RG 30. Personal Papers

Scope and Contents The papers consist mainly of letters Mabel wrote to her family while a student at Oberlin College. She lived in Stewart Hall, Lord Cottage and Talcott Hall, and thus tells of life in a girls dormitory. The subjects she writes about include parties and “spreads,” her friends, a few teachers (Professor of German, Arletta M. Abbott, for example), rules broken (4-8-06), lectures by Dean of College Women, Florence M. Philip (1908), being entertained by two faculty wives (3-4-08), a winning debate...

Scope and Contents Consisting almost exclusively of data and statistics from her phenomenological movement behavior studies, the collection sheds little light on the personal life of Sara Louise Houston. The earliest records consist of two graduate school papers written by Houston in 1964 and 1965 on the relationship between movement and the fine arts. The remainder of the records are comprised of questionnaires, personal profiles, and statistics derived from her movement behavior studies.The...

Scope and Contents The papers of Guy Stevens Callender consist of materials that primarily relate to the economic history of the Upper Midwest. Notes exist on “internal Improvements in Ohio”; on the “early History of the Canal”; and on economic developments in the State of Illinois (six folders).  These notes may have been part of the 1915 book purchase. The book purchase itself is documented in the records of the Oberlin College Library and in the personal papers of director Azariah Smith Root. This...

Scope and Contents The papers in this collection were created by Paula Goldsmid during her tenure at Oberlin College as Associate Dean in the College of Arts and Sciences and as a member of the Women’s Studies Committee starting in 1974. The files cover women’s organizations and issues during the period 1970-1983. The files are a combination of topical files and Oberlin-specific files with relation to abortion rights, Affirmative Action, day care, equalization of retirement benefits, gay literature, minority...

Scope and Contents The papers of Daniel Moe consist of an award, biographical information, diaries and scrapbooks, writings and music compositions, correspondence, various files relating to both his Oberlin and non-Oberlin service, photographs and reel-to-reel tape recordings. These materials document Moe’s choral career in both the academic and religious sectors, though the bulk of the collection relates to his time at Oberlin College.The collection documents Moe’s intense focus on his musical...

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...

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This collection consists of 18 glass plate photographic negatives in 4" x 5" format. The photographs are of various buildings and sites in Oberlin, and were probably taken by Harry and Ernest Crisp. Subjects include ice skaters, Spear Library, First Church, College Chapel, Peters Hall, downtown Oberlin, Tappan Square, and the Theological Seminary Building.

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 papers of George Edward Woodberry reflect Woodberry’s position as a poet, critic and educator. The 46 documents in the collection are letters written by Woodberry to George H. Danton, Oberlin College faculty member who, while working on his doctorate at Columbia University, had been Woodberry’s research assistant. The letters range in date from June 30, 1903 to October 29, 1927, and are largely personal in nature.  Woodberry was a charming and indefatigable letter-writer, his...

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A small collection, the bulk of the Eva J. Price Papers are dated 1884 through 1902. The collection includes correspondence, a journal, and photographs. Price's journal sheds light on her experience during the Boxer Uprising in China.