Album of loose photographs assembled by Leslie Farquhar entitled "Miscellaneous/Oberlin People", undated

The Leslie Candor Farquhar Papers are comprised of correspondence, writings, brochures, advertisements, manuscripts, photographs, negatives, slides, exhibit materials, and a scrapbook, most of which were produced by Leslie Farquhar as a journalist, writer, photographer and community volunteer. They reflect the Oberlin College and town community and, to a lesser extent, the Elyria community, primarily during the 1970s through 2008.

The papers are about equally split between texts and photographic materials. The most ambitious writing project, a history of the Women’s Association of the Oberlin Golf Club, while not published, was sold in a comb-bound, computer printout form as a fundraiser for the Association.  The other writings are feature or shorter articles published in Oberlin and Elyria newspapers.

Farquhar was a self-taught photographer with her own wet darkroom for developing black and white 35mm film and making enlarged gelatin silver prints. The papers include negatives, contact sheets and prints, including enlargements up to 11 x 14 inches in Series five.  Subseries 1. Prints holds portraits of Farquhar, loose photographs taken at Oberlin Commencements, images of the Oberlin Golf Club, miscellaneous subjects taken for local newspaper publication, and an album assembled by Farquhar entitled “Miscellaneous/Oberlin People.” Subseries 3, Photography Exhibits, holds mounted prints, labels and text panels for two exhibitions, “Night and Fog in Oberlin,” and “Oberlin at Commencement.”