Guide to the Frank Nugent Freeman Papers, 1939-1947

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Guide to the Frank Nugent Freeman Papers, 1939-1947

Collection number: BANC MSS C-B 1025

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Collection Summary

Collection Title: Frank Nugent Freeman Papers,
Date (inclusive): 1939-1947
Collection Number: BANC MSS C-B 1025
Origination: Freeman, Frank Nugent, 1880-1961
Extent: Number of containers: 1 box
Repository: The Bancroft Library
Berkeley, California 94720-6000
Physical Location: For current information on the location of these materials, please consult the Library's online catalog.
Abstract: Correspondence and manuscripts of Dean of School of Education, University of California, relating to education, to junior college conferences, and to the publication of the 1947 handbook for the National Society for the Study of Education.
Languages Represented: English

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Access

Collection is open for research.

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Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], Frank Nugent Freeman Papers, BANC MSS C-B 1025, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.

Scope and Content

The papers, transferred from Archives to Bancroft Library March 8, 1966, had been given to Archives by the Education Library. They contain a small portion of correspondence and related Papers concerning the programs for conferences on junior colleges, and the preparation of the 1947 yearbook for the National Society for the Study of Education. A few manuscripts of articles by Dean Freeman are also included.

Biography

Frank Nugent Freeman, educator and psychologist, was born in Canada in 1880. He obtained his degrees from Wesleyan University and Yale. He taught at Yale and at the University of Chicago where he became chairman of the Department of Psychology, before coming to the University of California. While at Berkeley he was appointed Dean of the School of education. He was active in educational societies, took part in conferences concerning junior colleges in California, and wrote and edited many works relating to education and psychology.

box Box

Outgoing letters, 1939-1944

Arrangement

Arranged chronologically
 

Incoming letters

Arrangement

Single letters in A-Z Miscellany. A partial list of correspondents is appended at end of the report.
 

Articles by Freeman

Arrangement

Arranged alphabetically by title. (1 folder)
 

National Society for the Study of Education

 

Handbook, 1947

 

Drafts, incomplete

 

Draft for book on University Elementary School

 

Misc.


 

A-Z Miscellany (single letters)

 

Anderson, Vernon Ellsworth, 1908-

 

Letter, Mar. 22, 1944

 

Carmichael, Leonard, 1898-

 

Letter, June 16, 1939

 

Cloud, Roy Walter, 1878-

 

Letter, Nov. 27, 1942

 

Givens, Willard Earl, 1886-

 

Letter, Nov. 24, 1942

 

Hanna, Paul Robert, 1902-

 

Letter, Apr. 24, 1939

 

Hart, Frank William, 1881-

 

Letter, Mar. 16, 1939

 

Heron, Alexander Richard, 1891-

 

Letter, Feb. 23, 1944

 

Hoppock, Anne S.

 

Letter, June 20, 1946

 

Lentz, Alfred Ernst, 1901-

 

Letter, Feb. 15, 1944

 

McPhee, Julian A., 1896-

 

Letter, Feb. 1, 1944

 

Nelson, Thomas L., 1894-

 

Letter, Jan. 29, 1944

 

Ricciardi, Nicholas, 1886-

 

Letter, Dec. 22, 1943

 

Sexon, John Amherst, 1881-

 

Letter, June 13, 1945

 

Woods, Baldwin Munger, 1887-1956

 

Letter, Feb. 21, 1944

 

Anderson, John Edward, 1893-

 

2 letters, 1946

 

Bird, Grace

 

4 letters, 1943-1944

 

Lindsay, Frank B., 1895-

 

2 letters, 1943-1944

 

Lounsbury, John L., 1893-

 

2 letters, 1944

 

Myers, Alonzo Franklin, 1895-

 

2 letters, 1942

 

Stoddard, George Dinsmore, 1897-

 

3 letters, 1939

 

Thomas, Frank Waters, 1878-

 

3 letters, 1945