Photographs
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 96 Collections and/or Records:
Photographs: Graduates and Former Students
Collection
Identifier: RG 32-003-001
Scope and Contents
The photographs of graduates and former students are arranged in two series. A third series holds photographs of Oberlin community members associated in some way with the college.Loose photographs of graduates and former college students in Series 1, Subseries 1 are arranged chronologically by graduating class, beginning with 1836. Files include photographs taken while students attended Oberlin and after they left. Many of the latter were taken during class reunions. Some...
Dates:
1836 to Present; Other: Date acquired: 1966
Found in:
Oberlin College Archives
Photographs: Oversize Prints
Collection
Identifier: RG 32-010
Scope and Contents
Photographs: Oversize Prints is an artificial classification for prints larger than legal paper size (8.5 x 14”). These prints, if smaller than oversize, would have been relegated to the subject classifications used for smaller photographs such as portraits, buildings, and so on. A wide range of subject matter and types of images fall into this group. The physical sizes of the prints determined the way in which they were boxed.When this group of photographs was first organized...
Dates:
1868-1993, undated; Other: Date acquired: 1966
Found in:
Oberlin College Archives
Photographs: Presidents, Faculty, Staff, Trustees, Honorary Degree Recipients, and Others
Collection
Identifier: RG 32-003-002
Scope and Contents
Like the record group for graduate and former students, this group holds portraits dating from the earliest years of photography to the present. However, the earliest images are print copies of daguerreoptypes and other cased images, the originals of which are held in a separate record group (RG 32/3/4). The photographs are arranged into three series: 1. Faculty, Staff, Trustees, and Honorary Degree Recipients; 2. Presidents; and, 3. Other Individuals. Contents of Series 1 and 3 are arranged...
Dates:
1830s to Present; Other: Date acquired: 1966
Found in:
Oberlin College Archives
Photographs: View Books and Other Publications
Collection
Identifier: RG 32-012
Scope and Contents
This photograph group includes five Oberlin College viewbooks dating from 1911 through 1922. In Series 1, this record group also includes College-published calendars, programs, and books ranging in date from about 1900 through 2015. In Series two, there are loose photogrpahs and books dating from 1888 through 1976.
Dates:
1888-2015; Majority of material found in 1888-1925
Found in:
Oberlin College Archives
Psychology Department
Collection
Identifier: RG 09-002
Scope and Contents
The Psychology Department records relate to departmental activities between 1910 and 1978. The collection includes incformation about alumni, theses and papers, and photographs.
Dates:
1910-1978, undated; Other: Date acquired: 1985 April 10
Found in:
Oberlin College Archives
Richard E. Spear Papers
Collection
Identifier: RG 30-305
Scope and Contents
The Richard E. Spear Papers document his career as an art historian, scholar, and professor at Oberlin College and Conservatory, and his work as the former Director of the Allen Memorial Art Museum. The bulk of the collection is made up of published writings, course materials, lectures, speeches, and professional correspondence. These materials span Spear’s career as an art historian, beginning with his undergraduate education in the late 1950s and ending in 2018, eighteen years after his...
Dates:
1953 - 2018; Other: Date acquired: 1998 August 6
Found in:
Oberlin College Archives
Richard Lothrop Papers
Collection
Identifier: RG 30-293
Scope and Contents
The Richard Lothrop Papers document Oberlin’s history in the later 20th Century through his writings, his service on the Oberlin City Council, and his relationships with the Oberlin College Librarian, the Archivist, family and friends, on and off campus.The writings include copies of Lothrop’s “Elm Street Thoughts” column written from the 1970s until 2003, and his “History of the Oberlin College Library,” a student publication (1967). Other materials include Oberlin City Council...
Dates:
1934-2005, undated; Other: Date acquired: 1998 March 2
Found in:
Oberlin College Archives
Robert E. Neil Papers
Collection
Identifier: RG 30-457
Scope and Contents
The Robert E. Neil Papers are arranged in six series.
Dates:
1783-1988, undated; Other: Majority of material found in 1956-1988; Other: Date acquired: 01/10/2012
Found in:
Oberlin College Archives
Robert S. Fletcher Papers
Collection
Identifier: RG 30-024
Abstract
The Fletcher papers reflect Robert S. Fletcher's interest in the history of Oberlin College, an institution located in the Connecticut Western Reserve, and his interest in the history of the trans-Mississippi West.
Dates:
1816-1958; Other: Date acquired: 12/03/1968
Found in:
Oberlin College Archives
Robert Wayne Wheeler Papers
Collection
Identifier: RG 30-201
Scope and Contents
The Robert W. Wheeler Papers comprise biographical materials, correspondence, materials from Wheeler’s time at Oberlin College and Harvard Law School, and two photographs. The small collection is not divided into series. The bulk of the collection consists of legal briefs written for Harvard’s Ames Moot Court Competition from 1924 to 1926. Wheeler’s success in the competition resulted in his winning the most prestigious award bestowed upon law students at Harvard. Other materials include two...
Dates:
ca. 1920-1971; Majority of material found in 1921-1928; Other: Date acquired: 1989 July 12
Found in:
Oberlin College Archives