Mickey Dorsey papers
Collection Overview
The collection consists of letters, photographs, negatives, and other papers of Mickey Dorsey, an American soldier with the 71st Infantry Division, who participated in the liberation of Gunskirchen Lager, a German concentration camp in Austria. Photographs and negatives taken by Joe Daurer, the photographer for Dorsey's unit, show victims and survivors in the camp.
Dates
- Creation: 1944-1946, 1999
Creator
- Dorsey, Mickey, 1925- (Person)
Language of Material
Materials in English
Access Restrictions
This collection is open for research.
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Biographical Note
Mason "Mickey" Dorsey was born on July 22, 1925, in Chester, South Carolina. He attended Clemson University on scholarship until his sophomore year, when he left to join the U.S. Army. Dorsey started basic training in February 1944 at Camp Blanding, Florida, then received additional communications training at Fort Benning, Georgia.
Dorsey's unit, the 71st Infantry Division, arrived in France in February 1945. The division fought in France, Germany, and Austria, and on May 4, participated in the liberation of Gunskirchen Lager, a German concentration camp near Lambach, Austria. Photographs and negatives taken by the unit's photographer, Joe Daurer, were given to Dorsey by Daurer's widow Rosemary after his death.
After the war, Dorsey resumed his studies in textile engineering at Clemson University. He worked for companies in Charlotte, North Carolina, and Hazlehurst, Georgia, then returned to Charlotte and started his own company, Lubromation, Inc.
Extent
1.0 linear feet (8 folders)
Abstract
The collection consists of letters, photographs, negatives, and other papers of Mickey Dorsey, an American soldier with the 71st Infantry Division, who participated in the liberation of Gunskirchen Lager, a German concentration camp in Austria. Photographs and negatives taken by Joe Daurer, the photographer for Dorsey's unit, show victims and survivors in the camp.
Collection Arrangement
Materials are described at the folder level.
Acquisitions Information
Materials donated in 2007 by Mickey Dorsey.
Processing Information
Processed by Rebecca McClure, May 2012.
Source
- Dorsey, Mickey, 1925- (Donor, Person)
Subject
- Dorsey, Mickey, 1925- (Person)
- Daurer, Joe, 1909-1998 (Person)
- United States. Army. Infantry Division, 71st (Organization)
- Gunskirchen (Concentration camp) (Organization)
Genre / Form
- DVDs
- Black-and-white negatives
- Black-and-white photographs
- Compact discs
- Digital images
- Letters (correspondence)
- Memoirs
- Photocopies
Geographic
Topical
- Title
- Inventory of the Mickey Dorsey Papers, 1944-1946, 1999
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Processed by: Rebecca McClure; machine-readable finding aid created by:
- Date
- 2012
- Description rules
- Dacs
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Sponsor
- Funding from the Council on Library and Information Resources supported the processing of this collection and encoding of the finding aid.
Repository Details
Part of the Special Collections Repository
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