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Joseph Palmer Knapp

Joseph Palmer Knapp (1864–1951), a New York publisher and financier, is the namesake of the Institute of Government building in Chapel Hill, which the Knapp Foundation paid for at his widow's insistence after his death. In his lifetime his North Carolina giving went mainly to schools in Currituck County.

Source: NCpedia: Knapp, Joseph Palmer

1864–1951 · Dates from the Library of Congress · Library of Congress authority record ↗

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  1. The Joseph Palmer Knapp Building opens for the Institute of Government The Institute of Government got a new building in Chapel Hill, paid for by the Knapp Foundation and a legislative appropriation and named for Joseph Palmer Knapp, who had died in 1951. His widow, Margaret Rutledge Knapp, saw that the family foundation funded it. Place: Knapp-Sanders Building, Chapel Hill · Also named: Margaret Rutledge KnappSearch the index · UNC A to Z: Knapp-Sanders Building
  2. A Knapp Foundation gift funds an addition, renamed the Knapp-Sanders Building The Knapp Foundation contributed to a large addition to the Institute of Government building, and the name was extended to honor John Lassiter Sanders, the Institute's second director. People: John L. Sanders Place: Knapp-Sanders Building, Chapel HillSearch the index · UNC A to Z: Knapp-Sanders Building

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A catalogue of the ceramics in the Joseph Palmer Knapp and William E. Shipp collections in the Ackland Art Center

William Hayes Ackland Memorial Art Center.; Allen, Terrell George · 1975 · William Hayes Ackland Memorial Art Center

Collection catalogue of the ceramics in the Joseph Palmer Knapp and William E. Shipp collections at the William Hayes Ackland Memorial Art Center, the university art museum in Chapel Hill. Published there in 1975 with Terrell George Allen credited, it covers China trade porcelain and American pottery from the two private collections and closes with a bibliography on leaves 99 to 107.

Included because: Catalog heading in the UNC record: Knapp, Joseph Palmer, 1864-1951.

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The dedication of the Joseph Palmer Knapp Building : home of the Institute of Government, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.

1960 · Institute of Government, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

The dedication of the Joseph Palmer Knapp Building, put up at Chapel Hill to house the Institute of Government at the University of North Carolina, published in 1960 as a dedication issue of Popular Government. Thirteen unnumbered pages with illustrations, maps and portraits, covering the building, the institute and Knapp himself, who died in 1951 and for whom it is named.

Included because: Catalog heading in the UNC record: Knapp, Joseph Palmer, 1864-1951.

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