By Elizabeth Bell, 2013
Title: MS 048 - Robert Coe Sketchbooks Collection, 1922-1975
Primary Creator: Coe, Robert
Extent: 2.0 Boxes
Arrangement:
Series 1. Sketchbooks, 1922 – 1975, 1.5 ft (Boxes 1-2) –
14 sketchbooks containing primarily pencil and charcoal drawings depicting a variety of subjects.
Series 2. Loose Sketches, 1922, 1.5 ft (Box 2) –
9 loose pencil sketches depicting architecture and nudes.
Date Acquired: 09/25/1986
Languages: English
Robert Douglas Coe (1902–1985): Obituary from the Orlando Sentinel
“CANNES, FRANCE — Robert Douglas Coe, 83, a former American diplomat, died May 26.
He was a resident of Cannes and Cody, Wyo., where his family owned Coe Ranch, bought in 1910 from William F. Cody, the American plainsman known as Buffalo Bill.
Coe was former president of the W.R. Coe Foundation, named for his father, William Robertson Coe, an insurance executive who died in 1955. When the foundation was dissolved in 1974, an endowment was given to the Buffalo Bill Historical Center of Cody, which used the money to build the Plains Indian Museum.
Coe attended St. Paul's School and Harvard University. In 1927 he received a master's degree from Magdalen College at Oxford, and the following year he entered the foreign service.
He had posts in Brazil, Peru, Turkey, India, Britain, Italy and the Netherlands, and after 24 years' service retired in 1952. The next year, in what was generally viewed as a political appointment, President Dwight D. Eisenhower made him ambassador to Denmark, a post he held until 1957.”
-- “Robert Douglas Coe, 83, a former American diplomat, died...” Orlando Sentinel 3 June 1985. Web. 28 Aug. 2013.
Repository: McCracken Research Library
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Acquisition Source: Robert Coe Estate
Acquisition Method: Gift
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Preferred Citation: Robert Coe Sketchbooks Collection, MS 48, McCracken Research Library, Buffalo Bill Center of the West.
