Elisabeth Ann Bowles Manuscript

Collection

Identifier: MSS 0024

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

The manuscript is for the book, A Good Beginning. It is an original typescript of 308 pages with handwritten notations and corrections.

Dates

1967

Creator

Bowles, Elisabeth Ann (Person)

Conditions Governing Access

Collection is open for research.

Conditions Governing Use

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Biographical or Historical Information

Dr. Elisabeth Ann Bowles was an Emeritus faculty member of the School of Education at UNCG. She attended the school as an undergraduate when it was the Woman's College of the University of North Carolina. Bowles later did her graduate work at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where she wrote her doctoral dissertation entitled, "The University of North Carolina at Greensboro, 1892-1931" (in University Archives: CE B78u). This dissertation was developed into the book, A Good Beginning : the First Four Decades of The University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Chapel Hill, NC: The University of North Carolina Press, 1967 (in University Archives: CL1 B78g).

Extent

0.42 Linear Feet (1 box)

Language of Materials

English

Additional Description

Abstract

Dr. Elisabeth Ann Bowles was an Emeritus faculty member at UNCG's School of Education.

This manuscript is for Bowles' book, A Good Beginning.

Method of Acquisition

Gift of Elisabeth Ann Bowles in 1967.

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