George Cope papers
name: label: Creator
content: Cope, George, 1855-1929
topic: label: Occupation
content: Painters -- Pennsylvania -- West Chester
label: Topic
content: Painting, Modern -- 20th century -- Pennsylvania -- West Chester
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: Microfilmed in 1987 as part of AAA's Philadelphia Arts Documentation Project.
creator: label: Creator
content: Cope, George, 1855-1929
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Painter; West Chester, Pennsylvania.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 0.2 Linear feet ((on partial microfilm reel))
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1878-1929
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.copegeor
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: 35mm microfilm reel 4018 available at Archives of American Art offices, through interlibrary loan, at the Free Library of Philadelphia, and at the Chester County Historical Society.
originalsloc: label: Existence and Location of Originals
content: Originals in Chester County Historical Society.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Invitations to viewings of Cope's paintings; requests for loans of his works; cancelled checks; three drawings which probably related to a canvas stretching device and the patent he received for the invention; newspaper clippings; photographs of Cope, including one of Cope with his teacher Herman Herzog; and a list of Cope's paintings compiled by the Chester County Historical Society.