts · Papers, Sarah Harvey Porter, [191-?]. Gallaudet University Archives, Call Number: SMSS
· Sarah H. Porter. Gallaudet University Archives, Call Number: Deaf Biographical.
Biographical Sketch Sarah H. Porter was born at Sutton, New Hampshire on July 21, 1856. She took a teacher training course at the Salem Normal School in Salem, Massachusetts and she taught four years in a publics chool and became fascinated with deaf education. Later, she taught at the Clarke School in Northampton, Massachusetts. She wrote a book called The Life and Times of Anne Royall which was a classic of early Washington life. She also wrote an article, “Society and the Orally Restored Deaf-Mute” which drew the attention of Dr. E.M. Gallaudet. In 1885, he invited her to become a Kendall Schoolteacher. Ms. Porter taught as a teacher until the Normal Department was established in 1891, she became an instructor of the normal department. While teaching, she completed her college education at George Washington University and received the degree of Master of Arts in 1901. Ms. Porter was an advocate of the combined system and wrote an article on the subject, “The Suppressing Signs by Force.” In 1911, she gave up teaching children and devoted her time entirely to lectures and training of the normal. In September of 1922, Ms. Porter was given a year’s leave of absence. She went to her summer home enar Keene in the Adirondack Mountains of New York. She was able to gather some materials about the psychology of the deaf but was not able to complete her writings. She died a sudden death with tuberculosis on October 1, 1922.
Sarah Harvey Porter collection contains
two boxes of notebooks with her handwriting. The collection, which
consists of 26 notebooks, has no dates. The collection covers several
subjects related to her research for Psychology of Deafness such as
attention, bibliography, classes of the deaf, control processes in
modified handwriting: an experimental study, desire, emotions, Galton’s
Inquiries with Human Faculties, Imitation, Instincts and Tendencies,
Professor Day’s language tests, Psychology monographs, random observation
and quotations, rhythms, sight, signs, smell, and will. No Series.
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