WAUCoxEdwardPHColl1241.xml Guide to the Edward G. Cox Photograph Collection 1906-circa 1960 Cox (Edward G.) Photograph Collection Special Collections, University of Washington Libraries © 2014 (Last modified: 4/12/2018)
Seattle, WA 98195
Finding aid written inEnglish. Finding aid based on DACS (Describing Archives: A Content Standard). University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections PH1241 Cox, Edward G Edward G. Cox photograph collection 1906-circa 1960 25 photographic prints (1 folder) ; sizes vary 18 negatives Collection materials are inEnglish. Edward Cox in his office, outdoors and in Scottish attire. Also includes images the sailboatEbbtide.

Professor Edward Godfrey Cox was a teacher, scholar, bibliographer, and editor born on September 19,1876. He was a professor of English at Cornell from 1907-1911 and at the University of Washington from 1911-1947 and compiled "A Reference Guide to the Literature of Travel" that chronologically presented books on travel, voyages, and expeditions. This was published by the University of Washington Press from 1934-1949. He also worked as a stream warden in Alaska and as a commercial fisherman in the Pacific off Cape Flattery. For more than forty years he traveled in the Puget Sound and British Columbia waters on “Juno”-a 35-foot power cruiser. He also was interested in all things Scottish and traveled through Scotland on foot and by bicycle; he played the pipes expertly, danced all the Highland dances, and spoke and read Gaelic. He died in 1963.

Edward Cox in his office, on a ship and outdoors. Also includes images of the sailboat Ebbtide and one image of Cox in Scottish attire.

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Processed by Stefanie Terasaki, 2014; processing completed in 2014.

Accessioned as PH2001-135.

Some images transferred from the Portraits Collection and the Edward Godfrey Cox Papers.

Photographic prints Visual Materials Collections (University of Washington) Photographs

 

Portraits of Edward G. Cox 1 1 Edward Cox in New York wearing Fraizer tartan 1906 1 2-6 Edward Cox seated in his office circa 1934-circa 1947 1 7-8 Edward Cox eating aboard the sailboatEbbtide undated 1 9-11 Edward Cox leaning on railing of the sailboatEbbtideand smoking a pipe circa 1931-circa 1956 1 12 Edward Cox seated with pen and paper on the sailboatEbbtide undated 1 13 Edward Cox with bucket of water and pipe outside a cabin undated 1 14 Edward Cox leaning against tree outdoors undated 1 15 Edward Cox seated with woman at table, probably at a cabin undated 1 16 Edward Cox playing the bagpipe aboard his boatJunooff Decatur Island, San Juan Islands, WA circa 1958

Color photograph.

 SailboatEbbtide,scenery and cabin 1 17-19 SailboatEbbtideon the water undated 1 20 View of cabins on hillside taken from the sailboat undated 1 21 Road with fence and cabin visible through trees undated 1 22 Front of a cabin undated University of Washington Gathering 1 23 Helen Kahin and Melvin Rader seated circa 1960

Color photograph.

Helen Kahin was part of the English Department and Melvin Rader was a professor of Philosophy at the University of Washington.

 1 24-25 Edward Cox seated with Paul Coughlan, husband to Dr. Helen Kahin circa 1960

Color photographs.