Overview
The papers of Edith Cohoe Kirk include biographical information; diaries from 1955-2005 documenting Kirk's daily life as well as her travels; published writings by Kirk, mostly concerning the education needs of visually impaired children; Kirk's passports; photographs of Kirk and her family; and other documents.
Dates
- Creation: 1911-2009
Creator
- Kirk, Edith Cohoe (Person)
Language of Materials
Materials in English.
Access Restrictions:
Access. Collection is open for research.
Conditions Governing Use
Copyright. Copyright in the papers created by Edith Cohoe Kirk is held by the President and Fellows of Harvard College for the Schlesinger Library. Copyright in other papers in the collection may be held by their authors, or the authors' heirs or assigns.
Copying. Papers may be copied in accordance with the library's usual procedures.
Extent
1.67 linear feet ((4 file boxes) plus 1 folio folder, 1 photograph folder)The papers of Edith Cohoe Kirk include biographical information; diaries from 1955-2005 documenting Kirk's daily life as well as her travels; published writings by Kirk, mostly concerning the education needs of visually impaired children; Kirk's passports; photographs of Kirk and her family; and other documents. Most of the photographs in this collection are or will be digitized and available online.
BIOGRAPHY
Special education teacher Edith Cohoe Kirk (later Crawford) was born in 1910 in Winnipeg, Canada, the daughter of Martha Jane Kelly and Horace Greeley Cohoe. Her father was a carpenter and head of the local union. In 1917 the family moved to Michigan where she graduated from the College of the City of Detroit (1931), and the University of Michigan (MS 1936). She later earned an EdD in special education from Wayne State University (1965). Kirk served for 24 years as supervisor of the Program for the Blind and Partially Seeing in the Detroit public schools, and in the late 1960s she began teaching part time at Wayne State and Western Michigan universities, retiring in 1980. An amateur naturalist, she traveled widely, including two trips to Africa in 1958 and 1972. In 1963 she married Lester K. Kirk, an insurance executive who died in 1970. Her second marriage was in 1981 to Reverend Robert E. Crawford; they retired to California where he died in 1993. Kirk died in 2009.
Physical Location
Collection stored off site: researchers must request access 36 hours before use.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Accession numbers: 2011-M173, 2022-M38
The papers of Edith Cohoe Kirk were given to the Schlesinger Library by her step-daughter, Laura Hofer in September 2011 and February 2022.
Processing Information
Processed: June 2022
By: Johanna Carll
The Schlesinger Library attempts to provide a basic level of preservation and access for all collections, and does more extensive processing of higher priority collections as time and resources permit. Finding aids may be updated periodically to account for new acquisitions to the collection and/or revisions in arrangement and description.
Creator
- Kirk, Edith Cohoe (Person)
- Author
- Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America
- Language of description
- eng
- Sponsor
- Processing of this collection was made possible by the Alice Jeannette Ward Fund.
- EAD ID
- sch02153
Repository Details
Part of the Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute Repository
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