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The first Black archaeologist : a life of John Wesley Gilbert / John W.I. Lee.
Penn Museum Library - New Books Display DF212.G55 L44 2022
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lee, John W. I. (John Wolte Infong), 1971- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Archaeologists--United States--Biography.
- Archaeologists.
- Excavations (Archaeology)--Greece--Eretria (Extinct city).
- Excavations (Archaeology).
- archaeologists.
- Antiquities.
- Archaeology.
- Gilbert, John Wesley, 1863-1923.
- Gilbert, John Wesley.
- Athens (Greece)--Antiquities.
- Athens (Greece).
- United States.
- Greece--Eretria (Extinct city).
- Greece--Athens.
- Genre:
- Biographies
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- xxviii, 418 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
- Other Title:
- Life of John Wesley Gilbert
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2022]
- Summary:
- "The boy was determined to write. It was Monday, the first of May, 1871, and he had come with his mother to open an account at the Augusta, Georgia branch of the Freedman's Savings and Trust Company. The clerk opened his account register and took down the new customer's information. Age: 7. Residence: corner Center and Telfair Streets-- just two blocks from the bank office on Broad Street. Occupation: Go to school to Miss Chesnut. Father: Tom Dasher. Mother: Sarah Dasher. Uncles: Gabriel, Simon, Jim, William, John, in that order. Then, as he usually did with young or illiterate patrons, the clerk wrote the boy's name on the signature line, added the notation "his mark," and offered the page for an X. The boy, however, insisted on signing for himself. He ran out of space on his first try but succeeded on his second. The register (Figure 1.1) still survives today in the National Archives in Washington, DC, bearing a shaky but legible signature: Wesley Gilbert"-- Provided by publisher
- Contents:
- Out of the ashes
- Nursed in the arms of poverty
- This young man deserves special mention
- Nothing less than glorious
- The American school
- No stone unturned
- The Demes of Athens
- Excavating Eretria
- A humble worker in the colored ranks
- Mutombo Katshi
- The old veteran
- Enduring spirit.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 349-395) and index.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Lee, John W.I. First Black archaeologist.
- ISBN:
- 9780197578995
- 0197578993
- OCLC:
- 1440045600
- Publisher Number:
- 90102238732
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