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:
Donald M. Love Papers
Collection
Identifier: RG 30-091
Scope and Contents
The personal papers of Donald M. Love are divided into thirteen series and span 1868-1974. Love's papers document his activities as a college administrator, writer, and teacher, as well as a civic leader and traveler. The most significant records are his talks and writings. The series of largely incoming correspondence, while equal in volume to Love's writings, provides minimal details about Love's personal or professional activities. Files include exchanges with President Carr over the...
Dates:
1868-1974; Majority of material found in 1912-1974; Other: Date acquired: 06/17/1975
Found in:
Oberlin College Archives
Donald Storrs King Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: RG 30-339
Scope and Contents
The papers of Donald Storrs King and associated family members primarily concerns the life and medical career of Donald S. King. It also includes small amounts of material on Edgar Weld King, Donald’s brother; Ruth Coates Roush, the niece of Julia Coates King and former Oberlin President Henry Churchill King; Charles Barker King, grandson of H.C. King and son of Harold Lee and Hazel Barker King of Oberlin; and Violet Petty, a housekeeper for many years for the Henry Churchill King family in...
Dates:
1889 - 1964; Majority of material found in 1918-1955
Found in:
Oberlin College Archives
Dorothy Hedden Boyd Papers
Collection
Identifier: RG 30-203
Scope and Contents
The papers of Dorothy Hedden Boyd consist primarily of correspondence between Dorothy and her mother, Nellie Hedden, while Dorothy was a student at Oberlin College from 1921 to 1925. The papers also include a small amount of correspondence with other family members and her friends, miscellaneous papers of Dorothy Hedden Boyd and Nellie Hedden, and photographs of family members, Dorothy's wedding, and homes.
Dates:
1903-1945, undated; Majority of material found in 1921-1927; Other: Date acquired: 1989 August 25
Found in:
Oberlin College Archives
Dorothy Lloyd Donaldson Papers
Collection
Identifier: RG 30-442
Scope and Contents
The small collection of letters, postcards and diary transcriptions were written by or to Dorothy Lloyd (Donaldson), documenting her time as a teacher at the North China American School in Beijing, China from 1925-27. In that capacity she taught the children of missionaries serving in China. She sailed to Beijng from San Francisco after graduating from Oberlin College in 1925.The transcribed diary entries and correspondence from August 1925 cover her travel experiences in...
Dates:
1925 - 1927; Other: Date acquired: 2016 January 21
Found in:
Oberlin College Archives
Douglas and Shirley R. Johnson Papers
Collection
Identifier: RG 30-279
Scope and Contents
The papers of Douglas and Shirley R. Johnson document the life and activities of a prominent couple in the public life of Oberlin and Northeast Ohio. The Johnsons are and continue to be deeply involved in local and statewide social concerns, with special emphasis on public right to know and fairness issues. To account for their respective spheres of life, the papers are arranged in two subgroups. Subgroup I consists of files relating to the Johnson’s personal life and work, while Subgroup II...
Dates:
1910 - 2013; Majority of material found in 1940-2005; Other: Date acquired: 1996
Found in:
Oberlin College Archives
Douglas T. Ross Papers
Collection
Identifier: RG 30-261
Scope and Contents
The materials of Douglas T. Ross comprise of correspondence, diagrams, programs, clippings, and several scrapbooks. The bulk of the material is made up of scrapbook pages and clippings. The most significant materials are the clippings in Series 3. Dating from 1940s to the 1960s, the clippings document Ross’ significant contribution to the engineering world, through his creation of the Automatically Programmed Tool (APT) during his time working at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology...
Dates:
1941-1993, undated; Other: Date acquired: 2008 October 14
Found in:
Oberlin College Archives
Dutton Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: RG 30-209
Scope and Contents
The Dutton Family papers document the lives of three generations of the family. The papers span the years Helen Axford Wiley (Dutton) and Philip Drew Dutton studied at Oberlin (ca. 1910-17), their years as missionaries in China and the Philippines (1919-52), and the military service of their son Colonel Thomas Chester Dutton (retired 1970). A substantial portion of this documentation is personal correspondence; however, the papers also include unpublished manuscripts, reports, diaries and...
Dates:
1911-1984, undated; Other: Date acquired: 1989 December 16
Found in:
Oberlin College Archives
E. Louise Appleton Stitt Papers
Collection
Identifier: RG 30-403
Dates:
1908-1996, undated; Other: Majority of material found in 1908-1914; Other: Date acquired: 2009 November 2
Found in:
Oberlin College Archives
E. Michael Hoffman Papers
Collection
Identifier: RG 30-069
Scope and Contents
The E. Michael Hoffman Papers consist primarily of correspondence and photographs taken by Hoffman while he was in Japan and Manchuria with the Young Men’s Christian Association (YMCA) from 1918 to 1920. Hoffman served in Yokohama, Japan, from November 1918 until February 1919, and then in Harbin, Manchuria until March 1920.The heart of the papers, from 1918 to 1926, consists of about eighty letters written by Hoffman generally from Harbin and mainly to his family as well as...
Dates:
1912, 1918-1975, undated; Other: Date acquired: 11/20/1972
Found in:
Oberlin College Archives
Eddy Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: RG 30-108
Abstract
These are primarily financial and legal papers of the Eddys, a pioneering family in Camden Township, Lorain County, Ohio. Fifty‑six items cover the family's period as farmers in western New York State in the area called the Holland Land Purchase (1805‑1830). John Eddy (1766‑1842) was then the head of the family. These items include two deeds (1816, 1817) to land in Genesee County, New York; a Sheldon, N.Y., school tax bill (1820); and a notice (1829) to quit the...
Dates:
1805 - 1919; Other: Date acquired: 06/30/1977
Found in:
Oberlin College Archives