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Cora Parker collection

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS 1464

Overview

This collection includes pictures, letters and a postcard written from Cora Parker, a written note from the daughter of Cora Parker's close friend Marion Barnes LeSuer Fincham, a family photograph album of what is assumed to be the Aenchbacher family, two newspaper clippings of socialite Anna Gould, and a painting of someone who is assumed to be Anna Gould.

Dates

  • Creation: approximately 1860-1940

Creator

Conditions Governing Access

No access restrictions.

Conditions Governing Use

Spencer Library staff may determine use restrictions dependent on the physical condition of manuscript materials.

Biography of Cora Parker

Cora Parker was an artist born in 1859 in Kentucky. She studied at the Cincinnati Art School and at the Julian Academy in Paris. She was head of the teaching staff at the University of Nebraska and Dean of the Arts at the University of Kansas. As a painter she specialized in flower scenes and gardens. In the 1930s, Parker moved to Coral Gables, Florida and stayed there until her death in 1944 at the age of 84.

Extent

.5 Linear Feet (1 document case + 1 oversize folder)

Language of Materials

English

Physical Location

RH MS 1464

Physical Location

RH MS-P 1464(f)

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Gift, Cathy Songer, 2017.

Related Materials

Additional information about Cora Parker is available in University Archives scrapbooks at Spencer Research Library: SB/0 volume 1 page 39 (exhibiting paintings in 1909) and SB/41 volume 7 page 15 (regarding her death).

Source

Subject

Title
Guide to the Cora Parker Collection
Subtitle
Cora Parker collection
Author
Finding aid prepared by mah. Finding aid encoded by mah.
Date
9/20/18
Description rules
Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Language of description
Finding aid written in English.
Finding aid permalink
http://hdl.handle.net/10407/4573378878
Preferred citation
Cora Parker collection, RH MS 1464, Kenneth Spencer Research Library, University of Kansas

Repository Details

Part of the University of Kansas. Kenneth Spencer Research Library Repository

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