Cooper mss. II, ca. 1905-1985
Papers, ca.
1905-1985, of Kent Cooper at the Lilly Library, Indiana University,
Bloomington, Indiana
Electronic finding aid encoded by Beth Benda
Summary Information
Repository
Lilly Library (Indiana University, Bloomington)
Indiana University
1200 E. Seventh St.
Bloomington, IN 47405-5500
Phone: 812-855-2452
Fax: 812-855-3143
Email: liblilly@indiana.edu
http://www.indiana.edu/~liblilly
Creator
Cooper, Kent, 1880-1965.
TitleCooper mss. II,ca. 1905-1985
Collection no:
LMC 1212
Extent
ca. 2000 items
Language
Materials are in English.
Abstract
Consists of the papers of Kent Cooper
and of his wife, Sarah A. Gibbs Cooper, mostly dating from after Kent Cooper's
death. Most of the collection concerns his work as a journalist, but some of it
relates to his work as a composer.
Administrative Information
Access Restrictions
This collection is open for research.
Acquisition Information
Gift, 1994.
Usage RestrictionsPrior arrangements are not necessary before coming to the Library, however,
patrons from out of town are encouraged to communicate with the Library in
advance of their visits to ascertain availability of materials.
Photocopying permitted only with permission of the Curator of Manuscripts, Lilly
Library.
Preferred Citation
[Item], Cooper mss. II, Lilly Library, Indiana University, Bloomington,
Indiana.
Biographical Note
Kent Cooper, 1880-1965, was a journalist and Associated Press executive.
Scope and Content Note
Consist of the papers of journalist and Associated Press executive, Kent Cooper,
1880-1965. Most of the collection concerns his work as a journalist, but some of it
relates to his work as a composer. There are also papers of his wife, Sarah (Sally)
A. Gibbs Cooper, mostly dating after Kent's death.
Arrangement/Organization
Organized into the following series: I. Correspondence; II. Music; III. Writings; IV.
Photographs; V. Miscellaneous; VI. Audio tapes; and VII. Scrapbooks.
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Indexing Terms
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The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in
IUCAT, the IU Libraries'
online catalog. Materials about related topics, persons or places can be found by
searching the catalog using these terms.
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Series:
Box 1
Correspondence,
Organized into two sections: 1. Correspondence with colleagues, family and
friends and arranged in alphabetical order. Replies by Kent and Sally Cooper
are filed with the person with whom they were corresponding.
2. Condolence letters written to Sally upon Kent's death. These are also
arranged alphabetically and are mostly photocopies.
List of Correspondents
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View All (315)
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Aaron, Joseph
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Abernethy, C.J.
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Adams, Hampton, 1897-1965
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Alderman, Robert G.
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Armstrong, Stanley
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Arue, Sigrid
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Aylesworth, Merlin Hall, 1886-1952
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Ball, Edward D.
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Barker, M.E.
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Barnett, Stanley Pugh, 1892-1969
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Barnwell, James H.
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Barrett, Edward W. (Edward Ware), 1910-1989
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Bartley, Edward Ross, 1892-1969
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Barton, Bruce, 1886-1967
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Bayh, Birch Evans, 1928-
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Beebe, George, 1910-
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Bell, Alberta (Harris)(Mrs. Brian Bell)
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Bellamy, Pat
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Bender, Ursula
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Beranek, Barbara A., 1927-
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Bernays, Edward L., 1891-1995
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Bickel, Karl August, 1882-1972
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Biddle, Francis, 1886-1968
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Bingham, Barry, 1906-1988
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Blackman, Samuel Garrison, 1904-
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Born, Gerald
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Boyle, Hal, 1911-1974
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Boyle, Ted
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Bradley, Norman
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Branigen, Roger Douglas, 1902-1975
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Brito, Manoel Francisco do Nascimento
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Brown, Betty
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Brown, James Wright, 1873-1959
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Brown, Robert N.
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Brown, Robert Uting, 1912-
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Brown, Trevor R.
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Brown, Walter T.
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Buell, Hal
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Bunzlová, Alice see: Swinton, Stanley
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Burke, Genevieve
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Butler, William F.
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Byrd, Cecil Kash, 1913-
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Byrd, Harry Flood, 1914-
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Byrd, Richard Evelyn, 1888-1957
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Byrd, Richard Evelyn, -1988
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Caldwell, William F.
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Campbell, Chesser, 1897-1960
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Cannon, William C.
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Carney, Ted
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Carpenter, Francis Warner, 1907-
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Carter, W.F.
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Catledge, Turner, 1901-1983
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Cerf, Bennett Alfred, 1898-1971
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Chandler, Dorothy, 1901-1997
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Chandler, Norman, 1899-1973
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Choate, Robert
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Clark, Thomas Dionysius, 1903-
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Cochrane, Paul
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Cole, Walton
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Collins, Dorothy (Craig), 1912-
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Conner, David
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Connor, Mary Logan
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Cope, Margaret W. (Kilgore)
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Cope, Millard Louis, 1905-1964
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Cosgrave, John O'Hara, 1908-1968
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Cowles, John, 1898-1983
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Crane, Frank Harrison, 1912-
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Crooks, Alec C.
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Crooks, John
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Crouse, Russel, 1893-1966
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Crowley, Marguerite A.
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Curtis, Josiah Montgomery, 1905-1982
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Curtis, L.F.
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DeLuce, Daniel, 1911-
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Desfor, Irving, 1907-
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Diehl, Chandler
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Dopking, Al
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Douglass, Cy
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Dumas, Lady Daisy
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Dumas, Lloyd, Sir, 1891-1973
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Edlund, Paul Erik, 1922-
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Einhorn, Nathan R., 1923-1982
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Ethridge, Mark Foster, 1896-1981
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Eunson, Robert, 1912-1975
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Evans, John
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Fanning, Kay
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Fanning, Perry
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Farrar, John Chipman, 1896-1974
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Fell, Charles Albert, 1889-1969
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Fennell, W. Frank
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Field, Katherine W.
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Field, Marshal, 1916-1965
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Finucane, Bernard Emmet, 1889-
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Fisher, Geoffrey Francis, Abp. of Canterbury,
1887-1972
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Fitzgerald, Harold Alvin, 1896-
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Folliard, Edward T. (Edward Thomas), b.1899
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Foreman, Jacque see: Houston Harte
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Forrest, Wilbur Studley, 1887-1977
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French, A. Harry, 1881-
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Friendly, Alfred, 1911-1983
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Friendly, Edwin Samson, 1884-1970
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Frohlich, Richard F.
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Fukuoka, Saeko
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Fukuoka, Seiichi
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Fuller, Frank H.
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Fyfe, Jeanne?
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Galbraith, Dallas E.W.
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Gallagher, Wesley, 1911-
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Gannett, Frank Ernest, 1876-1957
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Gaylord, Edward King, 1873-1974
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Gerhard, Harry
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Goldberg, Abe Isaac, 1904-1973
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Gottlieb, Howard B.
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Gould, Alan J.
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Graham, Katharine, 1917-
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Graham, Philip L., 1915-1963
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Gramling, Oliver, 1904-1992
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Haley, Sir William John, 1901-
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Haley, Edith Susie (Gibbons)
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Haley, Susan see: Haley, Edith Susie
(Gibbons)
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Hansell, Paul
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Hansen, Harry, 1884-1977
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Harte, Houston, 1893-1975
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Harte, Isabel
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Harwell, Coleman A. (Coleman Alexander),
1905-
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Hathaway, Rhoda Terry
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Hathaway, Russell
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Healy, George William, 1905-1980
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Healy, Patty K.
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Heiskell, John Netherland, 1872-1972
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Henderson, Edwin F., 1891?-
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Heppe, Ralph H.
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Herdman, J.E.L.
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Hill, I. William (Isaac William), 1908-
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Hill, Raymond R.
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Hopkins, A.S.
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Horne, Josh L., 1887-1974
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Horton, William
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Howard, Margaret (Rohe)
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Howard, Nathaniel R.
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Howard, Roy Wilson, 1883-1964
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Hults, William S.
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Irwin, Joseph E.
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Iwama, Hiroko
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Iwamoto, Hiroshi
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Iwamoto, Jun
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Iwamoto, Ken
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Iwamoto, Kiyoshi, 1904-1976
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Iwamoto, Fumi see Iwamoto, Kiyoshi
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Iwamoto, Reiko
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Iwanaga, Shinkichi, 1911-
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James, Hubert
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James, Kay
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Jamison, John C.
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Johnston, Cora S.
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Jones, Vincent Starbuck, 1906-
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Jorzick, Elizabeth
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Kaiser, C.F.
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Kato, Masuo
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Keary, Hubbard, 1902-
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Keech, Virgina R.
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Kemp, Edward
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King, Frank H.
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King, Olga
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Kirkland, Weymouth, 1877-1965
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Knight, John Shively, 1894-1981
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Kramp, Louis J., 1912?-1965
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La Hue, Evelyn M.
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Lavalle, Paul, 1908-
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Lee, Paul K.
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Leslie, L.U.
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Lindsay, Edward
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Lloyd, John
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Lochner, Louis Paul, 1887-1975
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Long, Laura
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Loomis, Robert D.
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Lowe, H.A.
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Lowensohn, Naoma see Roy Wilson Howard
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Luscombe, George E.
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Lyle, Charles H.
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McCormick, Maryland Mathison Hooper
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McCormick, Robert Rutherford, 1880-1955
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MacDonald, Kenneth, 1905-
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McKelway, Benjamin M. (Benjamin Mosby),
1895-1976
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MacKenzie, Dewitt, 1865-1962
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MacKenzie, Marjorie
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McKnight, Felix R.
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McLean, Robert, 1891-1980
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McMurray, Richard
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Mahoney, John Thomas, 1905-1981
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Maloney, J. Loy (James Loy), 1891-1976
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Marshall, Robert J.
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Martel, Elmer P.
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Mason, H.R.
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Mathews, William Rankin, 1893-
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Maxwell, Don
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Meltzer, Howard
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Meyer, Eugene F., 1875-1959
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Miller, Joseph R.
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Miller, Kenper
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Miller, Louise (Johnson)
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Miller, Paul, 1906-
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Miller, Victor H., 1874-
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Montgomery, Harry Thomas, 1909-
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Moynihan, Arthur
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Nicholas, James E.
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Nixon, Alton Jones
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Nixon, Kent Cooper
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Noyes, Frank Brett, 1863-1948
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Noyes, Beatrice Spencer Baldwin (Mrs. Newbold
Noyes)
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Nussbaum, Max Ehrlich, 1907-
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O'Brien, James Michael, 1934-
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Ochs, Adolph Simon, 1858-1935
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Ogden, Michael Joseph, 1911-
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O'Halloran, C.
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Oishi, Haruko
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Oishi, Masumitsu
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O'Neil, Tom
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Oppengard, M.M.
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O'Regan, Richard Arthur, 1919-
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Paine, Vera
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Parsons, Frank L.
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Perkes, Daniel
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Perry, John H., Jr.
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Pfadt, John M.
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Phillippi, Wendell C.
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Pope, James S.
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Pulliam, Eugene Collins, 1889-1974
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Pulliam, Nina, 1906-
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Purcell, Gillis
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Quarrier, John C.
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Quigley, Fred
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Rand, Rowland
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Randall, David Anton, 1905-1975
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Record, James Robert, 1885-1973
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Reese, Marguerite J.
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Reeves, Charlotte
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Reeves, George C.
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Reeves, Jane
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Richardson, Bill
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Rickel, E.L.
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Ridder, Agnes (Kennedy)
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Ridder, Bernard Herman, 1883-1975
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Ridder, Bernard Herman, 1916-
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Ridder, Joseph Edward, 1886-1966
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Roberts, George McK., 1886?-
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Roberts, Roy A. (Roy Allison), 1887-1967
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Roderick, John
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Rothermere, Vere Harold Edmond Harmsworth, viscount,
1925-
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Rotter, Saul D.
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Runyon, John William, 1887-1967
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Russell, Rosslyn
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Ryan, John William, 1929-
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Sammons, Wheeler, 1899-1956
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Sarnoff, David, 1891-1971
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Sheen, Marjorie
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Simons, Dolph C. (Dolph Collins), 1904-1989
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Simpson, Kirke Larue, 1881-1972
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Sims, Watson
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Smith, Charles Stephenson, 1877-1964
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Smith, E.W.
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Smith, Stanford, 1919-
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Spangler, Raymond L.
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Speidel, Merritt Charles, 1879-1960
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Spencer, Murlin Bertrand, 1908-
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Stahr, Elvis Jacob, 1916-
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Stanley, Edward
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Stanley, Oscar M.
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Starzel, Frank Joseph, 1904?-
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Staton, Y.A.
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Stemple, John Emmert, 1903-1982
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Stratton, Lloyd, 1895-1961
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Straus, Roger W.
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Stuart, Jim
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Sulzburger, Arthur Hays, 1891-1968
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Swinton, Stanley M. (Stanley Mitchell),
1919-1982
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Sykes, Jill
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Sykes, Josephine (Mrs. Hale Pledge Sykes)
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Tarplee, Marge
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Taylor, Mary Elizabeth Plummer, 1906-
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Taylor, Davis
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Thompson, Arthur S.
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Tomlinson, James Francis, 1925-
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Trammel, Niles, 1894-1973
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Tunney, Gene, 1897-1978
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Turnblad, Harold
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Turner, George W.
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Underwood, Sallie H.
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Vail, Richard
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Vinicky, Joseph J.
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Waldrop, Frank C.
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Walpole, Doris G. Hoyt
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Watkins, Charles D., 1886-1962
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Weil, Louis A., 1878-1959
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Wells, Herman B, 1902-
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Welsh, Matthew Empson, 1912-1995
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Wheeler, John Neville, 1886-1973
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White, Marion A.
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Whiteford, R.K.
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Whitehead, Donald Ford, 1908-1981
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Wiley, Louis, 1869-1935
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Williams, Flavia
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Willkie, Edith, 1890-1978
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Willkie, Philip Herman, 1919-1974
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Wilson, Walter A.
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Wolff, Miles H.
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Wood, John Howard, 1901-1988
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Wood, Jennings, 1911-1984
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Wood, Lee B. (Lee Blair), 1893-1982
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Woodruff, Frederick William, 1886-1959
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Woodyard, Mabel see: Eugene Pulliam
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Yale, L. Pat
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Yoakam, Richard D.
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Young, Owen D., 1874-1962
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Zeff, Nathan I.
Series:
Music,
Arranged alphabetically by title of composition and includes correspondence
and copyright information related to that title. There is also
correspondence with ASCAP (American Society of Composers, Authors and
Publishers), 1948-1985, and BMI (Broadc ast Music, Inc.), 1965-1982,
concerning Cooper's compositions. One folder of unidentified music and
several compositions by other composers completes this section.
Box 2
Compositions:
"About the Girl"
"All Hail Smith College"
"America Needs You "
"Anna Zenger"
"Deacon Boody Howdy Do"
"Dixie Girl"
"Don't You Want My Heart"
"Doodlebird "
"I'll Not Forget"
"Indiana Forever "
"June-Time"
"Love Is"
"Magic of the Violin"
"March of the Forty-Eight States"
"My Village Girl"
"Overture Lola Montez"
"Rochester"
"Song of the Alaska Highway"
"Sunset"
"There Came the Day"
"They'll be Returning"
"They'll Make Love Our Way"
"Victory and Mary"
"Women's Auxiliary Army Corps."
(WAC song)
"We Want Peace see They'll Make Love Our
Way "
"What is Time"
"When Love is the Guide"
"Yankee Doodle Dixie Dandy"
unidentified music
Music by others (printed)
ASCAP, 1948-1985 (2 folders)
B.M.I., 1965-1982 (1 folder)
Music by others (printed)
"'Round My Indiana Home,"
words by
J. Will Callahan, music by Joe Dunn, autographed by
Callahan.
"Put Me Off at Buffalo,"
words by
Harry Dillon, music by John Dillon
Series:
Writings
Arranged alphabetically by title of work:
Box 2
Addresses before the Associated Press
Letter to M. Stone,
"Have just
re-read this. It was the first gun I fired in written form
against the antiquated agency relationship and is historic
solely for that reason KC; "
Sep 1,
1919.
Memorandum on Agency Contracts,
"Reread - the second gun in the agency fight, read to Board,
Jan. 1922;"
May 17,
1920.
Feb 15,
1922
Oct
1925
Apr 21,
1930
Oct
1935
Jan 8,
1941
Oct 17,
1941
Oct
1944
Oct 10,
1962
"Anna Zenger."
Contract, list of
reviews pasted in [scrapbook]
"Barriers Down."
Research
materials
"Kent Cooper and the Associated
Press."
Contract, research materials
[McCormick, Robert R.]. Articles written by Cooper for Chicago
Tribune
"Piracy of News."
Article, Oct. 2, 1961
"Port of Destiny."
Article condensed
from the book Dynamo Jim Stiles: pioneer of progress; the story of a
newspaper publisher who built a country and a legend, by Edward Uhlan
(New York: Exposition Press, 1959). Foreword only, written by Kent
Cooper.
"The Right to Know."
Contract
only
Untitled fragments
Series:
Box
2-3
and
Oversize
Photographs, 1925-1979
Arranged by year, the photographs are primarily of board meetings and
functions of the Associated Press. There are also some early family
photographs, travel pictures, and a group documenting the dedication of the
Kent Cooper Room in the Main Library of Indiana University in 1971.
Series:
Box 3
Miscellaneous
Various materials on the following topics: Associated Press; Kent's death,
including obituaries and a resolution by the AP upon his death; the sale of
the Washington Times-Herald; Kent Cooper Room dedication. Also included are
miscellaneous printed pieces and ephemera, including a metal life member
card to the Sigma Chi Fraternity and lapel pins for AP, ASCAP, and Sigma
Delta Chi
Series:
Box 3
Audio Tapes
Eight reel-to-reel tapes. Includes: four tapes of music mostly composed by
Kent, one tape of "Reuter speech" given in London, one tape of Wes
Gallagher's speech at Kent Cooper Room dedication (May 16, 1971), two tapes
of conversation between Kent, Sally, family and friends
Box 3
Scrapbooks, 1925-1983
Fifteen volumes, 1925-1983. Primarily clippings about Cooper and the AP, and
some articles written by Cooper