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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Note: Scope and content entry taken from William E. Bigglestone's unpublished "[preliminary] Guide to the Oberlin College Archives," which was prepared as individual entry sheets in a three-ring binder during the early 1980s.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
Office of Development and Alumni Affairs Records
Collection
Identifier: RG 26
Scope and Contents
The records of the Office of Development and Alumni Affairs document the fund-raising, reporting, research, and public relations activities of the development arm of Oberlin College from 1887 to the present. These records do not provide a consecutive account of the complicated history of the Development Office per se. That history may be constructed by consulting this collection and related holdings of institutional records and personal papers (as detailed below) in the Oberlin College...
Dates:
1857-2012
Found in:
Oberlin College Archives
Office of the Registrar Records
Collection
Identifier: RG 27
Scope and Contents
The records of the Office of the Registrar (1859-1987) document the multiple functions of the office: registration of students in classes; assigning of classroom space; initiation of student billing; transfer of credit from other institutions; recommendation of degree candidates; reporting of grades; and reporting, through its annual reports, on academic performance. The collection consists primarily of student grade records (1859-1939) in ledger, card, and transcript format. The remainder...
Dates:
1859 - 1999
Found in:
Oberlin College Archives
Alumni Records
Collection
Identifier: RG 28
Scope and Contents
The alumni records retained in the Oberlin College Archives represents only the files of deceased graduates and former students. Current files on living alumni are held by the Alumni Information Service and are housed in the basement of Bosworth Hall. Faculty, staff, trustee, and president files mainly are comprised of deceased or retired individuals.The alumni records in the Oberlin College Archives are arranged in eight series: 1. Non-graduates who died prior to July 1, 1966; 2....
Dates:
1833-2024; Other: 1968-08-30
Found in:
Oberlin College Archives