RG 30. Personal Papers

Scope and Contents The Ernest and Mary Fisk Papers span the years of Ernest's career as a journalist and in the foreign service. The great bulk of the material is from the Fisks' time in India, Pakistan, and Nepal with the State Department. The very few papers not from this time are mostly not of the Fisks' creation. The collection is mainly personal, but contains much information about their professional duties. There is little material of an expressly professional nature. The Fisk Papers are...

Scope and Contents The papers of James Caldwell McCullough document his greatest interests–photography and chemistry. His personal and professional correspondence and laboratory manuals make up the bulk of his collection. McCullough's letters document his professionalism through his dealings with other corporations and with the college itself. He never received a doctorate in his field, but he managed to convince the college that his years of service and experience surmounted his limited schooling....

Scope and Contents The papers of Lloyd William and Esther Bliss Taylor document their involvement in numerous professional and private organizations. Additionally, the papers reflect their views on temperance, belief in Christianity, and their political and social opinions. The collection is divided into two subgroups, the papers of Lloyd William Taylor, and the papers of Esther Bliss Taylor. Subgroup I contains the papers of William Lloyd Taylor from 1921 to 1952. The bulk of the materials are...

Scope and Contents Consists of five record series: Biographical File, 1899-1955; Correspondence, 1930-38; Field Notebooks, Aug. 4, 1899-Oct. 16, 1923 (No. 1-7); Miscellaneous File, 1900-1930s, undated; and, Writings File, 1919-35, undated. Included are the seven volumes of field notebooks covering surveys of properties in Oberlin, including those in and around the College campus and those properties on Edgemere and Reamer Streets. A great many of the pages are vacant. The 1930-38 correspondence,...

Scope and Contents The papers of Irenaeus J. Atwood and the Atwood family represent a compilation of personal items and writings that reflect the inextricable involvement of their lives with the Oberlin Shansi Mission in China. The collection includes correspondence, printed matter, photographs, and miscellaneous materials and an artifact collected predominantly by Irenaeus Atwood and his daughter, Mabel. The correspondence series is limited in scope, containing only four letters, as are the photographs, of...

Scope and Contents The papers of Susan Rowena Bird (1865-1900) and the Bird family provide a good source for study of the missionary settlement in Shanxi Province, China, and its programs prior to the Boxer Rebellion of 1900. The collection consists primarily of correspondence from Susan Rowena Bird during her time in China as a missionary, as well as letters from other residents of the Taigu community and other Bird family members. Susan Rowena Bird was a member of the “Oberlin Band,” the group of...

Scope and Contents The papers of Paul Leaton Corbin constitute a small portion of Corbin's research collection on China, assembled over the course of Corbin's 29 years as a missionary in Shansi Province. Consisting almost entirely of printed materials, these files document the educational and evangelical work of the American Board in North China from 1900 to 1936. The papers also provide evidence of the activities of several foreign missionary organizations headquartered in Shanghai. Notably absent from...

Scope and Contents The Charles Livingstone Papers at the Oberlin College Archives mainly comprise Charles Livingstone’s account of the Zambezi Expedition of 1858 to 1864, handwritten in journal books. (The second of the four volumes of the account is not in this collection). The fourth volume is dated 1864. The brothers Charles and David Livingstone drew upon this account to write their book Narrative of an Expedition to the Zambesi and its Tributaries, and the Discovery of the...

Scope and Contents This small collection relates to Samuel M. Cooper’s time as a student and alum at Oberlin College, his first position as a teacher and coach at Bellevue High School in the 1940s, and his involvement in the John W. Heisman Club in the 1980s. The club’s membership is composed of Oberlin College athletic letter winners, and anyone interested in the well being of the Oberlin College athletic program. Included is a photograph of the 1935 Oberlin football team; Cooper earned an athletic letter...

Scope and Contents The Wendell P. Russell Papers cover the period of his undergraduate career at Oberlin College, in which he was a key member of committees and organizations for Black Studies and the reevaluation of education at Oberlin, and as a research assistant for a Black Studies Seminar for program directors funded by the Ford Foundation. The bulk of the collection, in Series 4, documents the Black Studies Seminar held in Aspen, Colorado July 19-25, 1970. The Seminar was organized by the...