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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
YMCA and YWCA Records
Collection
Identifier: RG 29
Scope and Contents
The records of the Young Men's and Young Women's Christian Associations of Oberlin College consist of annual reports, minutes, correspondence, scrapbooks, cloth maps, and printed materials documenting the organizations' governance and programs. The cloth maps (1863-96), which predate the 1881 formation of the YMCA, were given to the YMCA by an unknown donor. The earliest textual records are printed pamphlets (1885). The collection has been divided into the following subgroups: I....
Dates:
1863-1971, undated; Majority of material found in 1894-1964; Other: Acquired 1968 September 4
Found in:
Oberlin College Archives
Julia Finney Monroe Papers
Collection
Identifier: RG 30-001
Scope and Contents
The papers of Julia Finney Monroe are modest in volume and varied in terms of composition. The content of the material largely focuses on very specific aspects of Julia's life, such as her charity work and her travels to Europe and the Middle East. There are very few documents detailing Julia Finney Monroe's personal or family life, her relationship with James Monroe, or her life outside of the years 1885-1901. The travel notebooks that Julia Finney Monroe wrote in 1893 and 1900-01, and...
Dates:
1838-1921; Majority of material found in 1880-1900; Other: Date acquired: 03/27/1969
Found in:
Oberlin College Archives
John G. Olmstead Family Papers
Collection — Container: 29 boxes
Identifier: RG 30-002
Scope and Contents
The John G. Olmstead Family papers (1840-1955) consist of correspondence, professional and student files, and other miscellaneous material as collected by John G. Olmstead. This collection is arranged into sixteen series: Series I. Olmstead Letters regarding Academy and College Years; Series II. Files relating to John G. Olmstead’s Professional Activities; Series III. Letters received by Icabod A. Olmstead and Mary C. Olmstead; Series IV. Letters received by John G. Olmstead; Series V....
Dates:
1840-1955; Other: Date acquired: 10/12/1967
Found in:
Oberlin College Archives
Jacob Dolson Cox Papers
Collection
Identifier: RG 30-003
Scope and Contents
The Jacob Dolson Cox Papers consist of 13 record series. In addition to correspondence, there are notes and published articles dealing with microphotography; copies of his speeches and other writings; records reflecting his work as an attorney and his time at the Cincinnati Law School; notes, papers, diaries, record books, newspaper clippings, and other printed material gathered during his studies of the Civil War; and material related to his political career.The partially indexed...
Dates:
1842-1901; Other: Date acquired: 1967 October 12
Found in:
Oberlin College Archives
Walter Marshall Horton Papers
Collection
Identifier: RG 30-004
Abstract
The papers of Walter Marshall Horton primarily consist of Horton's writing and information related to the modern Ecumenical Movement.
Dates:
1903-1967; Other: Date acquired: 05/10/1967
Found in:
Oberlin College Archives
Dan Beach Bradley Papers
Collection
Identifier: RG 30-005
Scope and Contents
The family papers of Dan Beach Bradley consist of letters, letterpress books, diaries, diary transcripts, journals, notebooks, writings, photographs, and a painting. The bulk of the papers document the missionary careers of the Rev. Dan Beach Bradley (1804-73) and his first wife, Emilie Royce Bradley (1811-45) in nineteenth-century Siam (modern Thailand). The collection also includes a small amount of correspondence and writings created by two of their children, Sophia Royce Bradley...
Dates:
1800-1980s; Majority of material found in 1800-1873; Other: Date acquired: 03/23/1971
Found in:
Oberlin College Archives
Archibald McCullum Ball and Sarah A. Curtis Papers
Collection
Identifier: RG 30-006
Scope and Contents
The genealogy fills 12 three-ring notebooks, with an accompanying volume that contains an introduction and an index. In addition to the genealogical information, the notebooks include letters and documents of family members, plus historical and biographical sketches. The collection includes letters by Irene Ball (Allen), 1836-1842, describing life as a student in early Oberlin and as the wife of an abolitionist minister in Illinois; an eight-page typescript of a notebook written by Elizabeth...
Dates:
1819-1962; Other: Date acquired: 1967 November 2
Found in:
Oberlin College Archives