RG 30. Personal Papers

Scope and Contents The papers chiefly consist of letters that Margaret Portia Mickey wrote from Peking and other cities in northern China to her parents and/or brother. Also included are letters written by her mother during a visit to China in 1917-1918. These letters discuss surroundings, travel, and sightseeing in detail, as well as the social life and activities of other missionaries. Essays on various subjects and the "missionary station letters" by Portia Mickey cover such subjects as medical...

Scope and Contents The papers of Sharon F. Patton primarily document her time as the John G.W. Cowles Director of Oberlin College's Allen Art Museum, 1998-2003, and her interest in African and African American Art. Her interest in collecting popular artwork is represented by four of her prints, salt and pepper shaker figurines, and a cotton novelty ornament all based on the subject of African-American stereotype popular artwork. Photographs given to Dr. Patton by Abe Goldsmith of his painting...

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The papers of George J. Binczewski primarily concern Charles Martin Hall, who discovered the electrolytic reduction process for aluminum on February 23, 1986, in Oberlin, Ohio. Mr. Binczewski made it his mission, beginning in 1983, to convince the Aluminum Company of America (Alcoa) to donate their Charles Martin Hall materials to the Oberlin College Archives.

Scope and Contents The photographic output of T.J. Rice at Oberlin between 1894 and 1937 can be found throughout the Photographs record group (32), where they were placed after the College received it sometime after 1937 from Andrew J. Stofan, who purchased Rice’s business and all of his negatives and prints. The only items in the T.J. Rice Papers are two record books in which Rice recorded the names of his clients, the numbers of their orders, and sometimes the amounts received. Record book 1 is...

Scope and Contents The E. Michael Hoffman Papers consist primarily of correspondence and photographs taken by Hoffman while he was in Japan and Manchuria with the Young Men’s Christian Association (YMCA) from 1918 to 1920. Hoffman served in Yokohama, Japan, from November 1918 until February 1919, and then in Harbin, Manchuria until March 1920. The heart of the papers, from 1918 to 1926, consists of about eighty letters written by Hoffman generally from Harbin and mainly to his family as well as...

Scope and Contents The papers of Rufus Cleveland Hovey, OC enrolled, consist of original letters written by Hovey to his family, Hovey’s Civil War journal, and a poem written by Hovey. His letters concern his intention to enroll at Oberlin College, his search for a teaching position, and his military service. The Civil War journal covers the period 1 January 1862 to 18 February 1862. An additional five letters were written by others concerning Hovey’s promotion to officer in the Union Army, his...

Scope and Contents The research materials of Nancy J. Pendleton comprise correspondence, photographs, research copies of documents, and maps. The bulk of the material is made up of research files used for Pendleton’s self-published 1997 book, Early Clintonville (and Grove City) and the Bull and Smith Families. These documents focus on the Bull and Smith families of Clintonville and Grove City, Ohio, and the state of Ohio at large. The collection spans back to 1814, with...

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The Carolyn Frances Corwin Papers document her research for a seminar paper for Professor Geoffrey Blodgett (d. 2001) entitled “Oberlin College Students and the Race Issue in the 1950s.” The collection is divided into two series: I. Article and Research Paper, and II. Questionnaires and Research Materials.

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This personal paper collection is divided into two series.

Abstract The Don J. Pease papers, 1960-2003, document the thirty-year career of a journalist turned leader in state and national politics. Consisting of 188.25 linear feet of records, the papers contain correspondence, legislative files, reports, bills, clippings, campaign literature, audio-visual material, and other files generated during Congressman Pease’s service in the Ohio General Assembly (1964-66, 1968-76) and as a United States Representative from the 13th Ohio District (1977-92)....