Oberlin College
Organization
Dates
- Existence: 1833-
Found in 30 Collections and/or Records:
Architectural Records
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: RG 53
Scope and Contents
The architectural records at the Oberlin College Archives relate to the architecture or built environment of the College and the City of Oberlin from the 1830s to the present, except for a handful of isolated references to other places. The buildings which make up the Oberlin College campus, as well as those which are now gone, constitute a rich artifactual document of institutional growth since the founding of Oberlin in 1833. Oberlin’s architectural history is one of eclecticism – a...
Dates:
1842-2008, undated; Other: Date acquired: 1976
Found in:
Oberlin College Archives
Moving Images: DVDs
Collection
Identifier: RG 57-003
Scope and Contents
The DVD collection includes copies of 16mm film, copies of VHS tapes, and born digital files.
Dates:
1940-2024; Majority of material found in 1996-2013
Found in:
Oberlin College Archives
Moving Images: Motion Picture Film Collection
Collection
Identifier: RG 57-001
Scope and Contents
The motion picture film collection comprises approximately 252 reels of safety film, primarily 16mm, dating from 1927 to 1983, with the bulk dating from 1927 through the 1950s. The films are inventoried on a FileMaker Pro database accessible to Archives staff. The following subject index to the film collection is not complete but will enable the researcher to grasp the range of films available on commonly searched topics. Films cannot be played on equipment. Some films have been...
Dates:
1927 - 1983; Majority of material found in 1927-1950s; Other: Date acquired: 08/31/1971
Found in:
Oberlin College Archives
Moving Images: Videotape Recordings
Collection
Identifier: RG 57-002
Scope and Contents
Most of the Oberlin College Archives’ motion picture recordings on VHS cassette tape have some relation to Oberlin College or the City of Oberlin. The rest are, with only a few exceptions, related to Lorain County or the greater Cleveland/Akron area.
For the most part, the videocassettes date from the mid-1980s to the mid-2000s. VHS (Video Home System) tape was first released in America in 1977 and began to be replaced by other media in the late 1990s, first by DVCAM tapes on...
Dates:
1940-2009, undated; Majority of material found in 1990-2000; Other: Date acquired: 01/01/1967
Found in:
Oberlin College Archives
Oberlin and Civil Rights Collection
Collection
Identifier: RG 30-427
Scope and Contents
The Oberlin and Civil Rights Collection is an artificial one consisting of material donated by or relating to Oberlin students who participated in the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s. The collection began as collaboration between the Oberlin College Archives, Oberlin alumni from the classes of the 1950s and 60s, and the staff of the Oberlin Alumni Magazine. Oberlin has a long tradition of student activism, and during the Civil Rights Movement many...
Dates:
1920s-2015, undated; Other: Majority of material found in 1960s; Other: Date acquired: 2012 September 20
Found in:
Oberlin College Archives
Oberlin File
Collection
Identifier: RG 21
Abstract
The Oberlin File is a collection of single items by or about Oberlinians and the College. It is an artificial collection comprised of many small accessions or items transferred without deed of gift.
Dates:
1823-2003, undated
Found in:
Oberlin College Archives
Oberlin Folk Music and the Cat in the Cream Coffeehouse Collection
Collection
Identifier: RG 61
Abstract
The collection in the Archives’ Oberlin Folk Music and The Cat in the Cream Coffeehouse Recordings comprises original reel-to-reel tapes dating from 1955-1977 and duplicate CDs of the Conservatory Library’s Folk Music Archive. Additional materials unique to the Archives’ collection include audio, video and photographic records of Spring Folkfest performances from 1997-2017 (2014-2017 is more complete). While there are numerous Folk Music Club and Spring Folkfest recordings taken at the...
Dates:
1955-2018; Other: Date acquired: 09/09/2022
Found in:
Oberlin College Archives
Office of Vice President for Operations
Collection
Identifier: RG 14-001
Scope and Contents
The records of the Office of Vice President for Operations consists of materials from the Vice President's office, including administrative files, records related to buildings and grounds, human resources records, and insurance files.
Dates:
1973-1997, undated
Found in:
Oberlin College Archives
Paintings, Prints, Drawings, and Other Framed Items
Collection
Identifier: RG 40
Dates:
1803-ca. 2006, undated
Found in:
Oberlin College Archives
Photographs: Negatives
Collection
Identifier: RG 32-006
Scope and Contents
The negatives are arranged into three subgroups: Glass plate negatives; photographic materials (including some glass plate) by College photographers Arthur Ludwig and Arthur Ewing Princehorn; and the general collection of film negatives. See the Processing and Preservation Note (in Administrative Information) for background on the categories of negatives and the general history of their production.
Dates:
19th-21st centuries; Majority of material found in 1910s-2000s
Found in:
Oberlin College Archives
Additional filters:
- Subject
- records (documents) 13
- publications 10
- charters 7
- letters (correspondence) 7
- photographs 7
- financial records 6
- handbooks 5
- official reports 4
- questionnaires 4
- Printed ephemera -- Ephemera 3
- Scrapbooks 3
- ephemera 3
- manuscripts 3
- photographs -- slides 3
- posters 3
- programs (documents) 3
- architectural records 2
- design drawings 2
- digital images 2
- digital photographs 2
- glass plate negatives 2
- moving images -- DVDs 2
- moving images -- videocassettes 2
- notebooks 2
- paintings (visual works) -- watercolors 2
- photographs -- negatives (photographic) 2
- photographs -- panoramas 2
- photographs -- photographic prints 2
- photographs--lantern slides 2
- prints (visual works) 2
- sound recordings -- CD-ROMs 2
- sound recordings -- audiocassettes 2
- sound recordings -- audiotapes 2
- theses and dissertations 2
- Account books 1
- College students 1
- LGBTQ+ 1
- Web sites 1
- artifacts (objects genre) 1
- autograph albums 1
- banners 1
- booklets 1
- braille 1
- broadsides (notices) 1
- calendars 1
- catalogs (documents) 1
- certificates 1
- contact sheets 1
- diaries 1
- diplomas 1
- drawings (visual works) 1
- genealogical tables 1
- interviews 1
- lecture notes 1
- ledgers (account books) 1
- legal documents 1
- logs (records) 1
- maps 1
- miniatures (paintings) 1
- moving images - U-matic tapes 1
- moving images -- film 1
- moving images -- videotapes 1
- musical instruments 1
- negatives (photographic) 1
- notes 1
- oral histories (document genres) 1
- organizational charts 1
- paintings (visual works) 1
- paintings (visual works) -- acrylic paintings 1
- paintings (visual works) -- oil paintings 1
- pamphlets 1
- papers (documents) 1
- photograph albums 1
- photographic transparencies 1
- photographs -- aerial photographs 1
- photographs -- color transparencies 1
- photographs -- oversize 1
- photographs--contact prints 1
- photographs--contact sheets 1
- photographs--gelatin silver prints 1
- photographs--interpositives 1
- photographs--negatives: cut film 1
- photographs--negatives: roll film 1
- photographs--stereoscopic photographs 1
- plates (dishes) 1
- plays (performed works) 1
- poems 1
- postcards 1
- recipes 1
- research (document genres) 1
- rosters 1
- scores 1
- shop signs 1
- signboards 1
- silhouettes 1
- sound recordings -- phonograph records 1
- speeches 1
- stickers 1 + ∧ less
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