Negatives and Contact Sheets, ca. 1965-1966

The photographic materials were in the main created by Aaron Levin during his time at Oberlin College, 1964 to 1968. The bulk of the collection comprises negatives created for publication in the college yearbook, the Hi-O-Hi in 1965 and 1966. Levin was the yearbook photography editor in 1966. Other photographers are represented in a smaller number of negatives, presumably also taken for the yearbook. All of the photographic work is in black and white; nearly all of the negatives are 35 mm, with only a few in 120 mm. It appears that only one negative was taken outside of Oberlin; that one is of the Washington Memorial, probably taken during a campus-sponsored field trip.

The slides, which are copies of photographs taken during protests at the college in the late 1960s and in 1970, were prepared by Levin for the Vietnam Era Reunion at Oberlin College in November 1990.

The collection is arranged into three series.