FINDING AID AVAILABLE
William Bourke Cockran papers
- Title
- William Bourke Cockran papers, 1881-1924.
- Author
Collection information
Finding aid
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Details
- Additional authors
- Description
- 17.5 linear feet (42 boxes)
- Summary
- The collection consists of correspondence, addresses and speeches, legal papers, and personal and miscellaneous papers, including scrapbooks, newsclippings and memorabilia, related to Cockran's activities as lawyer, orator, politician, Irish activist, and congressman.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Scrapbooks.
- Call number
- MssCol 582
- Access (note)
- Restricted access;
- Microfilm of Winston Churchill correspondence must be used in lieu of originals.
- Additional formats (note)
- available on microfilm;
- Source (note)
- Cockran, Anne Ide (Mrs. William Bourke)
- Biography (note)
- William Bourke Cockran (1854-1923) was an Irish-born American lawyer, orator and politician who was elected to Congress from New York in 1886, 1890, 1892 and 1920. He was an anti-imperialist and advocate for Irish causes.
- Processing action (note)
- Cataloged
- Author
- Cockran, William Bourke, 1854-1923.
- Title
- William Bourke Cockran papers, 1881-1924.
- Additional formats
- Correspondence with Winston Churchill, 1895-1906, available on microfilm; New York Public Library. *ZL-353.
- Restricted access
- Restricted access; Manuscripts and Archives Division; Permit must be requested at the division indicated.
- Access
- Microfilm of Winston Churchill correspondence must be used in lieu of originals.
- Biography
- William Bourke Cockran (1854-1923) was an Irish-born American lawyer, orator and politician who was elected to Congress from New York in 1886, 1890, 1892 and 1920. He was an anti-imperialist and advocate for Irish causes.
- Finding aids
- Finding aid available in repository and on internet. http://digilib.nypl.org/dynaweb/ead/human/msscockr/
- Connect to:
- Occupation
- Legislators United States.
- Lawyers.
- Added author
- Churchill, Winston, 1874-1965.
- Frewen, Moreton, 1853-1924.
- Marbury, Elisabeth, 1856-1933.
- Plunkett, Horace Curzon, Sir, 1854-1932.
- Smith, Goldwin, 1823-1918.
- LCCN
- ms 68001128
- Research call number
- MssCol 582