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BOX 1-9 | Personal File, 1854-2011 | ||||||||||||
The Personal File series primarily contains
biographical material that provides an overview of Free’s life and career. This is
largely reflected in transcripts of detailed oral history interviews with Free
regarding her animal advocacy efforts, experiences as a female journalist in the
1940s, and work in China with the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation
Administration. Other biographical material includes awards, biographical
sketches, articles about Free, résumés, and files related to her birth, marriage,
and death. Of particular interest in the series is a file of notes and
correspondence related to sessions with psychologist Elaine W. Cotlove in which
Free discusses and analyzes her romantic relationships with women in the 1930s and
1940s. The series also contains material related to Free's family, mostly the
papers of her mother, Emily Blake Cottrell, including correspondence, notebooks,
and diaries. Free’s correspondence with her mother, however, is maintained
primarily in the Correspondence series. While
the series contains biographical and autobiographical material, similar files can
be found throughout other series in the collection, mostly in Free's writings,
diaries, and notebooks. Material types include résumés, transcripts, awards, certificates, clippings, business cards, correspondence, recipes, and notes. Some textual material is in digital format. The file structure of the digital content maintained as received. |
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Arranged alphabetically by material type or subject. | |||||||||||||
BOX 1 | Ann Cottrell Free Animal Reporting Award, National Press Club, 2005-2006 | ||||||||||||
BOX 1 | Articles and writings mentioning Free, 1925-2008, undated | ||||||||||||
(2 folders) | |||||||||||||
BOX 1 | Autobiographical writings, 1939-2002, undated | ||||||||||||
BOX 1 | Awards | ||||||||||||
BOX 1 | Dodd Mead Boys' Life Writing Award, Forever the Wild Mare, 1963-1964 | ||||||||||||
BOX 1 | Miscellany, 1936, 1963-2003 | ||||||||||||
BOX 1 | Schweitzer Medal, Animal Welfare Institute, 1963-1965 | ||||||||||||
BOX 1 | Virginia Communications Hall of Fame, 1993-2000 | ||||||||||||
BOX 1 | Biographical sketches, 1943-2005, undated | ||||||||||||
BOX 2 | Biographical sketches, 1943-2005, undated | ||||||||||||
(2 folders) | |||||||||||||
BOX 2 | Birth, 1916 | ||||||||||||
BOX 2 | Blake, Emma Walters (grandmother), 1944, 1950 | ||||||||||||
BOX 2 | Business cards, circa 1940s-circa 1990s | ||||||||||||
BOX 2 | Contacts, circa 1940s-circa 1990s | ||||||||||||
BOX 2 | Cotlove, Elaine W., psychiatrist, notes and letters, 1975-1976 | ||||||||||||
BOX 2 | Cottrell, Emily Blake (mother) | ||||||||||||
BOX 2 | Address book, undated | ||||||||||||
BOX 2 | Correspondence, 1923, 1931-1972, undated | ||||||||||||
(2 folders) | |||||||||||||
BOX 3 | Correspondence, 1923, 1931-1972, undated | ||||||||||||
BOX 3 | Death, 1972 | ||||||||||||
BOX 3 | Financial notes, 1965-1971 | ||||||||||||
(2 folders) | |||||||||||||
BOX 3 | Miscellany, 1925-1971, undated | ||||||||||||
BOX 3 | Notebooks and diaries, 1941, 1971, undated | ||||||||||||
BOX 4 | Notebooks and diaries, 1941, 1971, undated | ||||||||||||
(2 folders) | |||||||||||||
BOX 4 | Cottrell, Emily Blake, and Emmett D. Cottrell, (parents), 1924-1967 | ||||||||||||
(2 folders) | |||||||||||||
BOX 4 | Death | ||||||||||||
BOX 4 | Condolences, 2004-2005 | ||||||||||||
(3 folders) | |||||||||||||
BOX 5 | Donations, 2004-2005 | ||||||||||||
BOX 5 | Memorial plaque, 2005 | ||||||||||||
BOX 5 | Memorial service, National Press Club, Washington, D.C., 2004, Dec. 4 | ||||||||||||
(2 folders) | |||||||||||||
BOX 5 | Miscellany, 1990, 2004 | ||||||||||||
BOX 5 | Obituaries and tributes, 2004-2005 | ||||||||||||
(2 folders) | |||||||||||||
BOX 5 | Education, 1923-1940, 1950-1954, 1963, 1973, 1983, 1998 See also OV 1 and OV 2, same heading | ||||||||||||
(2 folders) | |||||||||||||
BOX 5 | Family, miscellany, 1903, 1983, 1997, 2002, undated | ||||||||||||
BOX 6 | Free, James (husband), memorial service, 1996, Apr. 21 | ||||||||||||
BOX 6 | Genealogy, 1983 | ||||||||||||
BOX 6 | Identification and membership cards, 1933-2000 | ||||||||||||
BOX 6 | Johnson, Mary M., and James West, wedding book, 1854-1857 | ||||||||||||
BOX 6 | Marriage to James Free, 1950 | ||||||||||||
BOX 6 | Mementos | ||||||||||||
BOX 6 | Dance cards, circa 1930s | ||||||||||||
BOX 6 | Foreign currency, 1912-1964 | ||||||||||||
BOX 6 | Menus, 1920, 1944-1946 | ||||||||||||
BOX 6 | Playbills and ticket stubs, circa 1940s, 1975, undated | ||||||||||||
BOX 6 | United States presidential campaign buttons, circa 1952-1956, 1968 | ||||||||||||
BOX 6 | Miscellany, 1942-1943, 1981, 2008, undated | ||||||||||||
BOX 6 | Name plates, undated | ||||||||||||
BOX 6 | Oral history transcripts | ||||||||||||
BOX 6 | China, 1997 | ||||||||||||
BOX 6 | "Covering World War II Washington," 1994 | ||||||||||||
BOX 6 | National Press Club, Washington, D.C., 1992, 1998, 2004-2007 | ||||||||||||
BOX 7 | "Personal Oral History of Ann Cottrell Free" conducted by Elissa Blake Free and Bill Nooter, 1994-2004, 2011 | ||||||||||||
(3 folders) | |||||||||||||
DF | "Personal Oral History of Ann Cottrell Free" conducted by Elissa Blake Free and Bill Nooter, digital copy, 2004 | ||||||||||||
Digital ID: mss86321_200_056 | |||||||||||||
BOX 7 | Proposal, Montgomery College, Rockville, Md., 1996 | ||||||||||||
BOX 7 | Recording Animal Advocacy (organization) | ||||||||||||
BOX 7 | Anchel, Marjorie, oral history, 1997 | ||||||||||||
BOX 7 | Free, Ann Cottrell, oral history | ||||||||||||
BOX 7 | Full transcript, 2001 | ||||||||||||
DF | Full transcript, digital copy, 2003 | ||||||||||||
Digital ID: mss86321_200_057 | |||||||||||||
BOX 8 | Lee, Carmen, correspondence, 1999-2003 | ||||||||||||
BOX 8 | Miscellany, 1998-2003 | ||||||||||||
BOX 8 | Segments I-IV, 1999-2000 | ||||||||||||
(4 folders) | |||||||||||||
BOX 8 | Supplemental material, 1996-2001 | ||||||||||||
(2 folders) | |||||||||||||
BOX 9 | "Telling Their Story is All I Can Do," 1999-2000 | ||||||||||||
BOX 9 | Orlans, F. Barbara, oral history, 2001-2002 | ||||||||||||
BOX 8 | Thurston, Ethel, oral history, 2001 | ||||||||||||
BOX 9 | Washington Press Club Foundation, 1989 | ||||||||||||
BOX 9 | Press passes, 1945-1983, undated | ||||||||||||
BOX 9 | Recipes, 1893, 1938, 1950s-1960s | ||||||||||||
BOX 9 | Résumés, circa 1941-circa 1990 | ||||||||||||
BOX OV 1 | Travel satchel, circa 1940s See OV 1, same heading | ||||||||||||
BOX 9 | Travel documents, 1948-1949, undated | ||||||||||||
BOX 9 | War ration books, 1942-1943 | ||||||||||||
BOX 9-25 | Correspondence, 1920-2005 | ||||||||||||
The Correspondence series comprises personal
and professional correspondence from Free's family, friends, and colleagues, the
bulk of which spans from 1937 to 1997. The correspondence is wide-ranging,
touching on many aspects of Free’s life and career. Details of her travels in the
1940s are reflected within the series in letters to Emily Blake Cottrell and John
Oudine, in a subject file on India, and in a compilation of letters to and from
her travel companion, Verna Mae Feuerhelm Cody. Other files of note include
letters related to Free’s romantic relationships with Margaret Johnson, Claude
James, and Isabelle Ziegler. A file of “early job letters” reflects Free’s
experiences with sexism in the journalism profession from the 1930s to 1950s. The
series does not represent the entirety of correspondence in the collection as
letters are filed throughout other series. Researchers are encouraged to consult
the Subject File series for correspondence related to
specific subjects. Material types include letters, memoranda, invitations, greeting cards, telegrams, faxes, postcards, photographs, and writings. |
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Arranged into a chronological file, a name file, and a subject file. | |||||||||||||
BOX 9 | Chronological file, 1931-1933 | ||||||||||||
BOX 10 | Chronological file, 1934-1941 | ||||||||||||
(8 folders) | |||||||||||||
BOX 11 | Chronological file, 1942-1962 | ||||||||||||
(11 folders) | |||||||||||||
BOX 12 | Chronological file, 1963-1975 | ||||||||||||
(9 folders) | |||||||||||||
BOX 13 | Chronological file, 1976-1985 | ||||||||||||
(9 folders) | |||||||||||||
BOX 14 | Chronological file, 1986-1993 | ||||||||||||
(8 folders) | |||||||||||||
BOX 15 | Chronological file, 1994-2005, undated | ||||||||||||
(7 folders) | |||||||||||||
BOX 16 | Chronological file, undated | ||||||||||||
(6 folders) | |||||||||||||
BOX 16 | Name file | ||||||||||||
BOX 16 | Allen, Thelma, 1963-1996 | ||||||||||||
BOX 17 | Baničević, Marija, 1948-1949, undated | ||||||||||||
BOX 17 | Black, Hugo, 1966-1971 | ||||||||||||
BOX 17 | Bredow, Fran; Yap, Micronesia, 1988-1989 | ||||||||||||
BOX 17 | Bush, George, 1984 | ||||||||||||
BOX 17 | Clinton, Hillary Rodham, 1995 | ||||||||||||
BOX 17 | Cody, Verna Mae Feuerhelm, 1946-1961, 1989 | ||||||||||||
(3 folders) | |||||||||||||
BOX 17 | Cottrell, Emily Blake, and Emmett D. Cottrell, (parents), circa 1920s-1942 | ||||||||||||
(4 folders) | |||||||||||||
BOX 18 | Cottrell, Emily Blake, and Emmett D. Cottrell, (parents), 1943-1959 | ||||||||||||
(12 folders) | |||||||||||||
BOX 19 | Cottrell, Emily Blake, and Emmett D. Cottrell, (parents), 1961-1979, undated | ||||||||||||
(3 folders) | |||||||||||||
BOX 19 | Douglas, William O., 1954 | ||||||||||||
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