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Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Found in 94 Collections and/or Records:
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
Department of Art Records
Collection
Identifier: RG 09-028
Scope and Contents
This collection contains records of the Oberlin College Department of Art. It has been organized into six subgroups: Administrative Files, Degree Programs, Special Programs, Non-Textual Materials, Exhibitions and Publications, and Personnel Files. Each subgroup has been further subdivided into series.
Dates:
early 20th century - 2014 ; Other: Date acquired: 00/00/1995
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
Douglas V. Steere Papers
Collection
Identifier: RG 30-318
Abstract
The materials in the Douglas V. Steere Papers have exclusively to do with his interest in and study of John Frederick (Jean-Frédéric or Johann Friedrich) Oberlin (1740-1826), the Alsatian pastor who served in the Ban de la Roche region in the Vosges Mountains of Alsace in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. Steere visited Oberlin’s pastorate in the years following World War II, when he was involved in recovery efforts by the American...
Dates:
1910-1976, undated; Other: Date acquired: 1999 June 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...
Dates:
1911-1984, undated; Other: Date acquired: 1989 December 16
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
Elam Jewett Comings Papers
Collection
Identifier: RG 30-052
Scope and Contents
The papers of Elam J. Comings include correspondence, writings, miscellaneous family papers, and photographs. The bulk of the collection consists of the correspondence of Elam J. Comings to his family, written while a student at Oberlin College (1836-41) and while serving pastorates in Ohio (1842-43, 1853-60), Vermont (1845-48), and Massachusetts (1848-53). Topics covered in the Oberlin correspondence include the preaching of Asa Mahan (1799-1889) and Charles Grandison Finney (1792-1875),...
Dates:
1834-94, 1904-36, undated; Majority of material found within 1834 - 1907; Other: Date acquired: 02/08/1971
Found in:
Oberlin College Archives
Eleanor Gould Packard Papers
Collection
Identifier: RG 30-447
Scope and Contents
The Eleanor Gould Packard papers document her early childhood and college academic achievements and experiences. The materials demonstrate Packard’s early aptitude for writing and research, which eventually lead to her lifelong career in editing.
The majority of the collection is made up of primary and secondary academic materials, such as academic awards and honors, class assignments and notes, essays, school projects, and yearbooks. An example of Packard’s early grasp of the...
Dates:
1920-1981, undated; Other: Date acquired: 2015 August 21
Found in:
Oberlin College Archives
Elliott F. Grabill Papers
Collection
Identifier: RG 30-043
Scope and Contents
The papers of Elliott F. Grabill consist mainly of letters sent by Grabill (December, 1863-1865) to Anna S. Jenney, whom he would marry in March of 1865. Grabill expressed himself well on such matters as schools for contraband, relations with other officers, regard for black troops, troop dispositions including their transport by water, the siege of Petersburg, descriptions of battle, the wounding of Colonel Giles W. Shurtleff, exchange of papers with a Confederate soldier, a tour of four...
Dates:
1859 - 1910; Majority of material found in 1862-1868; Other: Date acquired: 02/18/1970
Found in:
Oberlin College Archives
Ellsworth C. Carlson Papers
Collection
Identifier: RG 30-176
Abstract
The papers of Ellsworth C. Carlson document his undergraduate days at Oberlin College, his years as an Oberlin Shansi Memorial Association representative to China and Shansi board member, his professional contributions as a faculty exchange member, and his special interest in East Asian History.
Dates:
1935-2012, undated; Other: Date acquired: 00/00/1985
Found in:
Oberlin College Archives