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Mary F. Tenney Papers
Collection
Identifier: RG 30-181
Scope and Contents
This small collection includes materials from the Tenney and the Snedeker families. Both families were early settlers in the Lorain County region of Ohio, and are connected by the marriage of Mary’s parents, Bernard Tenney and Sadie Snedeker, in 1895. The Tenney family has a long history with Oberlin College spanning multiple generations.Series I pertains to Mary Francis Tenney and her family. Her photo album, dating from the mid- to late 19th century,...
Dates:
1860-ca.1960s; Other: Date acquired: 1978 August 23
Found in:
Oberlin College Archives
Mary J. Culhane Papers
Collection
Identifier: RG 30-404
Scope and Contents
The Mary J. Culhane Papers are divided into three subgroups: I. Records, II. Photographic Materials, and III. Plaques.
Dates:
1966-1993, undated; Other: Date acquired: 2010 January 1
Found in:
Oberlin College Archives
Mary Louise VanDyke Papers
Collection
Identifier: RG 30-455
Scope and Contents
The papers of Mary Louise VanDyke contain a wide variety of materials related to her work with the Dictionary of American Hymnology and as a hymn writer and researcher. Most of the collection comprises Oberlin College alumni and former student composer files in Series 1, which contain correspondence, biographical information, articles and clippings, photographs, and hymns. Some composer files include booklets or spiral bound collections of hymns. Also included in Series 1 are files of...
Dates:
1897-2012, undated; Other: Date acquired: 2018 August 8
Found in:
Oberlin College Archives
Mary Rudd Cochran Papers
Collection
Identifier: RG 30-282
Scope and Contents
The Mary Rudd Cochran papers primarily consist of biographical files, correspondence, financial and property files, professional records, writings files, and photographs. Though the papers cover many activities of her life, the collection mainly documents her private life as a member of an educated, upper middle class family. Her personal files detail life as a child and into adulthood, which focuses much on the Cochran family and their interactions with two other great families of Oberlin,...
Dates:
1882 - 1988; Other: Date acquired: 1995 February 1
Found in:
Oberlin College Archives
Mary S. Yocom Papers
Collection
Identifier: RG 30-079
Scope and Contents
The Mary S. Yocom Papers comprise a small collection consisting of correspondence, records, printed matter, writing, and photographs. The collection is arranged in six record series. Items in several record series relate to the history of the Kindergarten-Primary Training Program in Oberlin.
Dates:
ca. 1919-1968, undated; Other: Date acquired: 08/28/1973
Found in:
Oberlin College Archives
Mary Sheldon Papers
Collection
Identifier: RG 30-200
Scope and Contents
The six folders in this collection consist primarily of Mary Sheldon's composition book, essays detached from the composition book, and other miscellaneous material. The composition book, 1842-1853, includes essays titled "Duties of Students", "The Sabbath", "Women and Politics", "History of the facts relative to the late Illness of our Literary Society" (read August 29, 1849), and "The Circuit Preacher." Essays detached from Sheldon's composition book, 1850-1852, include pieces on "Our Duty...
Dates:
1836-1853, undated; Other: Date acquired: 1989 May 18
Found in:
Oberlin College Archives
Maurice P. Kessler Collection in Honor of Albert Schweitzer Papers
Collection
Identifier: RG 30-344
Scope and Contents
The Maurice P. Kessler Collection in Honor of Albert Schweitzer papers consist of materials related to the life and professional career of Kessler himself, as well as materials pertaining to the career of Albert Schweitzer. The biographical and correspondence files, which include records of immigration, letters to and from Kessler, as well as programs from several of his performances, shed light on Kessler’s career and his time at Oberlin. The bulk of the collection, however, is comprised of...
Dates:
1927 - 1971; Other: Date acquired: 2002 February 7
Found in:
Oberlin College Archives
Max Hubacher Photographs
Collection
Identifier: RG 30-446
Scope and Contents
The Max Hubacher Photographs comprise twenty-four glass plate negatives measuring 4 x 6 inches, and nineteen contact prints from those negatives, taken between June 6 and June 9, 1953 in Oberlin. Max Hubacher was in Oberlin for the 1953 Commencement exercises for his daughter Sylvia’s graduation. Many of the negatives were inscribed with the date that they were taken. The prints have typed or handwritten notations on the backs as to the subjects and dates. It was highly unusual for a...
Dates:
1953; Other: Date acquired: 1990 February 14
Found in:
Oberlin College Archives
Maylon Harold Hepp Papers
Collection
Identifier: RG 30-437
Scope and Contents
The Maylon Harold Hepp Papers consist almost exclusively of correspondence written by Maylon, under the name Harold, to his family. The letters were written between 1930 and 1933, while Hepp was a student at Oberlin. This collection is small, but provides a rich, and often humorous view of college life in the early 1930s. Hepp included drawings, dance cards, hand drawn maps of his dorm rooms and of Chance Creek, report cards, graded papers, and exam schedules in his letters, which provide...
Dates:
1930 - 1933; Other: Date acquired: 2015 May 26
Found in:
Oberlin College Archives
Michael Lynn Collection
Collection
Identifier: RG 30-397
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...
Dates:
1837-1913, undated; Other: Date acquired: 2007 November 1
Found in:
Oberlin College Archives