9/50/33 Guide to the Edward Atkinson Papers Edward Atkinson Papers

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Guide to the Edward Atkinson Papers 1886/1888 University of Illinois Archives Overview of the Collection Edward Atkinson Papers 1886-1888 9/50/33 0.40 University of Illinois Archives
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Administrative History:

Edward Atkinson was born in 1827 and died in 1905.

Access Terms

This Collection is indexed under the following controlled access subject terms.

Topical Term: Business Archives Business Records
Administrative Information Acquisition Information:

Presented to the Department of Economics of the University of Illinois by Mr. Thomas J. Taylor, Bookseller, Taunton, Massachusetts, November 1908. (Inside cover).

Arrangement of Materials:

Chronological

Scope and Contents

Papers of Edward Atkinson (1827-1905), renowned economist, contains manuscripts of eighteen essays pasted into two folio volumes, (1886-87 and 1887-88), including considerable revisions, corrections, and marginal comments and and concerning economics topics including: "A good lunch for 10 cents," "Single tax theory," "School instruction and the labor Questions" (presented to American Institute of Instruction (1886), and "How Every Tenant Farmer May become his own Landlord."