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Cooper-Richardson family photographs
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Held at: Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College [Contact Us]500 College Avenue, Swarthmore, Pennsylvania 19081
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The Cooper family were Quakers of New Jersey and Pennsylvania, attending meetings in the Woodbury and Byberry areas. Materials in this collection focus on the children of William E. and Elizabeth Roberts Cooper, their spouses and children. William Evans Cooper (1812-1856) married Elizabeth Matlack Roberts (1815-1902) at Woodbury Monthly Meeting in Gloucester County, N.J., in 1836. They had 8 children: Annie who married Ezra Lippincott, Sarah, Mary Kaighn who married Nathaniel Richardson, Elizabeth Roberts, Joseph Morgan, Lucy who married Elisha Hunt Walker, William Alfred who married Mary Bagg, and Henry R. Cooper who married Jessie Bagg. Sarah and Anna C. Richardson, daughters of Mary K. and Nathaniel Richardson, were both teachers and active Friends. Their father was an acknowledged minister.
This collection is primarily made up of black and white photographs, alongside a few colored photos. The photos are of various members of the Cooper family, along with photos of family homes. There is a bound d album of cartes de visite of family members, a few sketches, and some black and white loose photographs. The loose photographs, though primarily of individual members of the Cooper family, also capture a family reunion and the New Jersey meeting house. Of special interest are sketches of famous authors such as William Bryant and Henry W. Longfellow.
The collection was given by Caroline Dwight Bain, descendant of the Cooper family through Henry R. and Jessie (Bagg) Cooper: 1987, 2006.004, 2009.018. Part of the Cooper-Richardson Family Papers, RG5/032.
In 1987 photographs removed from the collection were placed in Individual Portraits and meeting house files. The album was placed in PA 48 and pamphlets in FHL reference. In 2013, photographs were removed to PA 118 with a separate inventory.
In 2019, PA 48 (album and loose photographs) was consolidated into PA 118, as was PA 18 (reunion album).
This collection was removed from the Cooper-Richardson Family Papers, RG5/032.
People
- Cooper, Sarah, 1774-1848
- Cooper family
- Cooper, William, 1770-1850
- Richardson, Mary K. (Mary Kaighn), 1841-1912
- Richardson, Elizabeth C., 1863-1947
- Richardson family
Subject
- Publisher
- Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
- Finding Aid Author
- Zoe Peyton Jones
- Finding Aid Date
- 2019
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This collection is available for research use.
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Collection Inventory
Photographs by William Cooper, Color photographs by Stanley Cooper, 1848, 1850, 1873, 1895, 1915, 1927, 1973, n.d.
Subjects: Henry R. Cooper; Bill or Robert Walker; Elizabeth M. Cooper; William Evans Cooper; Mary Cooper Richardson; Sarah Morgan Cooper; William Cooper; Pyne Poynt house built in 1711 by Joseph Cooper and Lydia Riggs (now property of City of Camden); Ann Roberts, "Byberry" (Torresdale, PA, home of Nathaniel Richardson); Bicentennial of Friends Meeting House of Woodbury, NJ; house built 1699; [?] house in Woodbury; [? same name as above – Whital?] house in Redbank; Griffith Morgan house; 1973 Philadelphia Sunday Bulletin clipping about Cooper home in Camden; 1973 "The Griffith Morgan House History" printed by Griffith Morgan Committee
Subjects: Elizabeth Morgan Cooper; Margaret Cooper Dwight; Mary B. Cooper; Charles Bagg Cooper; James Cooper; Joseph Morgan Cooper; Harriet (Miller) Cooper; Jessie BaggCooper; Morgan Cooper; Henry R. Cooper; Henry Dwight; Caroline B. Dwight; Ransford Cooper; Morgan Cooper; Mrs. Stanley Bagg; "Nursie
Alberton"; Bessie Richardson; William Walker; Marjorie Hardy; Clara F. Pierce; Talbot Walker Pierce; Katharine Croasdale Trump; Hanah T. Croasdale; Marjorie Trump; Talbot Walker and immediate family; Pat Walker and family.
Dates: 1891-1892, 1894, 1903, 1905, 1908, 1913, 1921, 1927, 1954-1957, 1976.
Subject: John and Eliza Freeman (African-American couple)
Subjects: Elizabeth R. Cooper; family portrait: Anna Richardson, William Cooper Walker, Lucy Cooper Walker, William A. Cooper, Mary [Kaighe?] Richardson, Mary R. Cooper, John Cooper, Annie C. Lippincott, Stanley B. Cooper, Nathaniel Richardson, Elizabeth Cooper Richardson, Ezra Lippincott, William E. Cooper, and Sarah Cooper; photo of children: [Janis?] Cooper, Elizabeth M. Cooper, William Cooper, Amelia Cooper; Elizabeth M. Cooper and William E. Cooper as children; passport-size photos of members of Cooper family: Mary, Sarah, Annie, Henry, William A., Lucy, Joseph, Elizabeth, Elizabeth R., William
Taken by William A. Cooper
Taken by Henry R. Cooper
Photographs of family members (unidentified), Woodbury meetinghouse, and surroundings.