Scrapbook of George Amos Dorsey, 1890-1891.

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Scrapbook of George Amos Dorsey, 1890-1891.

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This scrapbook contains ephemera gathered in the typical social and leisure life of a Harvard student in the late 19th century, although some of the material relates specifically to Dorsey's more scholarly interests. Contains menus, theater programs, ticket stubs, meeting notices from the Harvard Graduate Club, YMCA, Boston Society of Natural History, Boston Association of the American Folklore Society, and other groups, and photographs of Harvard, Boston Harbor, Gloucester, and Yarmouth, Maine.

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Dorsey was a student of F. W. Putnam at the Peabody Museum. From the description of Correspondence to Daniel Garrison Brinton, 1894. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 226043722 Dorsey earned his Harvard A.B. in 1890 and Harvard Ph.D. in 1894. He was an ethnographer who specialized in the North American Plains Indians. From the description of Scrapbook of George Amos Dorsey, 1890-1891. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 62528002 ...

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