William Skinner Cooper papers 1909-1989

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William Skinner Cooper papers 1909-1989

The collection consists of personal and professional papers of William Skinner Cooper, professor of botany at the University of Minnesota.

3 record boxes, 14 negative boxes, 2 oversize boxes; (16.5 linear feet)

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SNAC Resource ID: 6619324

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Mahler, Gustav, 1860-1911

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Gustav Mahler was a Romantic composer. Mahler displayed his musical gifts at an early age. For much of his life composing was necessarily a part-time activity while he earned his living as a conductor. Aside from early works such as a movement from a piano quartet composed when he was a student in Vienna, Mahler's works are generally designed for large orchestral forces, symphonic choruses and operatic soloists. ...

Ormandy, Eugene

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Epithet: conductor British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000699.0x0001db Conductor; Music Director of the Philadelphia Orchestra, 1938-1980. From the description of Oral history conducted by Herbert Kupferberg, October 1969. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 213481085 From the description of Oral history conducted by Herbert Kupferberg, October 1969. (University of Pennsyl...

Cooper, William Skinner, 1884-....

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Cooper was born on August 25, 1884 in Detroit, Michigan. He attended Detroit public schools and graduated in 1906 from Alma College. He obtained his Ph.D. degree from the University of Chicago in 1911. In 1915 Cooper joined the faculty at the University of Minnesota. Cooper made several scientific trips to Glacier Bay Alaska between 1916 and 1966. He is considered to be the father of Glacier Bay National Park. Cooper retired from the University of Minnesota in 1951 and moved to Boulder, Colorado...

Field, William O. (William Osgood), 1904-

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William Osgood Field was born in New York City on January 30, 1904. He earned a B.S. in geology from Harvard University in 1926 and traveled to Glacier Bay, Alaska, on his first scientific trip that same year. Field served on the staff of the American Geographical Society and served as a photographic officer for the U.S. Army during World War II. He was appointed head of the Department of Exploration and Field Research at the American Geographical Society in 1947. Field was appointed Director, W...

Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra, 1945, 1950

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Verbruggen, Henri

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Hubbard, John H. (John Hamal), 1945 or 1946-

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Hansell, J. J.

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Sibelius, Jean, 1865-1957

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Epithet: composer British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000613.0x0001c0 Composed originally for solo piano 1893. This orchestration 1979. From the description of Sonata für pianoforte, op. 12 / Jean Sibelius ; orchestrated [by] Albert B. Conkey. 1979. (Franklin & Marshall College). WorldCat record id: 41962755 Finnish composer. From the description of Autograph letter signed, dat...

Geographical Society

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Retzek, Henry

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Retzek earned his Harvard AM in 1931. From the description of The geomorphology of the Chilean desert : with a short chapter on the salts of the desert / by Henry Retzek. 1930. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 77075882 ...

Sardeson, Frederick W. (Frederick William), 1866-1958

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Frederick W. Sardeson was born on February 22, 1866 in Owego Mills, Wisconsin. He earned his B.S. in 1891 and M.S. in 1892 from the University of Minnesota. For the next two years, Sardeson was a instructor of paleontology at the University. In 1895, he attended the University of Freiburg, Germany and earned his Ph.D. Dr. Sardeson returned to the University of Minnesota in 1898 as instructor of paleontology and was appointed the rank of assistant professor in 1905. In 1914, Dr. Sardeson left the...

Oberhoffer, Emil, 1867-1933

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Graf, Herbert, 1903-

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Lindeman, Raymond, 1915-1942,

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Mitropoulos, Dimitri, 1896-1960

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Eble was an officer of the Bruckner Society of America, in New York City. Selden-Goth was a music scholar; she was an acquaintance of Mitropoulos and of Alma Mahler; Trudy Goth was apparently her daughter. Johnson was a music critic for the New York Post. From the description of Correspondence with Alma Mahler and Franz Werfel, 1941-1960. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 155863958 ...

Lawrence, Donald B. (Donald Buermann), 1911-1996

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Donald B. Lawrence was a faculty member in the Botany Department at the University of Minnesota. Lawrence's main area of research involved studies of vegetation development on new land surfaces following glacier recession, landslides, volcanic eruptions and earthquakes. Although he was a botanist, glacier related studies were his first love. Lawrence took over the Glacier Bay seedling plot study begun by William S. Cooper in 1916, and visited the plots every few years starting in 1941 and ending...

Geological society of America

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Alma College

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Ecological society of America

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Tang, Peisong, 1903-2001

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Boulder Philharmonic Orchestra.

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University of Minnesota. Dept. of Botany.

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Martin, Lawrence, 1880-1955

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Clements, Frederick E. (Frederick Edward), 1874-1945.

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Avery, Stanley R. (Stanley Robert), 1879-1967

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Stanley R. Avery was the music director at St. Mark's Cathedral in Minneapolis MN. From the description of Stanley Avery papers, 1902-1960. (University of Minnesota, Minneapolis). WorldCat record id: 63313925 ...

Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research Data Center (Boulder, Colo.)

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