Diaries
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 96 Collections and/or Records:
Carlos A. Kenaston Papers
Collection
Identifier: RG 30-016
Scope and Contents
The Carlos A. Kenaston Papers consist of four (4) record series, and primarily relate to his travels, including maps and four volumes of journals.
Dates:
1862-1897; Other: Date acquired: 1968 June 27
Found in:
Oberlin College Archives
Charles Grandison Finney Presidential Papers
Collection
Identifier: RG 02-002
Scope and Contents
The Finney papers are organized into the following record series, arranged to facilitate access to the collection's index and calendar: I. Correspondence, Incoming (calendared); II. Correspondence, Incoming and Outgoing (uncalendared); III. Miscellaneous Manuscripts; IV. Diaries and Commonplace book; V. Lectures; VI. Sermon Outlines; VII. Business Papers of Finney; VIII. Writings of Finney (Ms.); IX. Writings of Finney (Printed); and X. Late Accretions. Series II, Correspondence...
Dates:
1814-1991, undated; Other: Date acquired: 1966 October 10
Found in:
Oberlin College Archives
Charles Royce Comings Papers
Collection
Identifier: RG 30-433
Scope and Contents
The papers of Charles Royce Comings primarily document his military service with Company G, 22nd United States Infantry during the Spanish-American War and the Philippine-American War.he Charles Royce Comings Personal Papers are organized into four series: Series 1. Diaries and Memo Book, Series 2. Documents Related to Military Service, Series 3. Printed Matter, and Series 4. Photographs. An itemized list of materials in Series 3 is available in the case...
Dates:
1897-1945, undated; Other: Date acquired: 2014 November 15
Found in:
Oberlin College Archives
Clarence Ward Collection
Collection
Identifier: RG 30-158
Scope and Contents
The Clarence Ward Collection provides detail on Clarence Ward’s activities as an architectural consultant and on his administration of the Allen Memorial Art Museum. Information also exists here on the debate of the system of faculty governance at Oberlin College. Consisting of correspondence, memoranda, and other printed materials, this collection is organized into ten series.The correspondence and diaries series provide the richest insight into Ward’s personal and professional...
Dates:
ca.1900-1996, undated; Majority of material found in 1929-1987; Other: Date acquired: 1983 May 30
Found in:
Oberlin College Archives
Curtis Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: RG 30-059
Abstract
The Curtis family papers document Howard Cone Curtis’s position as a physical education instructor at Oberlin College through correspondence received between the years of 1915-19. Mary Long Goldsbury’s time at Oberlin College is chronicled through her 1884 diary. The collection also contains correspondence as well as printed matter documenting missionary work of members of the Curtis family.
Dates:
1842-1919, undated; Other: Date acquired: 10/01/1971
Found in:
Oberlin College Archives
Dan Beach Bradley Papers
Collection
Identifier: RG 30-005
Scope and Contents
The family papers of Dan Beach Bradley consist of letters, letterpress books, diaries, diary transcripts, journals, notebooks, writings, photographs, and a painting. The bulk of the papers document the missionary careers of the Rev. Dan Beach Bradley (1804-73) and his first wife, Emilie Royce Bradley (1811-45) in nineteenth-century Siam (modern Thailand). The collection also includes a small amount of correspondence and writings created by two of their children, Sophia Royce Bradley...
Dates:
1800-1980s; Majority of material found in 1800-1873; Other: Date acquired: 1971 March 23
Found in:
Oberlin College Archives
Delavan Levant Leonard Papers
Collection
Identifier: RG 30-223
Scope and Contents
The papers of Delavan Levant Leonard provide an outline of the life of a college and seminary trained minister working in the Midwest as a struggling young minister in the 1870s, and in the developing American West during the 1880s. Leonard's work in the West was conducted under the auspices of the American Home Missionary Society, for whom he served as superintendent of Home Missions for Utah, Idaho, Montana, and western Wyoming. Based in Utah, Leonard observed the Mormon community and...
Dates:
1834-1917, undated; Other: Date acquired: 1975 September 5
Found in:
Oberlin College Archives
Diary of Mary "Mollie" A. Hezlep Jones, 1868 (Copy), ca. 1987, Accession: 1987
Item — Box 2
Scope and Contents
Mary “Mollie” A. Hezlep Jones’ diary exists in the Oberlin College Archives as a photocopy with transcriptions and other notes written by Jane Barrell, an alumna of Stony Brook University. Barrell purchased the diary in Sag Harbor, New York, in 1968 and used it for an independent research project before donating scanned pages of the book, along with copies of biographical research done at the Trumbull County Historical Society, to the Oberlin College Archives. The diary includes...
Dates:
ca. 1987; Other: Accession: 1987
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
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