Arnold K. King papers, 1900s-1980s [manuscript].

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Arnold K. King papers, 1900s-1980s [manuscript].

Materials include subject files, chiefly relating to personal activities; correspondence, including some family letters from the 1920s, when King was a student at the University of Chicago, and other letters, 1950s-1980s, chiefly about awards King received; biographical materials, clippings, and awards, 1920s-1980s; writings, including drafts of King's dissertation on Thomas Paine and his history of UNC; writings by others, chiefly about UNC, higher education, and Thomas Paine; and pictures, chiefly photographs of King, with some family pictures, probably from the 1910s.

1,000 items (10.5 linear ft.).

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