Title: Cooley Family Photographs
Inclusive Dates: circa 1900-1970

Creator:

• Cooley, Dorothy Jane, collector

Call Number: PH 3280; PH 4136; PH 4136 (3)

Quantity: 21 photographs; plus additions of 161 photographs

Repository:

Wisconsin Historical Society, Division of Library, Archives, and Museum Collections

Archival Locations:

Wisconsin Historical Society (Map)

COLLECTION MAY BE STORED OFF-SITE: see catalog entry to request materials and for additional information.

Abstract:

This collection consists of photographs relating to Charles F. Cooley of Madison, Wisconsin. Cooley, a prominent Madison businessman known as “Cooley the Koal Man,” ran C.F. Cooley Coal Company from 1876 until his death in 1925. The majority of the images in the collection are of Cooley's Lake Monona residence, 1251 Rutledge Street, Madison. Also in the collection are images of Charles F. Cooley, his family, the C.F. Cooley Coal Company on East Washington Avenue, and a boat named the Ultima.

Language: English

URL to cite for this finding aid: http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/wiarchives.uw-whs-ph03280

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Acquisition Information

Presented by Dorothy Jane Cooley, 1968; and R.L. Fredrickson, 1985.

Processing Information

Processed by David Benjamin, 1996.

PH 3280	Charles F. Cooley residence, 1251 Rutledge Street, Madison, Wisconsin
Item   1	Exterior, Cooley family? standing in front of residence, circa 1900
Item   2	Exterior
Item   3	Side yard, Charles F. Cooley? seated on lawn
Item   4	Rear elevation, winter. Cooley family? standing in backyard Physical Description: Cyanotype
Item   5	Exterior in winter. Cooley? family in front yard Physical Description: Cyanotype
Item   6	Cooley family? on front porch, winter Physical Description: Cyanotype
Item   7	Cooley family? in yard, winter Physical Description: Cyanotype
Item   8-9	Living room
Item   10-11	Lawn and garden
Item   12	Side and back yard
Item   13	Winter scene Physical Description: Cyanotype
Item   14	Red barn made into grandparents' residence in backyard
Item   15	Garden and barn in backyard
Item   16	Charles F. Cooley in horse drawn buggy on Morrison Street at Baldwin [Street]
Item   17	Charles F. Cooley
Item   18	Mennie Cooley, sister of Charles F. Cooley Note: Photographer: DeLonge Studio, Madison, Wisconsin.
Item   19	Alexander Warren Cooley
Item   20	C.F. Cooley Coal Company, 800 block E. Washington Avenue, [Madison, Wisconsin]
Item   21	Boat named Ultima
PH 4136	Informal photographs of the Cooley family and friends, circa 1900 to 1970 Note: Primarily posed exterior views in Madison, Wisconsin, and studio portraits, some on loose sheets from an album.
PH 4136 (3)	Oversize loose album sheets