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Cook Family Papers 1872-1976

INVENTOR NAME: Cook Family

REPOSITORY:
Old Dominion University
Perry Library
Norfolk, Virginia 23529-0256
757-683-4483
URL: http://www.lib.odu.edu/aboutlib/spccol/index.shtml


PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION:
6 Hollinger Boxes and 1 Hollinger Documents Case
SUMMARY:
The Cook Family Papers, dating from 1872 to 1976, include material documenting the lives of the children of Arthur Clarico and Emma Blow Freeman, and later generations. Most of the collection centers on the personal and business papers of Allen Merriam Cook. The collection documents a prominent Norfolk family, the development of subdivisions in Norfolk and Virginia Beach, and the career of a Naval Officer from 1889 - 1919.

Includes information about inventions in:

Inventions, World War I May-August 1917 Box 1, Folder 2

Inventions, World War II December 1939-August 1950 Box 1, Folder 3

ACCESS:
FINDING AID: http://ead.lib.virginia.edu/vivaead/published/odu/vivadoc.pl?file=vino00023.xml
SUBJECTS:  Military
 
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