Summary Information

Title: Cooley Family Photographs
Inclusive Dates: circa 1900-1970

Creator:

• Cooley, Dorothy Jane, collector

Call Number: PH 3280; PH 4136; PH 4136 (3)

Quantity: 21 photographs; plus additions of 161 photographs

Repository:

Wisconsin Historical Society, Division of Library, Archives, and Museum Collections

Archival Locations:

Wisconsin Historical Society (Map)

COLLECTION MAY BE STORED OFF-SITE: see catalog entry to request materials and for additional information.

Abstract:

This collection consists of photographs relating to Charles F. Cooley of Madison, Wisconsin. Cooley, a prominent Madison businessman known as “Cooley the Koal Man,” ran C.F. Cooley Coal Company from 1876 until his death in 1925. The majority of the images in the collection are of Cooley's Lake Monona residence, 1251 Rutledge Street, Madison. Also in the collection are images of Charles F. Cooley, his family, the C.F. Cooley Coal Company on East Washington Avenue, and a boat named the Ultima.

Language: English

URL to cite for this finding aid: http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/wiarchives.uw-whs-ph03280

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