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 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 32 Collections and/or Records:

Albert H. Johnson Papers

 Collection — 13 boxes
Identifier: RG 30-378
Scope and Contents The Papers of Albert H. Johnson Papers primarily document his professional career as an Oberlin banker and president of the Oberlin Gas Lighting Company (later the Oberlin Gas & Electric Company) and president of the Arkansas Midland Railroad Company.  Johnson participated in several Oberlin business related projects, including the construction of the gas-holding building located on South Main Street. The correspondence received by Albert H. Johnson from various businesses, such as...
Dates: 1822-2010, undated; Other: Majority of material found in 1853-1925; Other: Date acquired: 03/24/2005

Alice Jones Emery Papers

 Collection
Identifier: RG 30-355
Scope and Contents The Alice Jones Emery Papers primarily consists of materials relating to Emery’s position as Class Agent for the Oberlin College Class of 1891. The correspondence series, which constitutes the bulk of the collection, contains letters received from former classmates in response to Alice Jones Emery’s requests for individual class letters. Spanning a period of over twenty years, these letters handsomely document the warm friendship and spirit retained by Oberlin College graduates...
Dates: 1931-1955, undated; Other: Date acquired: 1971 January 21

American Association of University Women, Oberlin Branch Records

 Collection
Identifier: RG 31-006-021
Scope and Contents The group is organized around twelve records series: Series 1. Constitutions and Bylaws; 2. Annual Reports and Financial Records; 3. Minutes; 4. Correspondence; 5. Membership; 6. History; 7. Program Booklets; 8. Publications; 9. Events/Special Projects; 10. Clippings; 11. National and State Publications; and 12. Certificates.  Topics covered include national and state conventions, AAUW fellowships, the yearly tea for Oberlin College senior women, the moving-picture improvement campaign,...
Dates: 1914-2012, undated

Botany Department Records

 Collection
Identifier: RG 09-015
Scope and Contents Records relating to the early history of the Botany Department consist of account books, faculty files and grade books, student files and papers, and other miscellaneous writings and materials. This record group is arranged into nine series : I. Account Books ; II. Faculty Files; III. Grade Books ; IV. Miscellaneous Files; V. Miscellaneous Printed Materials; VI. Student Files; VII. Student Papers; VIII. Herbarium, further divided into two subseries: 1. Correspondence; 2. General Files,...
Dates: 1846-1988, undated; Majority of material found in 1874-1980; Other: Date acquired: 12/11/1981

Carleton Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: RG 30-385
Scope and Contents The Carleton Family Papers primarily document the life and career of Alford Carleton as a missionary, teacher, minister, college president, and observer of the cultural and political climate in the environs of the Middle and Near East. During his time abroad (mostly in Syria, Turkey, and present-day Lebanon) Carleton wrote hundreds of letters to family members, friends, and colleagues. Of great historic value are his first-hand accounts of the region’s unrest due to the repeated...
Dates: 1808-1985, undated; Other: Majority of material found in 1853-1973; Other: Date acquired: 2006 June 23

Department of Education Records

 Collection
Identifier: RG 09-004
Scope and Contents The records of the Department of Education, 1909(1958-78)-1979, mainly document the department's administrative activities during its final twenty years of operation, especially its training and evaluation of student teachers. Records dating from the period prior to 1958 include one foot of correspondence files (1909-14) of Edward A. Miller (1866-1958), Professor and Head of the Department of Pedagogy (1903-07) and the first to hold the title Professor of Education (1907-31). These files...
Dates: 1909 - 1979; Majority of material found within 1958 - 1978; Other: Date acquired: 07/06/1967

Donald M. Love Papers

 Collection
Identifier: RG 30-091
Scope and Contents The personal papers of Donald M. Love are divided into thirteen series: I. Address Books; II. Appointment Books; III. Committee Files; IV. Correspondence; V. Teaching Files; VI. Writings and Talks; VII. Community Service Files; VIII. Tour Guide Files; IX. Student Files; X. Photographs; XI. Miscellaneous Historical Files; Miscellaneous Printed Matter (Late Accretion); and, XIII. Awards and Honors. Love's papers document his activities as a college administrator, writer, and...
Dates: 1868-1974; Majority of material found in 1912-1974; Other: Date acquired: 06/17/1975

Donald Storrs King Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: RG 30-339
Scope and Contents The papers of Donald Storrs King and associated family members primarily concerns  the life and medical career of Donald S. King. It also includes small amounts of material on Edgar Weld King, Donald’s brother; Ruth Coates Roush, the niece of Julia Coates King and former Oberlin President Henry Churchill King; Charles Barker King, grandson of H.C. King and son of Harold Lee and Hazel Barker King of Oberlin; and Violet Petty, a housekeeper for many years for the Henry Churchill King...
Dates: 1889 - 1964; Majority of material found in 1918-1955

Eddy Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: RG 30-108
Abstract These are primarily financial and legal papers of the Eddys, a pioneering family in Camden Township, Lorain County, Ohio. Fifty‑six items cover the family's period as farmers in western New York State in the area called the Holland Land Purchase (1805‑1830). John Eddy (1766‑1842) was then the head of the family. These items include two deeds (1816, 1817) to land in Genesee County, New York; a Sheldon, N.Y., school tax bill (1820); and a notice (1829) to quit the...
Dates: 1805 - 1919; Other: Date acquired: 06/30/1977

Faculty Club of Oberlin College Records

 Collection
Identifier: RG 22
Scope and Contents

The records consist of minutes of the directors and membership, annual reports, correspondence, financial records (Box 2), printed and duplicated matter, and the like.

Note: Scope and content entry taken from William E. Bigglestone's unpublished "[preliminary] Guide to the Oberlin College Archives," which was prepared as individual entry sheets in a three-ring binder during the early 1980s.

Dates: 1919-1939, undated; Other: Date acquired: 00/00/1980