RG 30. Personal Papers

Scope and Contents The Herbert Shore Collection in Honor of Eduardo Mondlane is comprised of two subgroups. Subgroup I is Historical Files Relating to Herbert Shore’s Interests in the Arts and Culture. The bulk of this subgroup consists of files relating to the Council on The Arts, Culture, and Technology (TACT) of which Shore was the director from 1974 to 1988. Additional material in this subgroup concerns the performing arts, and includes playscripts, photographs, and audio and video...

Scope and Contents The papers of Frederick B. Artz document his youth in Dayton, Ohio, his World War I service and travels in France, his Oberlin courses in European intellectual history, and critical response to many of his articles and books. With the exception of a small group of condolence letters on the death of Raymond H. Stetson (1872-1950), with whom Artz lived for decades, and of several other letters in the correspondence files, the papers contain virtually no information on his personal life...

Scope and Contents The papers of Julia Finney Monroe are modest in volume and varied in terms of composition. The content of the material largely focuses on very specific aspects of Julia's life, such as her charity work and her travels to Europe and the Middle East. There are very few documents detailing Julia Finney Monroe's personal or family life, her relationship with James Monroe, or her life outside of the years 1885-1901. The travel notebooks that Julia Finney Monroe wrote in 1893 and 1900-01, and...

Scope and Contents The Jorge Luis Borges Collection primarily comprises interviews, ephemera, clippings, photographs, and audio and video recordings documenting Borges’ visit to Oberlin College in May 1983, as well as other interviews with Borges by Ana Cara. Most of the materials were used in the Oberlin College Libraries' digital Jorge Luis Borges Collection published in 2012. The project was one of many developed at Oberlin and the...

Scope and Contents The letters contained in this collection shed light on the daily life in and around Oberlin in the nineteenth century, beginning in 1837, four years after Oberlin’s founding. One letter dating from 1913 is the sole item from the twentieth century. The letters are written by Oberlin College students, Oberlin townspeople, or the families and friends of people residing in Oberlin. None of the letters deal with major historical events; rather, the content is focused on daily occurrences. Of...

Scope and Contents The Clarence Ward Collection provides detail on Clarence Ward’s activities as an architectural consultant and on his administration of the Allen Memorial Art Museum. Information also exists here on the debate of the system of faculty governance at Oberlin College. Consisting of correspondence, memoranda, and other printed materials, this collection is organized into ten series. The correspondence and diaries series provide the richest insight into Ward’s personal and...