urn:taro:utexas.cah.00656 A Guide to the Cook (Phillip P.) Photographs, ca. 1910-1930 Text converted and initial EAD tagging done by Nicole Davis on January 31, 2008 Finding aid written in English. Tue Jul 22 15:27:26 CDT 2003 urn:taro:utexas.cah.00656 converted from EAD 1.0 to 2002 by v1to02.xsl (20030505). Descriptive Summary Cook, Phillip P. Cook (Phillip P.) Photographs ca. 1910-1930 AR 96-262 690 photographic negatives (black and white, 4 in. x 5 in. and smaller); 534 photographic prints (black and white). Center for American History,The University of Texas at Austin English. Biographical Note

Phillip P. Cook was a student at the University of Texas from 1910 to 1913. According to a written note on a sidelines pass, Mr. Cook was a photographer for the sports department during his student days. He later served in Word War I and worked for the Western Electric Company in Fort Worth.

 Scope and Contents

The photographs in this collection include not only material about events and student life at UT, but also views of campus, including building construction and scenes around Austin. Some of these photographs were published in the Cactus Yearbook. In 1910, Mr. Cook also photographed Paris, Texas homes (some of which were destroyed in the Great Fire of 1916). Later photographs taken during the early years of World War I include aviation training at Kelly Field in San Antonio and battleships in Galveston Bay. The latest photographs relate to Mr. Cook’s post-war employment at the Western Electric Company in Fort Worth.

Collection is arranged alphabetically by subject; negatives are restricted.

 Access Restrictions

Some restrictions apply. Consult Reference staff for further information.

 Preferred Citation

Phillip P. Cook Photograph Collection, ca. 1910-1930, Center for American History, University of Texas at Austin.

Index Terms Subjects (Persons) Cook, Phillip P. Roosevelt, Theodore Subjects Architecture, Domestic (Paris, Texas) Aviation Clark Field (Austin, Texas) Buffalo Bayou (Houston, Texas) Dams Kappa Sigma Fraternity Kelly Air Field (San Antonio, Texas) Texas State Capitol University of Oklahoma (Norman, Oklahoma) University of Texas at Austin Western Electric (Fort Worth, Texas) World War I Places Austin, Texas Colorado River Fort Worth, Texas Galveston, Texas Houston, Texas Norman, Oklahoma Nuevo Laredo, Mexico Paris, Texas San Antonio, Texas Detailed Description of the Collection Photographs 3S202.3 Negatives

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 3S374a, b, 3S473