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Cooper, Jack L. -- (Jack Leroy) -- 1888-1970 (2)     x 1970s (2)     x Chicago History Museum (2)     x clear facets
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Jack L. Cooper papers

Scripts of radio programs, correspondence, contracts, appointment books (12 v.), and scrapbook of Jack Leroy Cooper, a Chicago pioneer in African American radio broadcasting. Includes Black dialect comedy and other program scripts by Cooper, mainly 1930s; scrapbook of clippings and handbills on Cooper's early theater and radio career, chiefly 1918-1931; correspondence, 1939-1988, primarily relative to Jack L. Cooper Radio Advertising

Dates: 1918-1988   |   Extent: 5 linear ft. (10 boxes, 1 scrapbook); sound recording (1975).
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Jack L. Cooper photograph collection

Visual materials pertaining to Jack Cooper, African American radio announcer in Chicago (1930s-50s) and his family and friends. Subjects include family gatherings (mostly snapshots), radio entertainers and vaudeville performers.

Dates: 1915-1970s, bulk 1960s-1970s   |   Extent: 215 photographic prints : b&w ; 8 x 10 in. or smaller.; 56 photographic prints : col. ; 8 x 10 in. or smaller.; 38 negatives : b&w ; 8 x 10 in. or smaller.; 14 negatives : col. ; 35 mm.; 1 folder of non-graphic material.
Archives: Chicago History Museum