Sumner Moore Kirby Portrait
- Title:
- Sumner Moore Kirby Portrait
- Collection:
- Campus Artifacts, Art & Memorabilia
- Creator:
- Unknown
- Donor:
- Kirby Conahey, Mrs. Gloria (daughter of Sumner Moore Kirby)
- Photographer:
- Espinosa de los Monteros, Pamela
- Date:
- ca. 1966
- Acquisition Date:
- 1966
- Location:
- Uris Library, Sumner M. Kirby Memorial Room, Cornell University
- ID Number:
- artsdb_0271
- Accession Number:
- W84-38.5
- File Name:
- artsdb_0271.jpg
- Work Type:
- portraits
- Materials/Techniques:
- Oil
- Subject:
- Kirby, Sumner Moore, 1895-1945
- Measurement:
- 25 x 35 (inches)
- Description:
- Portrait of Sumner Moore Kirby (1895- 1945) a student of Cornell from 1915-1917. Sumner Moore Kirby is the son of American businessman and philanthropist Fred Morgan Kirby, a founding director of the F.W. Woolworth Company and original partner of the Woolworth American five and dime cent stores [“Kirby, Fred Morgan” Marquis Who's Who, Inc, and Credo Reference (Firm). 2008. Marquis Who was who in America, 1607-1984. [New Providence, NJ]: Marquis Who's Who. http://www.credoreference.com/book/marqwas
Encyclopedia of American Studies, s.v. "Five-and-Dime Stores," accessed May 31, 2012, http://www.credoreference.com.libezproxy2.syr.edu/entry/jhueas/five_and_dime_stores]. Sumner Kirby was born in Wilkes Barre Pennsylvania on September 5, 1895. He was a student in the College of Arts class of 1919. Kirby served in the Navy during WWI [Ancestry.com. World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2005] and was living in Nice, France during WWII. During the invasion of the allies, Kirby was arrested and killed shortly after by Nazis "Sumner, Moore Kirby,” Alumni Deceased Files, Cornell University Libraries. Later information found in documents held by the French national archives indicate that he died in the Leau concentration camp near Bernberg, Germany on April 7, 1945. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library]. This portrait is part of the Sumner M. Kirby Room and Sumner M. Kirby Memorial Fund dedicated by Allan P. Kirby to his brother for the undergraduate library of Cornell University, now Uris Library. - Source:
- “Kirby, Fred Morgan” Marquis Who's Who, Inc, and Credo Reference (Firm). 2008. Marquis Who was who in America, 1607-1984. [New Providence, NJ]: Marquis Who's Who. http://www.credoreference.com/book/marqwas
ncyclopedia of American Studies, s.v. "Five-and-Dime Stores," accessed May 31, 2012, http://www.credoreference.com.libezproxy2.syr.edu/entry/jhueas/five_and_dime_stores
Ancestry.com. World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2005
“Sumner, Moore Kirby,” Alumni Deceased Files, Cornell University Libraries. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Report of the Director of the University Libraries1965-66, Dale R. Corson papers, 1963-1977. Collection Number 3-11-1665, Box 13, File Folder 28, Cornell University Libraries. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library - Repository:
- Cornell University
- Format:
- Image
- Rights:
- The content in the Campus Artifacts, Art & Memorabilia Collection is protected by copyright, and the copyright holders are Cornell University Library and the Cornell Association of Professors Emeritus. This collection was created by Cornell University Library in 2010, with funding from a Digital Collections in Arts and Sciences Grant to Howard Howland. Cornell is providing access to the materials for research and personal use. The written permission of any copyright and other rights holders is required for distribution, reproduction, or other use that extends beyond what is authorized by fair use and other statutory exemptions. Responsibility for making an independent legal assessment of an item and securing any necessary permissions ultimately rests with persons desiring to use the item. Please contact the Cornell Association of Professors Emeritus at cape@cornell.edu for more information about this collection, or to request permission to use these images.