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Eric B. Nye Papers
Collection
Identifier: RG 30-342
Scope and Contents
The papers of Eric B. Nye, Oberlin Class of 1970, document his days as a student at Oberlin College (1966-70), including his summers spent at Cape Cod (1967) and on the Oberlin programs in France (1968) and Vienna (1969). His time at Oberlin College spanned an era of increasing unrest among college students across the country in reaction to the Vietnam War and civil protests at home, and Oberlin experienced its share of this unrest.The collection consists of a notebook from a...
Dates:
1961-1981, undated; Other: Date acquired: 2001 June 19
Found in:
Oberlin College Archives
Ernest and Mary Fisk Papers
Collection
Identifier: RG 30-225
Scope and Contents
The Ernest and Mary Fisk Papers span the years of Ernest's career as a journalist and in the foreign service. The great bulk of the material is from the Fisks' time in India, Pakistan, and Nepal with the State Department. The very few papers not from this time are mostly not of the Fisks' creation. The collection is mainly personal, but contains much information about their professional duties. There is little material of an expressly professional nature.The Fisk Papers are...
Dates:
1862 - 1966; Majority of material found in 1937-1966; Other: Date acquired: 1990 January 1
Found in:
Oberlin College Archives
Ernest B. Chamberlain Papers
Collection
Identifier: RG 30-039
Abstract
The papers of Ernest B. Chamberlain consist of files of the Oberlin Class of 1904 as well as materials related to his work as an author and editor.
Dates:
1904-1969; Other: Date acquired: 06/23/1969
Found in:
Oberlin College Archives
Ernest Bourner Allen Papers
Collection
Identifier: RG 30-137
Scope and Contents
The papers of Ernest B. Allen document his studies in graduate school, his ministry service, and his travels to Jerusalem and Egypt. The collection consists of notes, 1901-1903, taken by Allen of lectures given by Professor Edward I. Bosworth of the Oberlin Theological Seminary and by other faculty members. The subjects of the lectures include Pauline Theology, New Testament Introduction, and Philosophy and Development of Religion. Also included are four parish registers, 1906-1931, that...
Dates:
1895-1931, undated; Other: Date acquired: 10/22/1980
Found in:
Oberlin College Archives
Ernest Hatch Wilkins Presidential Papers
Collection
Identifier: RG 02-007
Scope and Contents
Included in the 85 boxes of incoming and outgoing correspondence are letters from and about the following individuals and organizations of the day: Arthur Vandenberg, Robert M. Hutchins, Julian Huxley, Cass Gilbert, Clayton, K. Fauver, R.A. Millikan-Robert, John D. Rockefeller, Jr., the American Association of University Women, and the American Social Hygiene Association. Among the topics covered are scholarships, alumni questionnaires, Chapel attendance, organizational reports, Black...
Dates:
1901-1963, undated; Majority of material found within 1926-1963; Other: Date acquired: 1967 December 27
Found in:
Oberlin College Archives
Erwin H. Richards Papers
Collection
Identifier: RG 30-271
Scope and Contents
The Erwin H. Richards papers consist of a scrapbook, correspondence, writings, photographs and photograph albums, glass plate negatives, lantern slides, a map, and printer’s blocks that document the family’s missionary activity in Portuguese East Africa.The writings constitute a significant portion of the Erwin H. Richards papers. Included are writings and translations by Richards, used as instructional tools during his missionary work in Africa. The writings by others also include...
Dates:
1850 - 1994; Majority of material found in 1880-1910; Other: Date acquired: 1993 November 3
Found in:
Oberlin College Archives
Erwin N. Griswold Papers
Collection
Identifier: RG 30-101
Scope and Contents
The papers of Erwin N. Griswold cover the term of Griswold's service on the Oberlin College Board of Trustees from 1936 to 1992. Griswold served on the Board until 1980, and remained an Honorary Trustee until his death in 1994. The more extensive archive relating to Griswold's service as a professor of law and Dean of the Harvard University Law School (1946-67) is held by the Harvard University Law School Library. Records pertaining to Griswold's service (1967-73) as U. S. Solicitor...
Dates:
1917 - 1998; Other: Date acquired: 05/16/1977
Found in:
Oberlin College Archives
Esther A. Close & Mary Maud Mann Papers
Collection
Identifier: RG 30-217
Scope and Contents
This collection is divided into three series, but largely consists of diaries and transcripts of two Oberlin students from the 1880s.The collection contains little biographical information of either woman, apart from what can be gleamed from the everyday occurrences in their diaries.Close and Mann were evidently friends, as well as cousins. Close’s diary mentions a “Maud” quite frequently, and as Mann’s student file lists her as “M. Maud Mann,” it is quite likely that...
Dates:
1884 - 1990; Majority of material found within 1884 - 1910; Other: Date acquired: 1990 June 18
Found in:
Oberlin College Archives
Eva J. Price Papers
Collection
Identifier: RG 30-274
Scope and Contents
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.
Dates:
1884-1990, undated
Found in:
Oberlin College Archives
Everett D. Hawkins Papers
Collection
Identifier: RG 30-130
Scope and Contents
The papers of Everett Day Hawkins mainly document the two years Hawkins spent in Taigu, China, as a Shansi Representative of Oberlin College (1927-29). Later materials pertain to Hawkins' service in Chungking with the U.S. Office of War Information (1944-46). Virtually no record exists in these papers of Hawkins' teaching career at Mt. Holyoke College and the University of Wisconsin; his government service; or his scholarship in Southeast Asian development economics.Hawkins'...
Dates:
1900-1972; Majority of material found in 1927-1946; Other: Date acquired: 04/09/1979
Found in:
Oberlin College Archives