William B. Dixon, Baltimore businessman and philanthropist
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@ Enoch Pratt Free Library / State Library Resource Center
Blackstone Studios, Inc
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Photographic portrait of William B. Dixon (1890-1963), made at Blackstone Studios, Inc. In 1937, he and two other African American men opened Metropolitan Finance Corporation, the first African American owned and operated loan business licensed in the state of Maryland. He was also the only African American in Maryland to be appointed by the Federal government as a broker and property manager for the Home Owners' Loan Corporation. He was active in numerous social and fraternal groups and helped raise funds for an iron lung for Provident Hospital (Baltimore, Md.).
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Digital Reproduction Of 1 Black And White Photograph, 25 X 19 Cm.