Earlier librarians, notably Lula V. Allen, Edith Brown, Lula E. Connor and Rosa C. Hershaw, had started to develop a system suitable for the library's materials. In 1929 Burnett married James A. Porter, an historian and artist. Moorland-Spingarn Research Center, and Dorothy Porter Wesley.
[6] They had a daughter together, Constance, known as "Coni". Beinecke is a non-circulating, closed stack library. They had a daughter together, Constance, known as "Coni". Dorothy Porter Wesley (1905-1995), a scholar-librarian and bibliographer was born in Warrenton, Virginia in 1905, to her father, Hayes Joseph Burnett, a physician, and her mother, Bertha Ball Burnett, a tennis champion. Read the Library Reopening FAQ and other COVID-19 updates.
Moorland Foundation, and Dorothy Porter Wesley. Wesley, the eldest of four children, grew up in Montclair, New Jersey. You can request collection material online at least two business days in advance of your visit, using the request links in Archives at Yale. Wesley enrolled in Howard University in 1926 and received a BA in 1928. 2019.
She served as Executive Director of the Dorothy Porter Wesley Library. In 1928 Wesley enrolled at Colombia University’s School of Library Science where Wesley received a Master’s in Library Science in 1931.
Currently she is writing a book entitled Tremor. For more information, please see Planning Your Research Visit and consult the Reading Room Policies prior to visiting the library. She studied at Columbia University, earning B.S. In 1930, Wesley began work as curator of the Moorland Foundation, now known as the Moorland-Spingarn Research Center, at Howard University and worked to build collections documenting the African diaspora until her retirement in 1973. [1] She published numerous bibliographies on African-American history. Professor Porter is a distinguished historian of medicine and a former head of the Department of History, Classics and Archaeology at Birkbeck. She was the first African American to graduate from Columbia's library school. Over the next 40 years, she was key to building up what is now the Moorland-Spingarn Research Center at the university as one of the world's best collection of library materials for Black/Africana history and culture.
When Arthur Spingarn agreed to sell his private collection to Howard University, the university's treasurer required an external appraisal of its value, stating that Porter's estimate would be over the value of the collection. She graduated from Miner Normal School, Washington D.C. in 1925 with the intention of becoming a teacher. She served as Executive Director of the Dorothy Porter Wesley Library. Books authored by Dorothy Porter Wesley include, Afro-Braziliana: A Working Bibliography (1978), William Cooper Nell, Nineteenth-Century African American Abolitionist, Historian, Integrationist: Selected Writings 1832-1874 (2002). The collection also includes records of the Association for the Study of Afro-American Life and History.
The Negro in the United States; A Selected Bibliography. In 1929 she married, while completing post-graduate work. While at Birkbeck her numerous internationally renowned academic publications included the influential monograph, Health, Civilisation and the State. Professor Porter has been active in many debates within clinical medicine and public health, making a great many radio and television appearances as well as keynote lectures to scientific bodies. A History of Public Health from Ancient to Modern Times. The collection consists chiefly of the correspondence, writings, biographical materials, research files, photographs, and personal papers of librarian, curator and bibliophile Dorothy Porter Wesley. Professor Porter obtained her first degree from the University of Sussex and her doctorate from University College London.
Wesley, the eldest of four children, grew up in Montclair, New Jersey. The bulk of the collection is comprised of research materials relating to various subjects pertaining to African American history, culture, and bibliography, including the following: African-American abolitionists Sarah Remond and William C. Nell, African American literature, African literature, and Afro-Brazilian literature. [10], Dorothy Porter published numerous bibliographies and one anthology.
Dorothy Burnett Porter Wesley (1905-1995) librarian, curator and bibliophile, was born on May 25, 1905 in Warrenton, Virginia to physician Hayes Joseph Burnett and tennis player Roberta (“Bertha”) Ball Burnett. Most recently she published a history of Health Citizenship: Essays on Social Medicine and Bio-medical Politics and jointly edited a volume in 2015 with Frank Stahnisch on Boundary Work and Trading Zones in the History of Medicine and Medical Humanities.
Professional Papers, 1869-2003. After residencies in American universities including UCLA and Harvard, she joined Birkbeck in 1991, becoming Wellcome Reader in the History of Medicine and then Professor in the History of Science and Medicine in 1998. Professor Porter is a distinguished historian of medicine and a former head of the Department of History, Classics and Archaeologyat Birkbeck. Wesley, Dorothy Porter, and Arthur Alfonso Schomburg. Burnett developed a new cataloging system for the growing collection, as well as expertise to assess the materials. Purchased from William Reese Co., (Swann African American sale, New York, 2012 March 1, lot 296) on the Sinclair Lewis Fund, 2012. The bulk of the collection is comprised of research materials relating to various subjects relating to African American history, culture, and bibliography, including the following: African-American abolitionists Sarah Remond and William C. Nell, African American literature, African literature, and Afro-Brazilian literature. After retirement, Wesley worked as a consultant for Radcliffe University’s Black Women Oral History Archive and authored several articles, and books pertaining to librarianship and the African diaspora. She married Milan Uzelac, and initially worked with her mother. [3] This estimate set the standard for appraising collections of black literature. He retired in 2001 from the director of the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine at University College London (UCL). Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Medical Historical Library, Harvey Cushing / John Hay Whitney Medical Library, Yale Center for British Art, Institutional Archives, Yale Center for British Art, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Association for the Study of Afro-American Life and History, Nell, William C. (William Cooper), 1816-1874. Smith, Jessie Carney, and Shirelle Phelps. Dorothy Porter Wesley died in Broward County, Florida in 1995. Materials were received directly from Swann Auction Galleries. ".
Now Professor in History of the Health Sciences at the University of California, Professor Porter was based at Birkbeck for much of … New Haven, CT 06511.
Esme E. Bhan, "Dorothy Porter."
[6] They had a daughter together, Constance, known as "Coni". Beinecke is a non-circulating, closed stack library. They had a daughter together, Constance, known as "Coni". Dorothy Porter Wesley (1905-1995), a scholar-librarian and bibliographer was born in Warrenton, Virginia in 1905, to her father, Hayes Joseph Burnett, a physician, and her mother, Bertha Ball Burnett, a tennis champion. Read the Library Reopening FAQ and other COVID-19 updates.
Moorland Foundation, and Dorothy Porter Wesley. Wesley, the eldest of four children, grew up in Montclair, New Jersey. You can request collection material online at least two business days in advance of your visit, using the request links in Archives at Yale. Wesley enrolled in Howard University in 1926 and received a BA in 1928. 2019.
She served as Executive Director of the Dorothy Porter Wesley Library. In 1928 Wesley enrolled at Colombia University’s School of Library Science where Wesley received a Master’s in Library Science in 1931.
Currently she is writing a book entitled Tremor. For more information, please see Planning Your Research Visit and consult the Reading Room Policies prior to visiting the library. She studied at Columbia University, earning B.S. In 1930, Wesley began work as curator of the Moorland Foundation, now known as the Moorland-Spingarn Research Center, at Howard University and worked to build collections documenting the African diaspora until her retirement in 1973. [1] She published numerous bibliographies on African-American history. Professor Porter is a distinguished historian of medicine and a former head of the Department of History, Classics and Archaeology at Birkbeck. She was the first African American to graduate from Columbia's library school. Over the next 40 years, she was key to building up what is now the Moorland-Spingarn Research Center at the university as one of the world's best collection of library materials for Black/Africana history and culture.
When Arthur Spingarn agreed to sell his private collection to Howard University, the university's treasurer required an external appraisal of its value, stating that Porter's estimate would be over the value of the collection. She graduated from Miner Normal School, Washington D.C. in 1925 with the intention of becoming a teacher. She served as Executive Director of the Dorothy Porter Wesley Library. Books authored by Dorothy Porter Wesley include, Afro-Braziliana: A Working Bibliography (1978), William Cooper Nell, Nineteenth-Century African American Abolitionist, Historian, Integrationist: Selected Writings 1832-1874 (2002). The collection also includes records of the Association for the Study of Afro-American Life and History.
The Negro in the United States; A Selected Bibliography. In 1929 she married, while completing post-graduate work. While at Birkbeck her numerous internationally renowned academic publications included the influential monograph, Health, Civilisation and the State. Professor Porter has been active in many debates within clinical medicine and public health, making a great many radio and television appearances as well as keynote lectures to scientific bodies. A History of Public Health from Ancient to Modern Times. The collection consists chiefly of the correspondence, writings, biographical materials, research files, photographs, and personal papers of librarian, curator and bibliophile Dorothy Porter Wesley. Professor Porter obtained her first degree from the University of Sussex and her doctorate from University College London.
Wesley, the eldest of four children, grew up in Montclair, New Jersey. The bulk of the collection is comprised of research materials relating to various subjects pertaining to African American history, culture, and bibliography, including the following: African-American abolitionists Sarah Remond and William C. Nell, African American literature, African literature, and Afro-Brazilian literature. [10], Dorothy Porter published numerous bibliographies and one anthology.
Dorothy Burnett Porter Wesley (1905-1995) librarian, curator and bibliophile, was born on May 25, 1905 in Warrenton, Virginia to physician Hayes Joseph Burnett and tennis player Roberta (“Bertha”) Ball Burnett. Most recently she published a history of Health Citizenship: Essays on Social Medicine and Bio-medical Politics and jointly edited a volume in 2015 with Frank Stahnisch on Boundary Work and Trading Zones in the History of Medicine and Medical Humanities.
Professional Papers, 1869-2003. After residencies in American universities including UCLA and Harvard, she joined Birkbeck in 1991, becoming Wellcome Reader in the History of Medicine and then Professor in the History of Science and Medicine in 1998. Professor Porter is a distinguished historian of medicine and a former head of the Department of History, Classics and Archaeologyat Birkbeck. Wesley, Dorothy Porter, and Arthur Alfonso Schomburg. Burnett developed a new cataloging system for the growing collection, as well as expertise to assess the materials. Purchased from William Reese Co., (Swann African American sale, New York, 2012 March 1, lot 296) on the Sinclair Lewis Fund, 2012. The bulk of the collection is comprised of research materials relating to various subjects relating to African American history, culture, and bibliography, including the following: African-American abolitionists Sarah Remond and William C. Nell, African American literature, African literature, and Afro-Brazilian literature. After retirement, Wesley worked as a consultant for Radcliffe University’s Black Women Oral History Archive and authored several articles, and books pertaining to librarianship and the African diaspora. She married Milan Uzelac, and initially worked with her mother. [3] This estimate set the standard for appraising collections of black literature. He retired in 2001 from the director of the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine at University College London (UCL). Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Medical Historical Library, Harvey Cushing / John Hay Whitney Medical Library, Yale Center for British Art, Institutional Archives, Yale Center for British Art, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Association for the Study of Afro-American Life and History, Nell, William C. (William Cooper), 1816-1874. Smith, Jessie Carney, and Shirelle Phelps. Dorothy Porter Wesley died in Broward County, Florida in 1995. Materials were received directly from Swann Auction Galleries. ".
Now Professor in History of the Health Sciences at the University of California, Professor Porter was based at Birkbeck for much of … New Haven, CT 06511.
Esme E. Bhan, "Dorothy Porter."