Alice Hanson Jones papers, 1700-1982

Creator:: Jones, Alice Hanson, 1904-1985
Extent:: 156 boxes (156 boxes)
Language:: English .
Scope and content:: Correspondence; manuscripts by Jones and others; subject files; reserach materials including inventories of deceased persons' estates, probate records arranged by state, microfilm of state and country financial records, and colonial maps; research data on file cards, punch cards, and computer printouts; teaching materials; and printed material. There is correspondence with Stuart Bruchey of the Columbia University Department of History. The collection includes 92 volumes from Jones' Library.
Biographical / historical:: Economic historian best known for her studies of colonial American probate inventories and for her book"Wealth of a Nation to Be : the American Colonies on the Eve of the Revolution." Jones worked for the U.S. Bureau of Statistics, the National Bureau of Economic Research and the Department of Agriculture. She taught economics at Washington University, Saint Louis, Mo., 1963-1985.

Acquisition information:

Papers: Source of acquisition--Jones, Alice Hanson, Estate of. Method of acquisition--Gift; Date of acquisition--02/05/86. Accession number--M-86-02-05-01.

Custodial history:

Gift of the estate of Alice H. Jones via Washington University, St. Louis, Mo., 1985.

Processing information:

Papers Processed RL 06/--/86.

Arrangement:

Arranged primarily by subject.

Accruals:

Materials may have been added to the collection since this finding aid was prepared. Contact rbml@columbia.edu for more information.

Rules or conventions:

Describing Archives: A Content Standard

Related material:

American Colonial Wealth Estimates, 1774 [Machine-readable data file]. Principal Investigator, Alice Hanson Jones. lst ICPSR ed: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research, 1981: Address--Ann Arbor,Mich..

Files on decedante data at: the Newberry Library: Address--Chicago, Ill.

Access and use

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Preferred citation:: Identification of specific item; Date (if known); Alice Hanson Jones papers; Box and Folder; Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Columbia University Library.

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