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Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 96 Collections and/or Records:
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
Willard Livingstone Beard Papers
Collection
Identifier: RG 30-076
Scope and Contents
The Willard Livingstone Beard Papers consists primarily of letters (1910-1925) between the Willard and Ellen Beard and their children. Of special interest are the twenty letters written by Willard L. Beard and his daughter, Phebe, from Foochow, China (1921-23), some of which tell of the struggle between factions of the Chinese to gain control of the area. A letter from Myron Gould Beard to “Dearest Sister Dot” (Dorothy), dated June 29, 1920, is an account of his visit to Bahia Blanca,...
Dates:
1904-1925, undated; Other: Date acquired: 06/22/1973
Found in:
Oberlin College Archives
William C. Cochran Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: RG 30-008
Scope and Contents
The papers of the Cochran Family primarily consist of correspondence, family records, photographs, research files, and writings. The corpus of the collection is formed around William C. Cochran (1848-1936), who organized files relating to the Cochran family and who personally collected historical research files used to support his writing. The bulk of the series material is related to William C. Cochran and his immediate family. Included is documentation on the life and time of his natural...
Dates:
1839-1936; Other: Date acquired: 1967 October 12
Found in:
Oberlin College Archives
William Hayden Boyers Papers
Collection
Identifier: RG 30-056
Scope and Contents
The William Hayden Boyers papers primarily document Boyers’s work as a theatre director. A majority of the records relate to his work as director and faculty advisor of the Oberlin College Gilbert and Sullivan Players, an organization that he founded in 1949. After his retirement from Oberlin College, Boyers served on the faculty of Saint Paul’s Episcopal College in Lawrenceville, Virginia. The collection contains correspondence, a class syllabus, several programs, and a series of slides...
Dates:
1944-1982, undated; Majority of material found in 1950-1972; Other: Date acquired: 08/09/1971
Found in:
Oberlin College Archives
William K. Farquhar Papers
Collection
Identifier: RG 30-380
Scope and Contents
The papers were arranged by William K. Farquhar into three groupings: Series I. Correspondence during Military Service in World War II, 1943-1946; Series II. Memoir of Military Service during World War II, 1945-1946, 1996 (in four binders); and Series III. Additional Materials, 1944-1946, 1984, 2005-2006, undated.
Dates:
1943-2006, undated; Other: Majority of material found in 1943-1946; Other: Date acquired: 2006 January 31
Found in:
Oberlin College Archives
William Willis Curtis Papers
Collection
Identifier: RG 30-071
Scope and Contents
The papers of William Willis Curtis consist mainly of diaries, notebooks, and correspondence. The diaries and notebooks contain a partial record of events, accounts, and miscellany of which most was kept during the period in Japan, mainly Osaka, Sendai, and Sapporo. Series VII and Series XI contain records related to missionary work in Japan. Curtis was involved in operating boys’ schools and, in the 1890s, he worked in prisons. After 1900, the family letters in Series V. Letters and...
Dates:
1826-1968, undated; Majority of material found within 1863 - 1913; Other: Date acquired: 04/19/1973
Found in:
Oberlin College Archives