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printed ephemera

 Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Printed works that are created to meet an array of immediate needs, usually transitory in nature not intended to be saved. Examples could be broadsides, posters, leaflets, pamphlets, programs, postcards, tradecards, labels, tickets, handbills, sale notices, and valentines.

Found in 143 Collections and/or Records:

James W. Holton Papers

 Collection
Identifier: RG 30-041
Scope and Contents The papers of James Wilber Holton consist primarily of letters between Holton and his mother, and letters written by Holton to his wife Alice H. (Renik) Holton. The contents of the letters include Oberlin events, financial concerns, temperance activities, music, and Holton's travels in the midwest. A small amount of letters between Mrs. M.L. Shumway and Mrs. R. B. Holton are also included. Series 2 contains a journal of Mrs. R. B. Holton (minutes of the Oberlin Beneficial Society, 1890-91;...
Dates: 1860s-1913, undated; Other: Date acquired: 03/27/1969

Jan Allyson Cooper Papers

 Collection
Identifier: RG 30-360
Scope and Contents The papers of Jan Cooper predominantly comprised files from her work on the Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual Concerns Committee (LGBCC), and the Oberlin Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual Alumni (LGBA, later Oberlin Lambda Alumni) group of the Alumni Association. Those files were transferred to the respective record groups: Various College-Wide Committees, and the Alumni Association. One somewhat informal LGBCC report was kept in this collection in Series 4. Queer Studies Survey.The materials in...
Dates: 1979-1997, undated; Other: Date acquired: 1997 November 6

Jean Brown McAllister Papers

 Collection
Identifier: RG 30-452
Scope and Contents The Jean Brown McAllister Papers is a small collection, covering her years as an Oberlin student (1938-1942), coinciding with the years leading up to and including the early years of U.S. involvement in World War II. The letters written by Brown to her family in Series 1 represent the bulk of the collection. Undated letters were inscribed with postmark dates from envelopes by Archives staff. They reveal student life and its rituals and customs at Oberlin at the time. Early In her...
Dates: 1938-1942, undated; Other: Date acquired: 2018 July 12

Jessie Trefethen Papers

 Collection
Identifier: RG 30-227
Scope and Contents The papers of Jessie Trefethen document her twenty-one years of teaching practical art at Oberlin College, her career as a water artist, her views on the teaching of art at Oberlin College, and her personal history in the last few years before her death in 1978. Except from one letter from Trefethen to her mother, there is essentially no information about her family, or her life before coming to Oberlin.The collection is organized into four record series: I. Biographical Files;...
Dates: 1925-1975, undated; Other: Date acquired: 1981 June 17

Joe Blitman Papers

 Collection
Identifier: RG 30-090
Scope and Contents These papers reflect Joe Blitman’s participation and interest in student politics and activism, 1967-71, while a student at Oberlin College. Archives staff printed out thirty-six articles that concern or are authored by Blitman from the Oberlin Review, 1969-71, mainly concerning student politics, anti-Vietnam War activism, and film critique. This constitutes the last folder in the collection. In addition to papers, Blitman...
Dates: 1966-1971; Other: Date acquired: 12/01/1975

Joe Hickerson Papers

 Collection
Identifier: RG 30-453
Scope and Contents Joe Hickerson, with the help of an assistant, arranged and described his papers prior to transferring them to the Archives, with the inclusion of an item-level inventory (available upon request). It appears that this arrangement was at some point amended or disturbed. Thus Hickerson’s inventory will not always reflect the actual contents of a given series. Only minor changes to the original arrangement were made for clarity. The few photographs were kept with the related textual material...
Dates: 1953-2018, undated; Other: Date acquired: 2018 July 25

John Frederick Oberlin Collection

 Collection
Identifier: RG 30-165
Abstract

The John Frederick Oberlin Collection contains items created by J. F. Oberlin and his contemporaries, gifts to Oberlin College relating to J. F. Oberlin, correspondence, writings and addresses about J. F. Oberlin, as well as lithographs, engravings and drawings.

Dates: 1766-2013, undated; Other: Date acquired: 1970 May 25

John G. Olmstead Family Papers

 Collection — 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

John M. Ellis Papers

 Collection
Identifier: RG 30-345
Scope and Contents The John Millot Ellis papers consist of a modest amount of material but it covers a good portion of his life. There is little biographical information, but an obituary offers a good summary of his career and community service.  Miscellaneous photographs and college pamphlets chronicle some of Ellis's leisure and family activity. A genealogical chart, compiled by a family in 2002, is included. Six of Ellis's notebooks record his instruction of Rhetoric and Greek from 1851 to 1896. One folder...
Dates: 1852-1945, undated; Other: Date acquired: 2002 March 25

John Pearson Collection

 Collection
Identifier: RG 30-312
Scope and Contents

The John Pearson Collection is a small one, comprised of the artist’s posters, exhibition catalogs and announcement cards, and a small amount of writings by and about him.

Dates: 1976-2002, undated; Other: Date acquired: 1995