Administrative Files, 1976-1997

The records of the Treasurer's Office date from 1822 to 1997.  They include incoming and outgoing correspondence, bills and receipts, records of student manual labor and teacher pay, student account and scholarship records, files and ledgers documenting gifts and bequests, and financial statements of student organizations.  Topics covered in these records include the establishment, organization, and funding of Oberlin College, biographical and financial information on individual students, antislavery agitation, aid to blacks, education of blacks and women, temperance, and evangelical religious activities.  Portions of this record group have been microfilmed and indexed.  The records were not interfiled when received, so the two subgroups generally reflect the individual accessions which make up the collection.