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Student Life: Student Papers
Collection
Identifier: RG 19-005
Scope and Contents
The Student Papers collection consists of research papers written by Oberlin College students. The majority of the research topics concern Oberlin issues or people, but some cover other topics. The collection is one series, listing student papers in alphabetical order by author.
Dates:
1908-present; Acquired 1985 January 1
Found in:
Oberlin College Archives
Student Life: Student Notes
Collection
Identifier: RG 19-006
Scope and Contents
The Student Notes collection comprises selected materials produced by students for courses at Oberlin College. The material types include loose notes, notebooks, diaries, examination books, syllabi, maps, handouts, and a chart of world history (oversize). Notes taken in the nineteenth century document pedagogical methods by early Oberlin professors, including Charles Grandison Finney. Two bound volumes of notes by Elizabeth W. R. Lord document lectures on Italian painting by Adelia A. Field...
Dates:
1860-2005; Other: Date acquired: 01/22/1968
Found in:
Oberlin College Archives
Student Life: WOBC Radio Station Records
Collection
Identifier: RG 19-007
Scope and Contents
This collection has been divided into two subgroups: papers and audio recordings. The papers subgroup includes four series. Series 1 includes the WOBC Charter, annual Reports, and administrative files. Series 2 includes correspondence. Series 3 includes publications, mostly consisting of the publication “Newscope," which was a daily report of events at Oberlin, “Staff Notes,” which relayed news for student employees in various departments, and other “miscellaneous” news. Series 3 also...
Dates:
1942-2011, undated; Other: Date acquired: 03/08/1988
Found in:
Oberlin College Archives
Student Life: Mock Convention Records
Collection
Identifier: RG 19-008
Scope and Contents
These records document the mock political conventions held at Oberlin College from 1860 to 1968. This quadrennial event was an Oberlin tradition that many alumni regarded as a highlight of their student experience. There were twenty-seven mock political conventions held at Oberlin. Twenty-four were Republican, two were Democratic, and one was non-partisan. The records consist of correspondence, financial records, official proceedings, committee records, convention newspapers, programs and...
Dates:
1860-1968; Majority of material found in 1924-1968; Other: Date acquired: 07/21/1970
Found in:
Oberlin College Archives
Alumni Association Records
Collection
Identifier: RG 20
Scope and Contents
Records of the Alumni Association of Oberlin College cover the period from 1839 to the present. They document the formation, organization, programs, and activities of the Alumni Association. Included are constitutions, bylaws, minutes, committee reports, correspondence, planning documents, invitations, photographs, video and audion cassettes, memorabilia such as scrapbooks and class distinctions, and general files.Although the records span the entire history of the Association,...
Dates:
1839-present; Majority of material found in 1920-1985; Other: Date acquired: 00/00/1966
Found in:
Oberlin College Archives
Oberlin File
Collection
Identifier: RG 21
Abstract
The Oberlin File is a collection of single items by or about Oberlinians and the College. It is an artificial collection comprised of many small accessions or items transferred without deed of gift.
Dates:
1823-2003, undated
Found in:
Oberlin College Archives
Faculty Club of Oberlin College Records
Collection
Identifier: RG 22
Scope and Contents
The records consist of minutes of the directors and membership, annual reports, correspondence, financial records (Box 2), and printed and duplicated matter.
Note: Scope and content entry taken from William E. Bigglestone's unpublished "[preliminary] Guide to the Oberlin College Archives," which was prepared as individual entry sheets in a three-ring binder during the early 1980s.
Dates:
1919-1939, undated; Other: Date acquired: 00/00/1980
Found in:
Oberlin College Archives
Oberlin Academy Records
Collection
Identifier: RG 23
Scope and Contents
Student admissions records (1904-16) and a variety of printed materials (1850-1916) comprise the records of the Oberlin Academy (1833-1916). Documentation for the years from 1833 to 1892, when the school was known as the Preparatory Department, is limited to printed material (found in Series II) dated 1850-92 and a small number of grade certificates from 1855-56. There are no records for the years 1833-49. The bulk of Series I, Operating Records, provides a fairly detailed and consecutive...
Dates:
1850-1916; Majority of material found in 1901-1916; Other: Date acquired: 07/06/1967
Found in:
Oberlin College Archives
Oberlin Kindergarten-Primary Training School Records
Collection
Identifier: RG 24
Scope and Contents
Correspondence, annual reports, minutes, legal documents, financial ledgers, printed material, and photographs comprise the records of the Oberlin Kindergarten-Primary Training School (OKPTS), founded in 1894 by the Oberlin Kindergarten Association and absorbed in 1932 by the Education Department of Oberlin College. The school's founders conceived of the OKPTS and its free kindergartens as laboratories in which the latest methods of kindergarten pedagogy might be tested; however, the bulk of...
Dates:
1894-1933; Other: Date acquired: 1967
Found in:
Oberlin College Archives
Office of Admissions Records
Collection
Identifier: RG 25
Scope and Contents
The records of the Office of Admissions (1888, 1902-2000), including annual reports, minutes, correspondence, student applications, statistical tables, consultants' reports, and printed materials, document the office's administrative, recruitment, research, and marketing activities over six decades. Minutes of the Committee on Admissions, 1907-28, are housed with the records of the Office of the Secretary. The collection is divided into six series alphabetically arranged: I. Administrative...
Dates:
1888-2000
Found in:
Oberlin College Archives