digital photographs

Scope and Contents College Green Publishing Ltd. (London, U.K.) creates custom-designed, oversize books for colleges and universities on their history and identity, working in collaboration with archives and other college offices. From College Green’s website: In 2009, College Green approached Oberlin College with a conceptual project to create an entirely new memento of college life. Oberlin College is one of America's most prestigious liberal arts colleges with a...

Abstract The collection in the Archives’ Oberlin Folk Music and The Cat in the Cream Coffeehouse Recordings comprises original reel-to-reel tapes dating from 1955-1977 and duplicate CDs of the Conservatory Library’s Folk Music Archive. Additional materials unique to the Archives’ collection include audio, video and photographic records of Spring Folkfest performances from 1997-2017 (2014-2017 is more complete). While there are numerous Folk Music Club and Spring Folkfest recordings taken at the...

Scope and Contents The Oberlin LIASE collection documents faculty and student activities funded by a grant from the Luce Initiative on Asian Studies and the Environment from 2016 to 2022. The materials are arranged in three series: Series 1. Program Files, Luce Initiative on Asian Studies and the Environment (LIASE), Exploration and Implementation Grants; Series 2. Non-textual Materials and Posters; and Series 3. Books. Series 1 includes correspondence with the grant project partners; files...

Scope and Contents Photographic images of buildings, monuments and places on campus, on paper of legal size and smaller, fill this category; it also includes born digital images.  Nearly all of the buildings represented are college buildings; the exceptions are a few early Oberlin churches. The monuments represented are college-owned, with some exceptions. Places constitute the Arboretum, a large natural area with a reservoir, and Tappan Square, now devoid of buildings but which once served as the site of...

Scope and Contents This grouping, arranged by subject, holds the largest numbers of photographic prints in the Oberlin College Archives. The bulk of them are 8” x 10” or smaller, and are stored vertically in file cabinet drawers. Older, more fragile prints are stored separately in records cartons and require more careful handling. The subject headings were locally derived and do not adhere to any controlled vocabulary. The older prints, dating from the 1850s to the later 1910s, were produced by...

Scope and Contents The Jewish Life collection documents various aspects of Jewish student life at Oberlin. The majority of the materials are from various Jewish student groups and publications, Kosher Halal Cooperative (founded originally as Kosher Cooperative), the Judaic and Near Eastern Studies (JNES) Department, and Hebrew House. There are also smaller amounts of religious materials, materials concerning interfaith/intergroup work and the role of non-profit organizations, and discourse surrounding...

Scope and Contents The William P. Norris Papers reflect his long career as a professor of sociology at Oberlin College from 1978 to 2008. Beginning with his Peace Corps work in Bahia, Brazil, Norris was deeply engaged with issues of poverty, housing, and economic structures in Brazil, Pittsburgh, and Lorain, Ohio. This is reflected in his writings, talks, professional papers, research project files, and course files. His research files on LGBT issues reflect his activism and advocacy, but his Oberlin...