Charles Horton Cooley papers, 1872-1930.

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Charles Horton Cooley papers, 1872-1930.

Correspondence, including letters, 1881-1884, written to his family while traveling in Europe, and correspondence with his parents, Mary E. and Thomas M. Cooley, and his wife, Elsie Jones Cooley; addresses, notes, essays, book reviews, notes and material for sociology courses; student notebook, 1893-1894, on lectures given by John Dewey; diary of a trip through the Smokey Mountains in 1883; and journals detailing his personal thoughts and tracing the evolution of his ideas on sociology and democracy. And photographs. Correspondents include: Franklin H. Giddings, Henry Holt, Edward A. Ross, Albion W. Small, Pitirim A. Sorokin, Calvin Thomas, James H. Tufts, Lester Ward, and Booker T. Washington.

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University of Michigan. Dept. of Sociology.

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Cooley, Charles Horton, 1864-1929

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Blanshard, Paul, 1892-1980

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