Katharine Hogle Cole photograph collection

Collection

Identifier: P1111

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

The Katharine Hogle Cole photograph collection consists of 7 boxes containing 3,674 photographs, slides, and negatives. The collection documents Cole's family, friends, travels, and social activism spanning from 1920 until 2000.

Dates

1920-2000

Creator

Cole, Katharine Hogle, 1911-2004 (Person)

Conditions Governing Access

Twenty-four hour advanced notice encouraged. Materials must be used on-site. Access to parts of this collection may be restricted under provisions of state or federal law.

Conditions Governing Use

The library does not claim to control copyright for all materials in the collection. An individual depicted in a reproduction has privacy rights as outlined in Title 45 CFR, part 46 (Protection of Human Subjects). For further information, please review the J. Willard Marriott Library's Use Agreement and Reproduction Request forms

Biographical Note

Mary Katharine Hogle McTernan Cole (1911-2004) was a humanitarian and social activist. She was born on June 5, 1911 in Salt Lake City, Utah, to James and Mary Copley Hogle. Cole attended the Rowland Hall School for Girls in Salt Lake City and the Bishops School in La Jolla, California. Cole was among the first graduating class at Sarah Lawrence in Bronxville, New York, where she studied with Russian-American author and political theorist Max Lerner. She obtained her Masters Degree in Social Sciences from Columbia University in New York City. Cole interned with the National Labor Relations Board and taught economics and social science at the University of California, Berkeley, and the California Labor School. Additionally, she worked as assistant to Harry Bridges of the International Longshoremen’s and Warehousemen’s Union (ILWU).

Katharine married John Tripp McTernan on July 19, 1939, in Salt Lake City, Utah. Together they had two daughters, Kathleen and Deborah. The two later divorced, and in 1956, she married Lester Cole, a Hollywood screenwriter. Lester Cole was among the “Hollywood Ten,” figures in Hollywood who were targeted by the United States government agency the House Un-American Activities Committee; Cole was blacklisted and jailed for refusing to cooperate with the HUAC. The couple later separated.

Cole was a committed humanitarian and activist who contributed to many causes throughout her lifetime. She was involved in civil rights struggles for Native Americans, supporting the American Indian Movement (AIM) and becoming friends with its founder, Dennis Banks. Through this activism, she assisted in the movement to release Leonard Peltier, a member of AIM, from prison. Since childhood, Cole had been interested in animal welfare; this led her parents to donate land that would become the Salt Lake City Hogle Zoological Gardens, which Cole was involved with throughout her life. Cole was also active in international movements for world peace, and developed a friendship and correspondence with Eileen Bernal, a founder of the Peace Councils Movement in England. (Source: Katharine Cole Obituary, Deseret News, July 16, 2004).

Extent

7 Boxes

Language of Materials

English

Additional Description

Abstract

Katharine Hogle Cole (1911-2004) was a humanitarian and social activist. The Katharine Hogle Cole photograph collection consists of photographs, slides, and negatives documenting Cole's family, friends, travels, and activism throughout the twentieth century.