Elmer F. Cope Papers on Microfilm
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Scope and Contents
The collection provides substantial information on Cope's working years, but contains scanty material on his early years. The Elmer F. Cope Papers contain information on Cope's childhood, schooling, and career. His high-school and college educational experiences (1919-1930) are documented in boxes 1 to 5.
The emphasis on his years (1929- 1930) at Brookwood Labor College and his association with A.J. Muste. Material covering period from 1929-1934, in boxes 6 to 11, contains correspondence and newspaper clippings on such labor-related subjects as the Empire Steel Corporation strike of 1931, Father James R. Cox's "Jobless March" in 1932, and the Steel Strike in Warren, Ohio of 1932.
Dates
- 1903-1965
Creator
- Cope, Elmer Fern (creator, Person)
Language of Materials
Collection material in English
Conditions Governing Access
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Conditions Governing Use
This collection must be used in keeping with the Kheel Center Information Sheet and Procedures for Document Use.
Biographical / Historical
Elmer Fern Cope was born July 24, 1903 at Ellwood, Indiana. Besides his political leadership Cope worked in other areas to improve labor's image in the community, to increase and improve labor education, to strengthen the Department of Church and Economic Life of the National Council of Churches, and to complete the merger of AFL and CIO agencies in Ohio. In May, 1963, he announced his resignation of his Ohio AFL-CIO office for reasons of health.
Extent
6 cubic feet
Abstract
This microfilm edition of the Elmer F. Cope Papers consists of correspondence (50% of collection), reports (20% of collection), newspaper clippings (20% of the collection), and other items (10% of the collection). The other items include bills, travel brochures, tickets, transportation schedules, greeting cards, business cards, appointment books, and calendars. The original papers are held by the Ohio Historical Society, Collection no.137.
Quantity:
55 microfilm reels
Forms of Material:
Papers (documents), microfilm.
General
- Contact Information:
- Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation and Archives 227 Ives Hall Tower Road Cornell University Ithaca, NY 14853 (607) 255-3183 kheelref@cornell.edu https://catherwood.library.cornell.edu/kheel/
- Compiled by:
- Kheel Staff, February 12, 2013
- EAD encoding:
- Kheel Staff, April 17, 2019
- Title
- Cope, Elmer F. Papers on Microfilm
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Compiled by Kheel Staff
- Date
- April 17, 2019
- Language of description
- Undetermined
- Script of description
- Code for undetermined script
Revision Statements
- 02/23/2024: This resource was modified by the ArchivesSpace Preprocessor developed by the Harvard Library (https://github.com/harvard-library/archivesspace-preprocessor)
Repository Details
Part of the Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation & Archives Repository