RG 09. College of Arts and Sciences (Division)

Scope and Contents The records of the Allen Memorial Art Museum date from 1899 to the present. A significant portion of the collection consists of correspondence files of the directors and curators, spanning the years from 1919 to 1991. The correspondence deals with various issues pertaining to acquiring, lending, and borrowing works of art. Extensive files also document exhibits from 1919 to 1987. These exhibition files often include checklists, catalogs, brochures, photographs, and correspondence. The...

Scope and Contents The records of the Department of Education, 1909(1958-78)-1979, mainly document the department's administrative activities during its final twenty years of operation, especially its training and evaluation of student teachers. Records dating from the period prior to 1958 include one foot of correspondence files (1909-14) of Edward A. Miller (1866-1958), Professor and Head of the Department of Pedagogy (1903-07) and the first to hold the title Professor of Education (1907-31). These files...

Scope and Contents The records of the physics department are arranged in three subgroups: General Departmental Records, Organizations and Activities, and Faculty Papers. The General Departmental Records provide information about the physics buildings and equipment, budgets, curriculum, faculty members, foundation and government grants, the planetarium, salaries, and staff meetings. Papers in this subgroup originate primarily with physics faculty members Lloyd W. Taylor, Carl E. Howe, and David L....

Scope and Contents The records of the Communication Studies Department contain materials from its predecessors, the Communication Department (1967-1972) and the Speech Department (1952-1967), as well as some early records from the Forensic Union, a student organization founded in 1927. Consisting of three accessions, as reported on the title page, the third accession followed the suspension of the Department in academic year 1986. The material transferred is an incomplete record of this once well known...

Scope and Contents The records of the Oberlin College Museum, 1877-1964, include correspondence, inventories, an accession book, and a catalogue that contains information relating to the acquisition of specimens for the natural history museum. The Accession Book covers the period 1855-1949 and contains entries that include the name of the donor, date received, a description of the specimen, and the accession number. The correspondence files contain letters from individual donors. Inventory and specimen...

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This collection primarily consists of institutional files related to Oberlin College's German and Russian language departments from 1913 through 1992. The records include information related to writers in residence, summer sessions, and sessions abroad. The German and Russian Department Records have been arranged in three series: Series I. Departmental Administrative Files, Series II. German Language Instructional Files, and Series III. Russian Language Instructional Files.

Scope and Contents Records relating to the early history of the Botany Department consist of account books, faculty files and grade books, student files and papers, and other miscellaneous writings and materials. This record group is arranged into nine series : I. Account Books ; II. Faculty Files; III. Grade Books ; IV. Miscellaneous Files; V. Miscellaneous Printed Materials; VI. Student Files; VII. Student Papers; VIII. Herbarium, further divided into two subseries: 1. Correspondence; 2. General Files,...

Scope and Contents Records relating to the department of philosophy contain annual reports, correspondence, agendas and meeting minutes, files of the Oberlin Colloquium in Philosophy, and student-related academic files. Spanning only forty years (1952-1991), the files provide an uneven picture of the internal and external activities of the Oberlin College Department of Philosophy. Organized around two subgroups, the twelve records series are arranged for the most part in hierarchical order—from the most...

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The Psychology Department records relate to departmental activities between 1910 and 1978. The collection includes incformation about alumni, theses and papers, and photographs.

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The records are arranged into seven series: Administrative Files, Curriculum Files, Historical Files, Financial Records, Programs and Special Events, Subject Files, and Publications.