Good Wednesday, everyone! I have been a bit hesitant about posting a specifically targeted reference question to the list, but, honestly, I am stumped by this and hope someone out there has some useful information. Specifically, I have been contacted by a patron who believes that he has a "lost archive" of an artist named Cooper Nott Lansing's drawings. The patron further thinks that at least some of this art represents iconic and/or popular cartoon characters of the early- to mid-twentieth century (such as Popeye, Mutt and Jeff, etc.) Obvious, the patron needs a "good" appraisal performed, but there seems so little information on Lansing that I'm stumped where to refer him. (I've checked with the Michigan State University Comic Art Collection as well as a number of local and national art and other repositories [and this list's archives, of course], but have had no luck.) Incidentally, Lansing lived in upstate New York between 1867-1927. The family may (or may not) be somehow related to James Fenimore Cooper and may (or may not) be associated with Utica College and/or Lansing, Michigan. It sounds to me like the patron has been in touch with quite a number of institutions for information on this question, so if anyone is familiar with the research -- or if anyone has any ideas whatsoever -- please feel free to contact me personally. Thank you very, very much for any input on this! -Dan Daniel DiLandro College Archivist and Special Collections Librarian E.H. Butler Library 135 1300 Elmwood Ave. Buffalo, NY 14222 p: 716/878-6308 f: 716/878-3134 [log in to unmask] ### A posting from the Archives & Archivists LISTSERV List sponsored by the Society of American Archivists, www.archivists.org. For the terms of participation, please refer to http://www.archivists.org/listservs/arch_listserv_terms.asp. To subscribe or unsubscribe, send e-mail to [log in to unmask] In body of message: SUB ARCHIVES firstname lastname *or*: UNSUB ARCHIVES To post a message, send e-mail to [log in to unmask] Or to do *anything* (and enjoy doing it!), use the web interface at http://listserv.muohio.edu/archives/archives.html Problems? Send e-mail to Robert F Schmidt <[log in to unmask]>