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Jewel Plummer Cobb photograph collection

Title: Jewel Plummer Cobb photograph collection [graphic].
Author: Cobb, Jewel Plummer, 1924-
Publication: [1955?]-1985.

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p1tc Cobb, Jewel Plummer, 1924- Jewel Plummer Cobb papers, 1944-1990 (CStRLIN)NYPW088000011-A

Description

96 items (.3 lin. ft., 1 box); 28 x 36 cm. and smaller.
47 photographic prints : silver gelatin, b&w ;
35 photographic prints : silver gelatin, b&w ;
5 photographic prints : col. ;
7 instant camera photographic prints : b&w ;
2 contact sheets : col. ;

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Genre/Form

Portrait photographs – 1950-1989.
Group portraits – 1950-1989.
Gelatin silver prints – 1950-1989.
Dye coupler prints – 1980-1989.
Instant camera photographs – 1970-1979.

Note

Title devised by cataloger.
Some photographs bear photographer or photography studio handstamps; one photograph has photographer's address label on verso; one item, which is matted, has photography studio name printed on matte. Some photographs have handwritten notations on verso; several photographs have printed captions attached to verso; some items have captions printed on recto; one photograph has cropping and retouching marks.

Biography (note)

Jewel Plummer Cobb, educator and cancer researcher, was born in Chicago in 1924.

Linking Entry (note)

Forms part of: Jewel Plummer Cobb Papers, 1944-1990.

Call Number

Sc Photo Jewel Plummer Cobb Collection

OCLC

NYPG00-F233

Author

Cobb, Jewel Plummer, 1924-

Title

Jewel Plummer Cobb photograph collection [graphic].

Imprint

[1955?]-1985.

Summary

The Jewel Plummer Cobb Photograph Collection depicts some aspects of her career as an educator, biologist and college administrator from the mid-1950s to 1985. The collection includes individual and group portraits of Cobb; candid and group portraits of friends and colleagues; views of conferences, receptions and social gatherings; and views of classroom lectures and college science laboratories. The collection lacks views of Cobb's personal life.

The collection depicts Cobb in group portraits with an unidentified lab assistant or researcher, probably during her professorship at New York University (ca. 1955-1960); conducting a laboratory experiment at Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville, New York (1969); in a studio portrait as Dean at Connecticut College, New London, Connecticut (1973); in group portraits with fellow members of the National Science Board (1975, 1978); in candid shots at various Connecticut College functions during 1976, which include U.S. Senator Edward Kennedy of Massachusetts, Connecticut Secretary of State Gloria Schaffer and author Caroline Bird; in a candid portrait, addressing an unidentified event, when she was Dean at Douglass College, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey (ca. 1980); in group portraits and views of functions at California State University, Fullerton during the early 1980s, including her investiture as President at CSU Fullerton (1983); in a snapshot view of her giving a classroom lecture (1985); and in a group of contact print portraits (1985).

The collection includes a group of candid shots and snapshots depicting Cobb, her staff and researchers from her research laboratory at Connecticut College (1975); and a group of candid portraits and views from a reception given to honor Cobb's appointment as CSU Fullerton President in 1981, which was compiled in a photo album by the University's Black Faculty and Staff Association. Cobb is also depicted in group portraits from the Gordon Research Conference at Colby Junior College, New London, New Hampshire (1959); as Dean of Douglass College at the Class of 1930 fiftieth anniversary class reunion (1980); and the W.K. Kellogg Foundation gathering at Spring Hill, [Minnesota?] (1985). Also shown are views of delegates attending the VIII International Cancer Congress held in Moscow, the Soviet Union (1962).

Biography

Jewel Plummer Cobb, educator and cancer researcher, was born in Chicago in 1924. She received her bachelor's degree in biology from Talladega (Alabama) College (1944), and her master's (1947) and doctoral (1950) degrees, both in cell physiology, from New York University. Her educational career included professorships at NYU (1955-1960) and Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville, New York (1960-1969); appointments as professor and dean at both Connecticut College, New London, Connecticut (1969-1976) and Douglass College, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey (1976-1981); and university president at California State University, Fullerton (1981-1990). She is currently a California State University trustee professor at CSU Los Angeles. Cobb is also known for her research into cell morphology and her support for the advancement of women and minorities in the sciences.

Linking Entry

Forms part of: Jewel Plummer Cobb Papers, 1944-1990.

Local Note

Sc MG 298

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p1tc Cobb, Jewel Plummer, 1924- Jewel Plummer Cobb papers, 1944-1990 (CStRLIN)NYPW088000011-A

Research Call Number

Sc Photo Jewel Plummer Cobb Collection

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