The Jones Family
Shirley Cochrane's illustrated fiction for young readers, published by Washington Expatriates Press in 1992. Associated with children's writing from Chapel Hill, it has thirty two pages plus front matter.
Person in the county’s record
Shirley Cochrane
1925–2015 · Dates from the Library of Congress · On the Friends’ Local Authors roster → · Library of Congress authority record ↗
The index holds one work for Shirley Cochrane so far. Search further, by the Library of Congress heading: WorldCat · OCPL. If you know a source, tell us.
Indexed works
Works about or by Shirley Cochrane. Each links to the institution that holds or provides it. Background reading appears below.
By Shirley Cochrane
About Shirley Cochrane
William McWhorter Cochrane papers, 1862-2002.
Papers of William McWhorter Cochrane (1917-2004) spanning 1862 to 2002, 44,000 items in 72.5 linear feet, part of the Southern Historical Collection at UNC, collection 5079. Topics include the United States Senate and its Committee on Rules and Administration, Senator B. Everett Jordan, Terry Sanford, Albert Coates and the Institute of Government at Chapel Hill, and naval service in the Second World War.
Included because: Catalog heading in the UNC record: Cochrane, Shirley, 1925-2015.
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Records of the time
- DigitalNC newspapers: 16 Orange County pages naming Shirley Cochrane Searchable pages from historic Orange County newspapers
Collections and databases
- NC LIVE: prepared search for Shirley Cochrane Library card Search NC LIVE for this subject and Orange County. You can change the search terms. Sign in through your North Carolina library to access the materials.
- Ancestry Library Edition In the libraryOrange County Public Library Census, birth, death and marriage records, and more, free on the public computers at OCPL libraries
Local help
- Rebecca B. Wall Local History Collection, Orange County Public Library The county library’s local-history room at the Main Library in Hillsborough: books, journals, maps, and microfilm of county records from 1752
- Local History Help Hours and request formOCPL Local History Liaison Meet with the Local History Liaison at the Main Library, usually Mondays from noon to 3 p.m., or send a question using the online request form
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