letters (correspondence)
Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Pieces of correspondence that are somewhat more formal than memoranda or notes, usually on paper and delivered.
Found in 393 Collections and/or Records:
Toby J. McIntosh Papers
Collection
Identifier: RG 30-149
Scope and Contents
The Toby J. McIntosh Papers comprise copies of documents from Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) files kept on Oberlin College student political activities in the 1960s and 1970s, and a small amount of related materials including an article on government surveillance at Oberlin written by Toby McIntosh for the March/April 1978 issue of the Oberlin Alumni Magazine.The first folder contains a 1978 letter from an agent in the FBI to Toby McIntosh...
Dates:
1960-1981, undated; Majority of material found in 1960-1975; Other: Date acquired: 11/19/1981
Found in:
Oberlin College Archives
Various College-Wide Committee Records
Collection
Identifier: RG 33
Scope and Contents
Consists of committee files received from a variety of sources. Generally these are records kept by faculty members during service on various college or faculty committees. For example, most of the files for the Standing Committee on Pluralism and Equality were transferred from the William P. Norris Papers.Miscellaneous committee files (A-Z), largely up to 1961 (some single items dated to 1972), are to be found in Box 1. The arrangement is alphabetical. Boxes 2-99 contain the...
Dates:
1912-Present, undated
Found in:
Oberlin College Archives
Victor Obenhaus Papers
Collection
Identifier: RG 30-391
Scope and Contents
The papers of Victor Obenhaus comprise fifty-eight letters concerning the careers and families of Victor Obenhaus and Erwin N. Griswold, and the Oberlin College Class of 1925. Obenhaus was a member of the Oberlin College Board of Trustees, as was Erwin N. Griswold, his college roommate at Oberlin. This collection includes letters sent to and received by Erwin N. Griswold, whose papers are also held by the Oberlin College Archives (RG 30/101). Griswold was also the U.S. Solicitor General from...
Dates:
1930 - 1985
Found in:
Oberlin College Archives
Walter King Bailey Papers
Collection
Identifier: RG 30-106
Scope and Contents
The papers of Walter King Bailey document his activities—particularly athletic ones—while a student at Oberlin College and his involvement in development issues during his tenure as a trustee of the College later in his career. His letters include reference to the 1916 controversy involving a Greek fraternity. Several letters also relate conversations with Irvin Houck and address the controversy surrounding the naming of Carr Pool. These letters demonstrate the depth of involvement Bailey...
Dates:
1914 - 1996; Majority of material found in 1914-1919; Other: Date acquired: 06/29/1977
Found in:
Oberlin College Archives
Walter L. Hopkins Papers
Collection
Identifier: RG 30-220
Scope and Contents
The Walter Leland Hopkins papers document his service with the United States Army Ambulance Service during World War I. This period of service from 1917 to 1919 is the only period documented in the records. Little is known about his life prior to or after joining the ambulance service. Hopkins served with the Princeton University Ambulance Section, 523. The papers consist of correspondence, photographs and ephemera collected by Hopkins.The richest source material is found in the...
Dates:
1917-1919; Other: Date acquired: 1971 January 1
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
Wattles Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: RG 30-273
Abstract
The Wattles Family Papers relate primarily to the lives of Theano Wattles and Esther Whinery Wattles. There are also materials related to Lucretia Celestia Wattles and Harmonia Wattles Woodford. The collection has been subdivided into four record series.
Dates:
1860-1953, undated; Other: Acquired 1969 March 27
Found in:
Oberlin College Archives
Wendell P. Russell Jr. Papers
Collection
Identifier: RG 30-272
Scope and Contents
The Wendell P. Russell Papers cover the period of his undergraduate career at Oberlin College, in which he was a key member of committees and organizations for Black Studies and the reevaluation of education at Oberlin, and as a research assistant for a Black Studies Seminar for program directors funded by the Ford Foundation.The bulk of the collection, in Series 4, documents the Black Studies Seminar held in Aspen, Colorado July 19-25, 1970. The Seminar was organized by the...
Dates:
1964 - 1971; Other: Date acquired: 1996 May 25
Found in:
Oberlin College Archives
Werner H. Bromund Papers
Collection
Identifier: RG 30-087
Scope and Contents
The papers of Werner H. Bromund primarily document Werner Bromund’s role as historian of the Chemistry Department of Oberlin College. His collected works and materials concerning Frank Fanning Jewett and publications of the Chemistry Department illustrate some of the rich history of the department. Photographs of Charles Martin Hall and Frank Fanning Jewett are included in this collection. Bromund was also interested in the City of Oberlin water supply and he wrote and collected reports...
Dates:
1875-2000; Other: Majority of material found in 1875-1948; Other: Date acquired: 05/23/1975
Found in:
Oberlin College Archives
Wesley Frost Papers
Collection — 8 boxes
Identifier: RG 30-030
Abstract
The papers of Wesley Frost unevenly document his thirty-two-year career (1912-44) in the U.S. Foreign Service and Department of State. A more complete record of Frost's ambassadorial service is held among the Department of State Records at the National Archives, Record Group 59, Decimal File 834.00 through 834.99.
Dates:
1884-1944; Other: Date acquired: 1969 April 17
Found in:
Oberlin College Archives