Edith and Earl Cook family visual arts materials
Scope and Content
This collection contains original photographic prints, daguerreotypes, and negatives depicting members of Edith Cook's extended family. These materials include images of members of the Bell, Brockman, Cook, Collier, Dicks, Dolt, Hall, Harber, Ingram, Lowman, Owen, Potts, Thomas, Waldo, and Wilson families. There are also photographs of family residences in Georgia and Ohio and images related to Earl P. Cook, Jr.'s work with Southern Bell in Tennessee and Florida.
Dates
- 1875-1989, undated
Creator
- Cook, Earl Pope, 1919- (Person)
- Cook, Edith Harber, 1918- (Person)
Conditions Governing Access
This collection is open for research.
Conditions Governing Reproduction and Use
This collection is protected by copyright law. (Title 17, U.S. Code) Permission for use must be cleared through the Kenan Research Center at the Atlanta History Center. Licensing agreement may be required.
Administrative/Biographical History
Edith Wilson Harber married Earl P. Cook, Jr. of Atlanta, Georgia in 1947. The Georgia roots of Edith Cook's genealogy begin with the Dicks family in the late 1700s. Jonathon Dicks married Isabella Collier in 1812 in Savannah, Georgia. Their daughter, Anna Isabella Dicks, married George Pegram Wagnon; and their daughter, Alice Ione Dicks married James Lorenzo Bell, a Confederate Civil War veteran. James and Alice's daughter, Eva Eliza Bell, married Manson Wilson, the son of W. A. Wilson, who also served in the Confederate Army. One of Eva's daughters, May Hall Wilson, married Paul T. Harber. The couple had a daughter, Edith Wilson Harber. Genealogical information concerning the extended family of Earl P. Cook, Jr. has not been determined.
Extent
256 item(s) (233 photographic prints, 5 cased images, and 18 negatives)
Language
English
System of Arrangement
Alphabetical according to titles supplied by staff
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Gift of Edith and Earl Cook, 2003 (2003.056) and 2008 (2008.087)
Description Control
Collection processed in 2011.
- Architecture, Domestic -- Georgia
- Bell, Alice I. Wagnon
- Bell, James L.
- Clothing & dress -- 1890-1900
- Clothing & dress -- 1910-1920
- Collier, Isabel
- Cook, Earl Pope, 1919-
- Cook, Edith Harber, 1918-
- Daguerreotypes
- Dolt, Jeanne
- Glass, Sara Amanda
- Hall, DeWitt
- Harber, May Hall Wilson
- Photography -- Georgia -- Atlanta
- Southern Bell Telephone and Telegraph Company
- Thomas, Alice
- Thomas, Edward Lloyd
- Wagnon, Anne Dicks
- Williams, Kate Ingram
- Wilson, Alice B.
- Wilson, Eva Bell
- Wilson, Helen O.
- Wilson, William Ashbury
- Title
- Edith and Earl Cook family visual arts materials
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Laura Starratt
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Language of description note
- Finding aid is written in English.
Repository Details
Part of the Kenan Research Center at Atlanta History Center Repository