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• Title:Rolf Knight fonds
  
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• Author/Creator:Knight, Rolf.
  
• Published/Created:1961-2017
  

• Holdings

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  • Location:RBSC ASRS - (Confirm availability: email rare.books@ubc.ca) Where is this?
    
  • Call Number: RBSC-ARC-1306
    
  • Number of Items:15
    
  • Status:c.1 Box 5 Requested
    c.1 Box 6 Requested
    c.1 Box 7 Requested
    c.1 Box 8 Requested
    c.1 Box 9 Requested
    c.1 Box 10 Requested
    c.1 Box 11 Requested
    c.1 Box 12 Requested
    c.1 Box 14 Requested
    
  • Location Has:Box 1-15
    
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Knight, Rolf.
  Murphy, Harvey, -1977.
  Smith, John.
  Chester, Bob.
  Stevens, Homer.
  
• Description:1. 35 m of textual records
  
• Summary:The fonds consists of manuscripts, research files and printed material relating to Knight's activities as a student and university professor in the field of anthropology. The fonds also includes manuscript copies of A Very Ordinary Life, Indians at Work and Along the No. 20 Line and transcripts of interviews with Bob Chestnut, Harvey Murphy and John Smith and a typescript copy of Knight's autobiography. Fonds also includes manuscript of the autobiography of Homer Stevens.
  
• Biography/history note:Rolf Knight obtained his B.A. from the University of British Columbia in 1959. He completed graduate work in anthropology at UBC (M.A., 1962) and Columbia University (Ph.D., 1968). He went on to teach at Simon Fraser University and the University of Toronto. Since 1972, he has published several books pertaining to working class history. Honours received by Knight include a Certificate of Merit from the Canadian Historical Association for work concerning regional history, and an award from the British Columbia Historical Federation for his autobiography of Homer Stevens in 1992.
  
• Indexes and finding aids:Online inventory available.
  
• Notes:Title based on the contents of the fonds.