David W. Cooper Scrapbook and Papers, 1912-1916, 1951, 1966

Papers of David William Cooper (1894-1975) (B.S. Electrical Engineering, 1916) include class reunion ephemera (35^th, 1951; 50^th, 1966), commencement programs (one retains the original name card), newspaper clippings, scrapbook pages, and a textbook, possibly used by Cooper at the University of Illinois, titled School Civics with Civics of Illinois.

Items in the scrapbook pages include: an electrical show souvenir ticket, athletics programs and schedules (swimming, football), photographs (depicting campus scenes, class games, construction of the Armory, friends, the 1914 Indianapolis 500), small brass artifacts, theater advertisements (Illinois Theater, Columbia Theatre), and ticket stubs.

Fifty Year Illini pin is Artifact #738 in the University of Illinois Artifact Collection, RS 35/3/120.