RG 30. Personal Papers

Scope and Contents The collection consists of 25 black and white aerial negatives in 4” x 5” format; three color aerial negatives, also 4” x 5”; seven black and white enlargements to 8” x 10” prints; four matte black and white enlargements, also in 8” x 10” prints; and three additional black and white aerial photographs in 8” x 10”.  Nine additional photographs and four photographic postcards, all aerial views by Tom Root, were originally filed in the general photographic collection (RG 32).Most of...

Scope and Contents One of Peirce's early publications (1904) was "The Freedman's Bureau: A Chapter on the History of Reconstruction" (The State University of Iowa Studies in Sociology, Economics, Politics, and History, Vol. III, No. 1). During his research for this study, Peirce wrote to a number of persons who had knowledge of the workings of the Freedmen's Bureau and these papers consist of the 34 replies received. The letters written in 1889-1900 generally concern...

Scope and Contents William Mezger collected these papers while working on a history of the Oberlin College Alumni Association. They consist of memoranda, letters, and minutes dealing with the organization and operation of the Association and include some writings about its history. Of particular interest are letters or interviews written in 1970 by the following persons describing their experiences and knowledge of the Association: Frederick Artz, Dan Bradley, Robert D. Fisher, Virginia Fletcher, E.E....

Scope and Contents The materials in this collection document the life and scholarly work of Professor Frank Hugh Foster. His distinguished career, which spanned forty-eight years, began and ended at Oberlin. The collection consists almost entirely of written materials and manuscripts, some of which appear in bound volumes. Frank H. Foster’s interests covered a variety of theological topics as evidenced by the titles in this collection. Also included are over a hundred letters of received correspondence. The...

Scope and Contents The papers of Susan Wealthy Orvis consists mainly of notes (c. 1934-39) taken by Orvis during the lectures of Graduate School of Theology professors Robert Elliot Brown, Francis William Buckler, Clarence Tucker Craig, George Walter Fiske, Clarence Herbert Hamilton, and Walter Marshall Horton. Also included are notes used by Orvis in her teaching at the Schauffler College of Religious and Social Work in Cleveland (1935-1937); correspondence (1922-26, 1934-35, and n.d.); and biographical...

Scope and Contents The papers consist of Norton's manuscript sermons and notes plus some occasional addresses of his, 1883‑91 and undated.  Of main interest are his notes.  They were taken upon Charles Finney's lectures on pastoral theology and on his Thursday Lectures, c.1858‑61; on Professor Horatio B. Hackett's lectures at Newton Theological Seminary, 1855; and at Andover Theological Seminary on Professor E.A. Park's lectures, 1856‑57; and on Professor Austin Phelps' lectures, 1857‑58.  Also included are...

Scope and Contents The papers of Karl F. and Ruth B. Heiser document closely the family and personal lives of their subjects, but contain much less information about the Heisers’ occupations as psychologists. The collection consists almost entirely of the Heisers’ correspondence, the bulk of which was carried on between Karl and his family, between Karl and his first wife Jennie Byers Heiser, and between Karl and Ruth Heiser.The exception to the collection’s composition of letters is the first...

Scope and Contents The George Nelson Allen family papers contain correspondence, diaries, journals, hymn books, music scores, certificates and diplomas, and photographs. The scope and content of this collection was altered by accessions of family papers, received between 1993 and 1996. Revised in 1992 and again in 1997, this third arrangement and description of the Allen papers had to account for the large entry of correspondence, most of which belonged to Caroline Mary Rudd Allen and her children, as well as...

Scope and Contents The Brian K. Hansen Papers consist of materials related to the formation of the Theatre-Arts Department and major at Oberlin College from 1956 to 1973. The collection primarily consists of documentation regarding the creation and development of both the Theatre-Arts Department as well as the Theatre-Arts Major. Included in the collection are a number of proposals and correspondence among a number of Oberlin College faculty, students and staff, including Brian K. Hansen, David Merrill, Betty...

Scope and Contents The Willard Livingstone Beard Papers consists primarily of letters (1910-1925) between the Willard and Ellen Beard and their children. Of special interest are the twenty letters written by Willard L. Beard and his daughter, Phebe, from Foochow, China (1921-23), some of which tell of the struggle between factions of the Chinese to gain control of the area. A letter from Myron Gould Beard to “Dearest Sister Dot” (Dorothy), dated June 29, 1920, is an account of his visit to Bahia Blanca,...