Mary Cox Photographs, 1953-1958.

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Mary Cox Photographs, 1953-1958.

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The Mary Cox Photographs consist of 601 images including photographs copied from the original, digital prints copied from the original transparencies, and photographic transparencies. The images were captured in the Point Hope region in the 1950s. The bulk of the images were made by Mary Cox and her husband, the Reverend Rowland Cox. Subjects include St. Thomas Episcopal Church in Point Hope, parishioners, and church activities. Also incuded are scenes of everyday life in Point Hope including whaling, ceremonies and celebrations, holiday activities, and the arrival of supply ships. The images in this collection provide an in-depth portrait of life in Point Hope in the 1950s.

.6 cubic feet.

University of Alaska Fairbanks, Elmer E. Rasmuson Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 7293473

University of Alaska Fairbanks, Elmer E. Rasmuson Library

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Cox, Rowland J., 1928-1977.

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Cox, Mary (Mary W.)

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The Reverend Rowland Cox was born in 1928. He was ordained in 1953 and was assigned to Point Hope, Alaska. Reverend Cox was accompanied to Point Hope by his wife, Mary. He was priest-in-charge of St. Thomas Mission from 1953 to 1958. Reverend Cox later served as the Episcopal Chaplain at Princeton University, as a faculty member of the General Theological Seminary, and as headmaster of Groton School in Groton, Massachusetts. He died at the age of 49 in 1977. From the description of M...

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In 1982, the General Convention of the Church deleted the words "Protestant" and "in the United States of America" from the official title of the Church, making it the Episcopal Church. From the description of Records of the Protestant Episcopal Church of the United States of America, Domestic and Foreign Missionary Society, 1823-1975 (inclusive). (Yale University). WorldCat record id: 702152635 ...