Papers of Lorraine Rowan Cooper, 1936-1983

The scrapbooks of Lorraine Rowan Cooper were microfilmed because of their fragility. Items such as correspondence, programs, and most photographs, were preserved and are available to researchers. The clippings are available only on microfilm. Two oversized folders of clippings were also microfilmed.

Scrapbook pages were numbered by the processor to aid the microfilmer, the proofreader, and the researcher.

Information added by the processor, such as page numbers or dates, is enclosed in square brackets.

The film was proofread by the processor and corrections made where necessary. These corrections may disrupt the sequence of frame numbers. Although care was taken to insure that the material be as legible as possible, the condition of some of the volumes and items made microfilming very difficult. For instance: 1. The paper was brittle. In some of the scrapbooks pages were so tightly bound that they could not be fully opened. 2. Some photographs were faded, some were out of focus, and others were in color. 3. There were few captions and many of these were smeared or faded. 4. Some clippings overlapped, and many articles were folded and creased. 5. Some photocopies of clippings were faded. 6. In some cases pencil notations had faded.

In some cases there was writing on the backs of photographs which could not be read because of the way the photograph was affixed to a scrapbook page. Whenever a caption was visible a transcription was provided by the processor.

All photographs in the scrapbooks were microfilmed. Prints of some are available in the photograph folders of the collection (#28-47).

Many pages had to be filmed more than once for one or both of the following reasons: 1. Folded and/or multiple-paged items, such as Christmas cards, clippings, or programs. 2. Postcards or photographs that were hinged to make the text on the reverse side accessible.

Loose items that obviously belonged where they were found were filmed there. Other loose items were filmed at the end of the volume in which they were found.

In many cases, enclosures referred to in letters were missing.

Multiple-page items that are readily available elsewhere (e.g., Congressional Record, government publications, and speeches that are part of the public record) were not filmed in their entirety, but only the pages needed to establish name and date of publication. In the case of programs or magazines containing material about the Coopers, the pages containing this material were filmed as well. Annotated items, however, were filmed in their entirety. In all cases where filming was not complete, a target to this effect has been affixed to the item.