J. Fred Coots Papers, 1912-1980

Container Title
Series: Photographs and Memorabilia
Package   1
Laminated photograph of J. Fred Coots
Package   2
Scrapbook
Scope and Content Note: A collection of clippings, providing a detailed picture of Coots's career. No attempt has been made to put the clippings in chronological or subject order.
Package   3
Laminated photograph of ASCAP board , [1923]
Scope and Content Note: At the piano, Victor Herbert; background, left to right: Gustave Kerker, Raymond Hubbell, Harry Tierney, Louis A. Hirsch, Rudolf Friml, Robert Hood Bowers, Sylvio Hein, A. Baldwin Sloane, Irving Berlin. The photograph is reproduced in Stanley Green, The World of Musical Comedy (1962), from which the date and caption.
Package   4
Souvenir program of testimonial dinner for Gene Buck, autographed by W.C. Handy, Frank Hague, Jim Farley, J. Edgar Hoover, Herbert O. Hoover, Deems Taylor, William Gaxton, and Harry Hirschfield
Package   5
Unmounted photographs
Scope and Content Note: Including, among others, Rubinoff and his violin; Irene Sordoni; Cab Calloway; J. Fred Coots; William Gaxton; Eddie Dowling; Fay Dooley [Mrs. Eddie Dowling]; Helen Kane.
Package   6
Portrait of J. Fred Coots, pastel, unsigned [circa 1923?]