Photographs: Hi-O-Hi Yearbook Collection

Collection

Identifier: RG 32-008

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

The Oberlin College yearbook, titled the Hi-O-Hi, is a rich source of photographic documentation from 1889 to 2006, after which it ceased publication. In the final years of the yearbook, publication was erratic. The Hi-O-Hi photograph collection covers the years 1960-61, 1972-77, and the 1980s through 1994. There is less photographic documentation of the College in general for the 1980s though the early 2000s, and this collection helps to fill that gap.

The collection is arranged into four series: Series 1. Layout Sheets; Series 2. Photographic Prints (loose) and Graphics; Series 3. Contact Sheets and Negatives, and Series 4. Digital Duplicates of Yearbooks on DVDs.

Beginning in 2010, the college library began sending yearbooks to a professional digital conversion lab in order to mount the yearbooks of significant alumni years online on the Five Colleges of Ohio web site (link on the Archives web site homepage). Yearbooks for the classes of 1960-63 and 1985-87 were digitized in time for the 50^th and 25^th reunions for those classes from 2010 to 2013. In this series are stored the DVDs produced by Digital Conversion Solutions and one DVD produced in-house.

Dates

Creation: 1960-1994, undated
Other: Date acquired: 01/19/1988

Creator

various (Person)
Sherlock, Rick (Person)

Conditions Governing Access

Unrestricted.

Extent

23.28 Linear Feet

Language of Materials

English

Additional Description

Method of Acquisition

The collection was transferred by accession in seven lots between 1988 and 2011. Materials from the 1980s and 1990s were received from Hi-O-Hi editors in 1988, 1989, and 1994. A small amount of material from the 1970s was previously filed in Subjects, RG 32/5 from an unknown source. The digital surrogates on DVDs were received from Digital Conversion Solutions, with the exception of one DVD produced in-house.

Accruals and Additions

Accession No: Unaccessioned and 1988/008, 1989/089, 1994/010, 1994/033, 2010/062, 2011/057, 2011/075.

Related Materials

For photographs taken in 1962-63 for the yearbook, see the Ronald H. Hardin Photographs Collection, 30/441. For photographs of Hi-O-Hi student office staff and one graphic dating from the 1920s, 1930s and ca. 1950s, see Subjects: Hi-O-Hi (RG 32/5). The yearbooks themselves are shelved in the Goodrich Room; those for 1960 through 1990 are available in digital form online on the Five Colleges of Ohio website at http://dcollections.oberlin.edu/cdm/search/collection/digtalbks.