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Found in 21 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: 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 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
Objects Collection
Collection
Identifier: RG 35
Scope and Contents
The Objects Collection comprises over 500 objects as of 2024, most of which are not associated with another record group or personal paper group. All of the objects have been photographed and described for an image database at http://cdm15963.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/landingpage/collection/objects. This image database, titled the Archives Museum Collection, also holds digital surrogates for...
Dates:
ca. 1830s-2024
Found in:
Oberlin College Archives
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: Daguerreotypes, Ambrotypes, and Tintypes
Collection
Identifier: RG 32-003-004
Scope and Contents
Cased images represent the first forms of photographs taken at Oberlin, with the earliest dating from soon after the invention of photography in 1839, and the majority from the 1850s. In the United States, daguerreotypes were the first common expressions of photography. Daguerreotypes, ambrotypes and tintypes exist only as single unique images that are not generated from negatives. These images typically appear in period cases, which protected the cover glass of daguerreotypes and...
Dates:
ca. 1840-ca. 1860; Other: Majority of material found in 1850s; Other: Date acquired: 00/00/1966
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: Hi-O-Hi Yearbook Collection
Collection
Identifier: RG 32-008
Scope and Contents
The Oberlin College yearbook, titled the Hi-O-Hi, is a rich source of photographic documentation from 1889 to 2006, after which it ceased publication. In the final years of the yearbook, publication was erratic. The Hi-O-Hi photograph collection covers the years 1960-61, 1972-77, and the 1980s through 1994. There is less photographic documentation of the College in general for the 1980s though the early 2000s, and this...
Dates:
1960-1994, undated; Other: Date acquired: 01/19/1988
Found in:
Oberlin College Archives
Additional filters:
- Subject
- photographs -- photographic prints 12
- photographs--gelatin silver prints 8
- photographs 6
- digital images 5
- photographic prints 5
- photographs--cabinet cards 5
- born digital 4
- cabinet cards 4
- cartes-de-visite 4
- gelatin silver prints 4
- photographs--cartes-de-visite 4
- photograph albums 3
- photographs -- oversize 3
- photographs--cyanotypes 3
- reproductions 3
- Printed ephemera -- Ephemera 2
- architectural records 2
- autograph albums 2
- diaries 2
- digital photographs 2
- photographs -- slides 2
- photographs--albumen prints 2
- photographs--stereoscopic photographs 2
- postcards 2
- Account books 1
- DVDs 1
- Indian clubs 1
- Scrapbooks 1
- ambrotypes 1
- artifacts (objects genre) 1
- ashtrays 1
- banners 1
- booklets 1
- broadsides (notices) 1
- buttons (information artifacts) 1
- calendars 1
- canes (walking sticks) 1
- clothing 1
- collotypes (prints) 1
- commemorative jewelry 1
- contact sheets 1
- costume accessories 1
- cups (drinking vessels) 1
- cyanotypes 1
- daguerreotypes 1
- design drawings 1
- dolls 1
- ephemera 1
- fans (costume accessories) 1
- gavels (ceremonial mallets) 1
- genealogical tables 1
- hand presses 1
- inkwells 1
- lecture notes 1
- manuscripts 1
- maquettes (sculptures) 1
- medallions (medals) 1
- microscopes 1
- models (representations) 1
- moving images - U-matic tapes 1
- moving images -- videocassettes 1
- moving images -- videotapes 1
- oral histories (document genres) 1
- paintings (visual works) 1
- paintings (visual works) -- watercolors 1
- photographs -- aerial photographs 1
- photographs -- negatives (photographic) 1
- photographs -- panoramas 1
- photographs -- tintypes 1
- photographs--ambrotypes 1
- photographs--daguerreotypes 1
- photographs--tintypes 1
- plaques (flat objects) 1
- plates (dishes) 1
- plays (performed works) 1
- poems 1
- printing plates 1
- prints (visual works) 1
- programs (documents) 1
- publications 1
- records (documents) 1
- scores 1
- scrolls (information artifacts) 1
- shovels 1
- sound recordings -- audiocassettes 1
- speeches 1
- spoons 1
- textiles 1
- theses and dissertations 1
- tintypes 1
- trophies (objects) 1
- umbrellas 1 + ∧ less
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