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Size | 0.5 feet of linear shelf space (approximately 53 items) |
Abstract | Edgar Wallace Knight (1885-1953) was a University of North Carolina professor and authority on educational history and administration. The collection contains materials gathered for a dissertation on Knight by Forrest L. Rollins including scrapbooks and clippings related to all of Knight's career, but particularly the early years, 1917-1926; Knight's memorandum book while a member of an educational inquiry commission in Iraq, 1932; incomplete manuscripts of two of his books; and photocopies of papers and clippings relating to Knight. |
Creator | Rollins, Forrest L., 1928- , (collector) |
Curatorial Unit | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection. |
Language | English |
Processed by: SHC Staff
Encoded by: Noah Huffman, December 2007
Updated by: Kate Stratton and Jodi Berkowitz, May 2009
This collection was rehoused and a summary created with support from the National Endowment for the Humanities.
This finding aid was created with support from NC ECHO.
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Edgar Wallace Knight (1885-1953) was a University of North Carolina professor and authority on educational history and administration.
Back to TopThe collection includes materials gathered by Forrest L. Rollins for his dissertation on Edgar Wallace Knight. The collection includes scrapbooks and clippings related to all of Knight's career, but particularly the early years, 1917-1926; Knight's memorandum book while a member of an educational inquiry commission in Iraq, 1932; incomplete manuscripts of two of his books; and photocopies of papers and clippings relating to Knight.
Back to TopFolder 1a |
Original finding aid |
Folder 1 |
1909-1932 |
Folder 2 |
1941-1952 |
Folder 3 |
1953-1961 |
Folder 4 |
Undated |
Folder 5 |
Edgar Wallace Knight Papers |
Folder 6 |
Volume 1: Scrapbook, 1917-1923 |
Folder 7 |
Volume 2: Portfolio of loose clippings |
Folder 8 |
Volume 3: Public Shool Education in the South, typed manuscript |
Folder 9 |
Volume 4: Memorandum book, Iraq, 1932 |
Folder 10 |
Volume 5: Typescript materials related to the historical development of schools in the United States |