Series 3: Administrative Files, 1935 - circa 1980, inclusive
Scope and Contents
Series 3: Administrative Files, 1935 - circa 1980, includes licenses, teaching certificates, and other paperwork regarding Lillian Cooper's teaching career, courses she took, and conferences she attended; resumes; a handwritten will from 1969; and immigration documents related to William Hirschel Eichhorn whose relationship to Lillian Cooper is unknown. The bulk of this series consists of correspondence and paperwork related to the Holly Point Project, a collaboration between Lillian Cooper and Herman Kobbé to build a children's development center on their land around Lake Murray, South Carolina including a boarding school, programs for parents, and a camp for city children. Related to these files are files regarding Cooper and Kobbé's break-up around 1948.
Arrangement
This series is arranged chronologically.
[Board of Education of the City of New York elementary school diploma], 1921
Box: OS-32, Folder: 5 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
[Eastern District High School and University of the State of New York diplomas], 1925
Box: OS-32, Folder: 4 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
[Hunter College diploma], 1930
Box: OS-32, Folder: 3 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
209 [Washington Park] studio, circa 1936, inclusive
Box: 19, Folder: 1 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
[Civil Service Commission service rating], 1939-1940, inclusive
Box: 19, Folder: 2 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
[Letter to Herman Kobbé], 1940
Box: 19, Folder: 3 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Drawings, circa 1940, inclusive
Box: 19, Folder: 4 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
[William Hirschel Eichhorn citizenship documents], 1946-1957, inclusive
Box: 21, Folder: 17 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
HK + HPP [Herman Kobbé and Holly Point Project], 1935-1950, inclusive
Box: 19, Folder: 5 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
[Holly Point Project summary], 1947
Box: 19, Folder: 6 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
HK [Herman Kobbé] farm business, 1943-1944, inclusive
Box: 19, Folder: 7 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
The Farm, 1944-1945, inclusive
Box: 19, Folder: 8 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
HK [Herman Kobbé] farm business, 1944-1951, inclusive
Box: 19, Folder: 9 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Camp [Holly Point Project], 1947
Box: 19, Folder: 10 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
HK [Herman Kobbé] Legal, 1948
Box: 19, Folder: 11 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Applications for writing fellowship, 1948-1949, inclusive
Box: 19, Folder: 12 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
HK and HPP [Herman Kobbé and Holly Point Project], 1945-1952, inclusive
Box: 19, Folder: 13-19 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
[Holly Point Project planning documents], 1947-1948, inclusive
Box: 19, Folder: 20-25 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Box: 20, Folder: 1 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
HK [Herman Kobbé] Project, 1948
Box: 20, Folder: 2 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Laney - Project [Laney Stephens, Holly Point Project], 1948
Box: 20, Folder: 3 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Stephens [Laney Stephens, Holly Point Project], 1926-1948, inclusive
Box: 20, Folder: 4-6 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
HK [Herman Kobbé] Project, 1947-1948, inclusive
Box: 20, Folder: 7 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Staff, 1948
Box: 20, Folder: 8 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Board, 1948
Box: 20, Folder: 9 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Leaflet, etc., circa 1948, inclusive
Box: 20, Folder: 10 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
[Holly Point Project], 1949-1951, inclusive
Box: 20, Folder: 11 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Holly Point Project stationery, circa 1945, inclusive
Box: 20, Folder: 12 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
HPP [Holly Point Project], 1948
Box: 20, Folder: 13 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
HK [Herman Kobbé], 1947-1948, inclusive
Box: 20, Folder: 14 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
[Notes regarding Herman Kobbé], 1947-1948, inclusive
Box: 20, Folder: 15 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
HK [Herman Kobbé], 1948
Box: 20, Folder: 16-17 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
[Notes], circa 1948, inclusive
Box: 20, Folder: 18 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
HK [Herman Kobbé], 1949
Box: 20, Folder: 19 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
File HK [Herman Kobbé], 1937
Box: 20, Folder: 20 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
[Lists of Passengers, Siboney Ship], 1937-1938, inclusive
Box: 20, Folder: 21 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
File HK [Herman Kobbé], 1952- circa 1955, inclusive
Box: 20, Folder: 22-24 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
[Resume], 1947
Box: 20, Folder: 25 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Older resumes, 1947-1957, inclusive
Box: 20, Folder: 26 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
[Ben Cooper, Local Union No. 119 forty-year membership certificate], 1950
Box: OS-32, Folder: 8 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
[University of Florida catalog listing], 1955-1957, inclusive
Box: 21, Folder: 1 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
[The New York Teachers Guild membership correspondence], 1958
Box: 21, Folder: 2 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
[Expense book], 1962-1965, inclusive
Box: 21, Folder: 3 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
[Bread Loaf Conference correspondence], 1964
Box: 21, Folder: 4 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
[Teaching evaluations], 1959-1966, inclusive
Box: 21, Folder: 5 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Board of Examiners [Board of Education teaching license], 1966
Box: 21, Folder: 6 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
[New York City Teachers Retirement System correspondence], 1967
Box: 21, Folder: 7 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
[Teaching observation report comments], 1968
Box: 21, Folder: 8 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
[Handwritten will], 1969
Box: 21, Folder: 9 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
[Università Italiana per stranieri certificate], 1971
Box: OS-32, Folder: 2 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
[Writers' Summer School correspondence], 1975
Box: 21, Folder: 10 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Bread Loaf [Writers' Conference], 1976-1977, inclusive
Box: 21, Folder: 11 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
[Hunter College class registrations and transcripts], 1977-1979, inclusive
Box: 21, Folder: 12 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
[Rabbi Rudin, Herzl Institute lecture notes], 1978
Box: 21, Folder: 13 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
[Housing complaint], circa 1980, inclusive
Box: 21, Folder: 14 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
[The National Council on Aging booklet], circa 1980, inclusive
Box: 21, Folder: 15 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Licenses [and teaching certificates], 1930-1972, inclusive
Box: 21, Folder: 16 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Box: OS-32, Folder: 9 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
