Papers of Bernice Cosulich
Photograph of Bernice Cosulich
Collection area: Arizona and Southwest
Collection dates: 1923-1956
Correspondence, notes, clippings, photographs, typescripts, and publications relating chiefly to her career with the Arizona Daily Star and as a freelance writer. Material, chiefly articles and newspaper clippings, concerns local and statewide subjects, including Indians, mining operations, and desert plants for medicinal purposes; also letters from various American and English authors, notes for a projected biography of actress Helena Modjeska, and notes and snapshots for a projected work on Arizona ghost towns. Also present are published and unpublished articles about John Galsworthy, Lewis W. Douglas, and Harold Bell Wright. Correspondents include George Doran, Oliver St. John Gogarty, and Frances Gillmor. There are photographs of Morenci, Arizona mining operations; excavations at Ventana Cave, Tucson; the 1946 building of Davis Dam on the Colorado River; and the 1946 Point of Pines, University of Arizona Field Archaeology School. A detailed index to newspaper clippings in the scrapbooks is present.
Journalist and author, Tucson, Arizona; Bernice Cosulich was born in Iowa in 1896. She married Gilbert Cosulich in 1916 and they had one daughter. Ms. Cosulich was on the staff of the Arizona Daily Star newspaper from 1922 to 1948. She also worked as a special correspondent for the New York Times, and Life, Time and Fortune magazines and her work was published in many other magazines. She worked as the social editor from 1922 to 1929 and interviewed famous visitors to Arizona. Later she covered the state legislature from 1941 to 1946, and participated in a study of the Colorado River which led to the 1944 Colorado River Compact concerning water allocations. Her book, entitled
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