Lucy Kramer Cohen papers 1902-2005

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Lucy Kramer Cohen papers 1902-2005

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The Lucy Kramer Cohen papers document her decades-long career in the federal government, including her contributions to The Handbook of Federal Indian Law and her work on the staff of Representative Helen Gahagan Douglas and for the War Labor Board and the Public Health Service, as well as her various professional activities and affiliations as an anthropologist and later as an artist, including her work with the artist and sculptor Pietro Lazzari. The collection consists largely of professional correspondence and memoranda, reports and analyses for various government agencies and projects, conference proceedings, printed material stemming from Kramer Cohen's government employment and organizational affiliations, manuscripts for Felix S. Cohen's The Legal Conscience, which she edited, and various employment papers, including applications, wage records, CV drafts, and employer recommendations. Also found are personal and family papers, which include correspondence between and received by Kramer Cohen and Felix S. Cohen, clippings of obituaries, material relating to the memorial service for Felix S. Cohen, legal and financial documents relating to Kramer Cohen's father's estate and affairs, and property records. Other papers of Felix S. Cohen include research material, clippings, and correspondence relating to Puerto Rico and the Spanish Civil War.

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