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Contributing Institution:
The Huntington Library
Title: Dunbar Rowland correspondence
Identifier/Call Number: mssRowland
Physical Description:
1.20 Linear Feet
(1 box)
Date (inclusive): 1914-1919
Abstract: Photocopies of letters by Dunbar Rowland, American author, historian, scholar, and archivist.
Language of Material: Materials are in English.
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[Identification of item]. Dunbar Rowland correspondence, The Huntington Library, San Marino, California.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Purchased from J.F. Woolridge, State of Mississippi, Department of Archives and History, December 1967.
Dunbar Rowland was born in August 1864. He was an author, historian, scholar, and director of the Mississippi Department of
Archives and History. Rowland was a member of several professional societies for historians, including the American Historical
Association; he was an active member of its Conference of Historical Societies from its foundation in 1904 and of its Conference
of Archivists from 1909. He was a leader in the Mississippi Valley Historical Association, of which he and other regional
archivists and historians had been the founder in 1907. Dunbar Rowland helped create the Mississippi state archives. He died
in November 1937.
Collection consists of photocopies of letters by Dunbar Rowland relating to the "reform" movement within the American Historical
Association, from 1914 to 1915, which was directed against the so-called "Big-University Trust." The bulk of the letters are
from Rowland to fellow historian, Frederic Bancroft.
Processed by Gina C Giang in 2015. In March 2024, Brooke M. Black created the finding aid.
Arranged chronologically.
Former call number: mssRowland correspondence.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Archivists -- United States
Historians -- United States
Jackson (Miss.)
Washington (D.C.)
Letters (correspondence)
Bancroft, Frederic, 1860-1945
Jameson, J. Franklin (John Franklin), 1859-1937
Latané, John Holladay, 1869-1932
American Historical Association
Mississippi Valley Historical Association