MARY RUDD COCHRAN (1882-1988)
PAPERS, 1882-1988
INVENTORY
Series I. Autobiographical Files
Box 1
Autobiographical Files
Autobiography, handwritten drafts of, 1973-1979
Autobiography, handwritten notes of, n.d.
Autobiography (Ellen Speers edition), wordproccessed, 1996
Untitled Manuscript (Ellen Speers; re: Mary Rudd Cochran's childhood
at Mt. Auburn), 1996
Series II. Biographical and Vital Records Files
Box 1
Biographical Files
Application, Mt. Pleasant Retirement Home, 1962-1963
Burial Plot, Purchase of, 1951, 1967
Certificate, Lifetime Membership, American Library Association, 1946
Certification, County District Librarian, 1931
Clippings (re: Mary Rudd Cochran), 1920s, 1960s-1980s
Clippings, 1950s-1970s
Clippings, Mt. Auburn, 1950s-1970s
Correspondence (re: genealogy), 1905, 1925, 1967
Excerpt, "Finney: A Study of a Leader," n.d.
Genealogy, Charts and Notes of, 1925, 1967, n.d.
List, Persons to Notify Upon Death, 1964, 1974, n.d.
Vital Records Files
Birth Certificate (copy), 1946
Census, 1900 (photocopy)
Last Will and Testament (copy), 1973
Passports, 1920s-1960s
Physical Examinations, 1934, 1936
Will of Mary Rudd Cochran, Carolyn Miller's Correspondence
relating to, 1982
Series III. Correspondence Files (Incoming and Outgoing)
Box 2
Correspondence (Outgoing)
Correspondence (Outgoing), 1892-1980 (6f)
Correspondence (Incoming) from Relatives
Helen Hudson Allen (aunt), 1927
Hildegarde Allen (2nd cousin), 1947, 1963 (2 items)
Bardella Family (sponsored family from Austria), 1947-1953, 1956-1959,
1965, 1971, 1973, 1977-1979, 1981 (47 items)
Jeanette Allen Behre (cousin), 1937, 1954, 1956, 1973-1975 (7 items)
Allen Deane Cochran (brother), 1919, 1935-1938, 1942, n.d. (7 items)
Eleanor Cochran (niece), 1967
Helen Finney Cochran (sister), 1906-1907, 1911, 1918 (5 items)
Marion Cochran (niece), 1935, 1939, 1946, 1960, 1963, 1975, 1980
(8 items)
Melanie Cochran (grandniece), 1966, 1980 (2 items)
William and Carol Cochran (nephew and niece), 1943, 1954, 1967,
1975-1976 (5 items)
William C. Cochran (father), 1893, 1895, 1898, 1900-1904, 1906-1907,
1925 (21 items)
William S. Cochran (brother), 1906-1909, 1911, 1927, 1932, 1943, 1945,
1955, 1959, 1962-1963 (20 items)
Allyn Cox (cousin), 1964
Faith Cox (cousin), 1960, n.d. (2 items)
Helen Finney Cochran Cox (grandmother), 1898, 1904-1905 (6 items)
Rhetta Cox (cousin), 1966, 1972, 1976, n.d. (4 items)
Katherine Allen Curtis (cousin), 1935, 1943, 1958 (3 items)
Helen Wright Dutton (2nd cousin), 1946, 1949 (2 items)
Helen Black Grafton (cousin), 1959, 1962 (2 items)
Eunice Chandler Allen Hood (cousin), 1966, n.d. (2 items)
Margaret Allen Hubbard (cousin), 1941
Box 3
Carolyn Allen Lang (cousin), 1938
Caroline Cox Lansing (cousin), 1972
Frances Cochran MacDaniels (sister), 1960, 1962, 1971, 1977 (6 items)
Carolyn MacDaniels Miller (niece), 1975, 1979, (5 items)
Janet Miller (grandniece), 1975, n.d. (2 items)
Julia Finney Monroe (great aunt), 1923
Helen Hosford Noble (cousin), 1968
Hope Cox Pope (aunt), 1894-1895, 1899, 1926-1928, 1931,
1934-1936 (12 items)
Clara Lang Reid (2nd cousin), 1974
Ellen MacDaniels Speers (niece), 1978, 1980 (2 items)
Martha Speers (niece), 1979
Peter and Irma Speers (nephew and niece), n.d.
Elizabeth Allen Titus (cousin), 1942-1943, 1973-1976 (26 items)
Correspondence (Incoming)
Correspondence (Incoming), 1907-1982 (3f)
Correspondence (Incoming and Outgoing)
William Bigglestone (Oberlin Archivist), 1972, 1975 (10 items)
Ed Tobias (Executive Director of Oberlin College Alumni Association),
1967-1975 (11 items)
Series IV. Financial and Property Files
Box 4
Financial Files
Account Books, 1905-1975 (4f)
Charitable Contributions, 1974
Box 5
Contract, Hiring of Maid, 1934
Contract of Contribution, Cincinnati Public Library and Hamilton County
Library District Staff Association Fund, 1944
Property Files
Appraisal of Personal Property, c. 1960s
Amendment, Purchase of New Richmond, Ohio, Property, c. 1940s
Contract (copy), Building of Water Main, New Richmond, Ohio, 1941
Contract, Purchase of Cottage, Mt. Pleasant Retirement Home, 1962
Contract (copy), Sale of New Richmond, Ohio, Property, 1962
Contract (copy), Sale of 241 Gilman Street Property, Mt. Auburn,
Ohio, 1940
Correspondence, Distribution of Personal Property, 1930, 1957, 1962 1964-1968
Correspondence (Incoming and Outgoing with Carolyn Miller and Ellen
Speers), Kenneth Minko, with photograph of J.D. Cox home, 1988
Description, Gilman Street Lots, Mt. Auburn, Ohio, 1940?
List, Distribution of Personal Property, 1950s, 1970s
Maps, Gilman Street Lots, Mt. Auburn, Ohio, 1940?
Series V. Committee Reports and Writings Files
Box 6
Committee Reports File
Annual Reports, General Reference Department, Cincinnati Public
Library, 1931, 1933, 1935
Correspondence, Ohio Library Association Committee on Institutional
Libraries, 1950, 1959-1962
Report to the Ohio Library Association of the Committee on Libraries in
State Institutions, 1945
Writings File (Other writings by Mary Rudd Cochran are located in Series VI.)
"The Acquisition and Care of Special Collections," Library Journal 54,
no. 6, March 15, 1929, and Draft, n.d.
"The County Librarian," Paper, n.d.
"History of the Cranston Memorial Presbyterian Church of New
Richmond, Ohio, 1821-1956," Pamphlet, 1956
"The Library in a Correctional Institution&emdash;Its Contents," American Journal
of Correction 23, no. 4, July-August 1961
"The Libraries in Ohio State Institutions," Paper and Report, 1945-1946
The Mount Auburn Presbyterian Church, 1868-1943: A Historical
Sketch, 1943
"The Relation of the County Librarian to Other County Officers," Paper,
1927
"State Institution Libraries in Ohio," Library Journal, July 1918 and
Draft, n.d.
Untitled Manuscript, n.d.
"Women Voters," (re: Clermont County League of Women Voters)
Editorial, 1965
Series VI. Files Relating to the Business and Professional Women's Club (Cincinnati)
Box 7
Correspondence (incoming and outgoing)
Correspondence (incoming and outgoing), 1941-1943, 1959, 1970,
1975-1977
Organizational Files
Annual Reports of the President and Treasurer, 1937-1938, 1941, 1942
Clippings (re: World War Two), c. 1940s
Invitation, 25th Anniversary Celebration, 1944?
List, Committee on Lectures and Classes, 1931-1932
List of Contents, Safety Deposit Box, 1938
Minutes, Special Meetings, Board of Directors, 1942
Programs and Publications, 1939, 1941, 1943, 1947, 1954, 1975, 1981
Writings File
"A Dream&emdash;A Venture&emdash;A Reward," Essay on Trip to Mexico, 1930
"A Foreign Policy Based in Recognition of World Interdependence,"
Speech, 1936
"Early Business Women of Cincinnati," Radio Speech, 1929
"Five Reasons Why I like To Work For Women," "Five Reasons Why I Like
To Work For Men," Essays, 1925
"Letters to Mothers, or, Jobs for Women, or, Progress of Business Women
in Cincinnati During the Past 150 Years," Play, n.d.
Notes on Talks, National Business Women's Week, 1939
Radio Script, National Business Women's Week, 1942?
"We Went to Mexico with Hallie Wanzer," Essay on Trip to Mexico, 1930
Series VII. Oberlin College Class of 1903 Files
Box 8
Correspondence (incoming and outgoing) Files, 1936-1975
Correspondence (general), 1936, 1948-1949, 1958, 1963, 1966-1969,
1971, 1973, n.d.
Correspondence, as Class President, 1965-1975
Necrology Files
Necrology (original), c. 1960s
Necrology (photocopy), c. 1960s
Lists
List, Financial Contributions of Living Graduates, 1975
List (partial), Graduates, 1975
Series VIII. Travel Files
Box 9
Travel Files
File Relating to Trips to Europe, 1962, 1964
File Relating to Trips to South America, 1946-1948, 1957
Passenger List, Trip to Mexico (with Business and Professional Women's
Club), 1930
Postcards (with lists of travels in 1907 and 1928), n.d.
Research File, "Itinerary of Louis Philippe and his Followers in
America," n.d.
Travel Diary, 1963-1964
Written Account (from travel companion), Trip to the United States and
Canada, 1937
Series IX. Miscellaneous Files
Box 10
Mt. Pleasant Retirement Home Files
List, Recommended Titles of Reference Books, 1970
Postcards, Mt. Pleasant Retirement Home, n.d.
Files Relating to Birthday
Guest book, 95th Birthday, 1976
Guest book, 100th Birthday, 1981
Letters of Congratulation, 100th Birthday, 1981
Poem, 98th Birthday, 1979
Other Files
Bibliographic Notes, Personal Reading List, n.d.
Class Notes, Bibliography, "History of Book Illustration," c. 1900s
List, Age of Retirement of College Presidents, n.d.
List, Christmas Cards Received, 1974
List, Flowers Sent to Rosa Dale Cochran, n.d.
Materials Relating to the Sponsorship of the Bardella Family to the U.S.,
1947, 1951
Pencil Sketch of Mary Rudd Cochran, 1976
Poem, "Mary Cochran's House," c. 1950s
Research File, Mt. Auburn, 1953-1955
Box 11 (Oversize)
Other Files (cont.)
Arctic Circle Crossing, Proclamation of Congratulation, 1964
"Oberlin Our Alma Mater," School Song, n.d.
100th Birthday, Letter of Congratulation, 1981
100th Birthday, Proclamation, Mt. Pleasant, Monroe, Ohio,
and Cincinnati, Ohio, 1981
Box 12
Collected Publications File
Cultural Publications, 1920s-1970s (i.e., Bulletin of the Historical and
Philosophical Society of Ohio) (2f)
Box 13
Library Publications, 1910s-1960s (i.e., American Libraries)
Political and International Relations Publications, 1950s-1970s (i.e.,
charter of the United Nations) (2f)
Series X. Photographs Files
Box 14
Portraits (12 images)
Mary Rudd Cochran, 1882, 1887?, 1899, 1900, 1902, c. 1920, 1941,
1946, 1960, c. 1970s, 1976, 1981
Group Photographs (15 images)
Mary Caroline Rudd Allen (grandma) and Mary Rudd Cochran, c. 1880s
Mrs. Bardella and Mary Rudd Cochran, 1953
"Cleveland Delegation," Business and Professional Women's Club (?),
St. Paul, MN, 1920
Mary, Will, and Helen Cochran, 1893
Mary Rudd Cochran and Classmates (?), Oberlin, Ohio, 1903
"Mary [Cochran] and Elizabeth [Warner] on Del Norte," 1957
"Mary Cochran and Mrs. Salzburg on Deck of Caronia," 1964
Luncheon, Ohio Federation at Women's City Club, The National
Federation of Business and Professional Women's Club, Inc.,"
Kansas City, MO, 1939
"Mabel and Mary [Rudd Cochran] in front of Cochran House," 1947
"Ohio Delegation," Business and Professional Women's Club (?),
St. Paul, MN, 1920
"Mrs. Sokolov, Mrs. Bardella, Lidia, Mary R. Cochran," 1953
"On S.S. Del Mar, Mary Cochran Illustrating 'My Bonnie Lies Over the Ocean, Oh Bring Back My Bonnie to Me'," 1957
"S.S. Del Mar, The Audience at the Contest Illustrating Titles of Songs,"
1957
Hickory Hills, New Richmond, Ohio (36 images)
Avey Acres, n.d.
"The Avey Christmas Tree," 1932
"The Bend at Point Pleasant and the Cranston's Beech Woods," 1932
"The Big Tree to be Felled," 1932
"Dynamiting a Stump," 1932
"Elizabeth Tenney's Pictures", 1934 (2 with Mary Rudd Cochran) (5)
"Elm on Gee Hill Road," 1932
"Farm by the River," 1932
"Frank Mack and the Elgin Boys," 1934
"The Garage," 1932
"Gee Hill Road Leaves the Highway," 1934
"The Hickory Tree, Misses Dunlap, Collman, Wilson, Carter, Coy,?," 1932
"Mack, Elgin, Stevens, Dunham, Rankin, Tellefsen, Coney," 1934
"Miss Jacobson's Cottage," 1934 (2)
"Mr. Preston and Mr. Gardner," 1932
"Mr. Preston and Will Begin Work on the Lane," 1932
"Miss Wilson's Tool House," 1934
"A Picnic," 1932
"Staff on Election Day&emdash;Rothenberg, Wiggers, Cartwright, Preuninger,
Cates, Pell, Eikenhout, Mehring," 1934
"Stile Mr. Avey Built," 1932
"The Terraplane," 1934
"Tree, Bush and Hollow Obstruct the Lane," 1932
"Two Views of the Garage," 1932 (2)
Unidentified, 1932 (2)
"View from the Garage," 1932
View from Hickory Hill, 1932 (4)
Home, Building of, New Richmond, Ohio (11 images)
"Automobiles of Mssrs. Bardon, Donham, Grause, Tomlin, Bennett and
Miss Schwab," n.d
"Cellar Walls," 1949
"Cellar Walls from the Southeast," n.d.
"The Footings," 1949
"Pouring the Floor," 1949 (2)
"Rising Walls," 1949
"Septic Tank and Drain," 1950
"Septic Tank&emdash;Tile Laid in Gravel," 1949
Unfinished Home, 1949
"Walls Higher, Steel Girders in Place," n.d.
Home, New Richmond, Ohio (9 images)
"Basement Garage," n.d.
"Entrance to Cochran Property near New Richmond," n.d.
"Entrance to Wilson-Jacobson-Cochran Land," n.d.
Fireplace, n.d.
"Fireplace in Living Room," n.d.
"From Gee Hill; Entrance to Wilson-Jacobson-Cochran Acres," n.d.
Happy New Year's Card, Home, 1955
"Hickory Hill", Mary Rudd Cochran and Home, n.d.
Home, 1950
Mt. Auburn, Ohio (8 images)
"Entrance to Reakirt Property," and Negative, 1950
"Entrance to L.B. Reakirt Grounds, Judge Thompson's House At Left,"
and Negative, 1950
"Entrance to Reakirt House," and Negative, 1950
"Entrance and Lawn of the Reakirt House," and Negative, 1950
"Front Door of the Reakirt House, One of the Statues in the Yard," and
Negative, 1950
"Rear of the Reakirt House, Taken from Bodmann Avenue," and
Negative, 1950
"Water Being Brought from House to House, Gilman Avenue, Mt.
Auburn," 1937
"Water Tank on Huntington Place, Taft House in Background," 1937
Miscellaneous Photographs (10 images)
American Library Association Meeting, Hot Springs, 1923
Albino Gorno, n.d.
Katharine A. Crafts (Mrs. Earl Adams), '03
"Miss Freeman, Hot Springs," American Library Association
Meeting, 1923
"Roena Ingham," American Library Association Meeting, Hot
Springs, 1923
"90th Birthday Picture, From Your Friend, Anna J. Perrfield," n.d.
"On S.S. Del Mar, Elizabeth Warner Illustrating 'The Last Rose of
Summer'," 1957
"Mrs. Sokolov, Mrs. Bardello, Lidia, Mr. Bardello," 1953
"Ruth Wilcox at Hot Springs," American Library Association
Meeting, 1923
Lily ________, 1896
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