Frank Allan Hanna papers, 1850-1936.

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Frank Allan Hanna papers, 1850-1936.

This collection contains the work of the Wisconsin Income Tax Commission and its studies between 1929 and 1936. A master tabulating procedures manual is included. Two daybooks from South Carolina, 1850-1855, contain accounts of a store which kept special accounts for African-Americans. The volumes on the genealogy of the Hanna family are to be kept with the papers at the request of Professor Hanna. A set of galley proofs for Institutional Economics by John R. Commons has corrections by Professor Hanna. The collection ranges in date from 1850-1936.

250 items (2.5 linear ft.).

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Wisconsin. Dept. of Taxation.

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Duke University

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Hanna, Frank A. (Frank Allan), 1907-1978

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Frank Allan Hanna was born in Oklahoma City, OK in 1907. He earned his AB in 1933 from the University of Oklahoma and earned both his MA and PhD from the University of Wisconsin in 1934 and 1941, respectively. From 1935-1938, Hanna worked as an economist for the Wisconsin State Planning Board, and from 1939-1941, he served as Research Director of the Wisconsin Income Study at the University of Wisconsin. Hanna came to Duke University in 1948 and taught in the Economics Dept. until he retired in ...