Dorsey, William Henry
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Name (Latin)
Dorsey, William Henry
Date of birth
1837-10-23
Gender
male
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Sources of Information
- Lane, R. William Dorsey's Philadelphia and ours, 1991:CIP data sheet (William Henry Dorsey; Black historian; lived in Philadelphia)
- NUCMC data from Cheyney Univ. of Penn. for William H. Dorsey scrapbook collection, [ca. 1850]-[ca. 1900]
- Temple University WWW Home page, Mar. 5, 2004(William Henry Dorsey (1837-1920), a prominent bibliophile, a distinguished artist, and collector of rare African Americana from the 19th century)
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William Henry Dorsey
H.H. Wayman, “The American Negro Historical Society of Philadelphia and Its Officers,” Colored American Magazine, February 1903, page 294., Public domain
Wikipedia description:
William Henry Dorsey (October 23, 1837 – January 9, 1923) was an American bibliophile, artist, scrapbooker, numismatist, social historian and collector of Black history and art. He was most noted for the 388 scrapbooks he compiled of newspaper and magazine clippings chronicling Black life in his hometown of Philadelphia and across the country during the 19th century.
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