Platt, Alfred Cowles
Person
Dates
- Existence: 1828-1884
Found in 6 Collections and/or Records:
Photograph Albums Collection
Collection — boxes
Identifier: RG 32-007
Scope and Contents
The Photograph Albums Collection comprises albums or album contents dating from 1861 to 2000. Fifteen of these date from the 19th century, with cartes-de-visite, collotypes, tintypes, cabinet cards, postcards, cyanotypes, and other early prints. Cyanotypes dominate the contents of albums dating from 1900 to 1910, typically taken by Oberlin students themselves. From the 1920s to the 1960s several College-produced albums feature quality gelatin silver prints made...
Dates:
1861 - 2000; Majority of material found within 1890 - 1920; Other: Date acquired: 05/13/1968
Found in:
Oberlin College Archives
Photographs: Buildings, Monuments, and Places
Collection
Identifier: RG 32-004
Scope and Contents
Photographic images of buildings, monuments and places on campus, on paper of legal size and smaller, fill this category; it also includes born digital images. Nearly all of the buildings represented are college buildings; the exceptions are a few early Oberlin churches. The monuments represented are college-owned, with some exceptions. Places constitute the Arboretum, a large natural area with a reservoir, and Tappan Square, now devoid of buildings but which once served as the site of...
Dates:
1860s to Present; Other: Date acquired: 1966
Found in:
Oberlin College Archives
Photographs: Class Albums
Collection
Identifier: RG 32-003-003
Scope and Contents
Class albums are photograph albums with portraits of the graduating members of a particular class year at Oberlin College, which sometimes include photographs of faculty members or the president of the College. The date range for these is 1858-1898, but some years are not represented. These albums replace the daguerreotype and ambroytpe group portraits of the preceding two decades as photographers adopted the methods of making multiple prints from wet or dry plate negatives.
The...
Dates:
1858-1898; Other: Date acquired: 1966
Found in:
Oberlin College Archives
Photographs: Graduates and Former Students
Collection
Identifier: RG 32-003-001
Scope and Contents
The photographs of graduates and former students are arranged in two series. A third series holds photographs of Oberlin community members associated in some way with the college.
Loose photographs of graduates and former college students in Series 1, Subseries 1 are arranged chronologically by graduating class, beginning with 1836. Files include photographs taken while students attended Oberlin and after they left. Many of the latter were taken during class reunions. Some...
Dates:
1836 to Present; Other: Date acquired: 1966
Found in:
Oberlin College Archives
Photographs: Subjects
Collection
Identifier: RG 32-005
Scope and Contents
This grouping, arranged by subject, holds the largest numbers of photographic prints in the Oberlin College Archives. The bulk of them are 8” x 10” or smaller, and are stored vertically in file cabinet drawers. Older, more fragile prints are stored separately in records cartons and require more careful handling. The subject headings were locally derived and do not adhere to any controlled vocabulary.
The older prints, dating from the 1850s to the later 1910s, were produced by...
Dates:
ca. 1850s-Present; Other: Date acquired: 1966
Found in:
Oberlin College Archives
Platt Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: RG 30-199
Scope and Contents
The papers of the Platt Family document the lives of several members of the Platt Family, providing accounts regarding life on an Indian Reservation in Iowa, hardships faced during severe winter weather, and the relationships between American Indians and the settlers from the East. The collection consists primarily of correspondence among family members, including letters (transcriptions) from Elizabeth Charlotte Ricketts Whaley Lehman in which she described teaching school in Iowa...
Dates:
1845-1960, undated; Majority of material found in 1848-1910
Found in:
Oberlin College Archives
Additional filters:
- Subject
- photographs--cabinet cards 5
- photographs--cartes-de-visite 4
- photographs--gelatin silver prints 4
- born digital 3
- cabinet cards 3
- cartes-de-visite 3
- photographic prints 3
- photographs--cyanotypes 3
- digital images 2
- digital photographs 2
- gelatin silver prints 2
- photograph albums 2
- photographs 2
- photographs--albumen prints 2
- photographs--stereoscopic photographs 2
- reproductions 2
- Printed ephemera -- Ephemera 1
- architectural records 1
- collotypes (prints) 1
- cyanotypes 1
- diplomas 1
- letters (correspondence) 1
- manuscripts 1
- photographs -- aerial photographs 1
- photographs -- oversize 1
- photographs -- tintypes 1
- publications 1
- research (document genres) 1
- tintypes 1 + ∧ less
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