Account books
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 19 Collections and/or Records:
Julia G. Severance Papers
Collection
Identifier: RG 30-309
Scope and Contents
The Julia G. Severance papers primarily consist of her etchings of notable sites and buildings around the Oberlin College campus. Also included are letters written to friends regarding personal matters. The letters were retained for the additional artwork found on them. The photograph series contains photos of Julia Severance, her studio, and the Severance home in Oberlin, Ohio, as well as a photo album documenting her time in California and various loose photographs. The two scrapbooks...
Dates:
1912-1957, undated; Other: Date acquired: 1999 September 21
Found in:
Oberlin College Archives
Mary Rudd Cochran Papers
Collection
Identifier: RG 30-282
Scope and Contents
The Mary Rudd Cochran papers primarily consist of biographical files, correspondence, financial and property files, professional records, writings files, and photographs. Though the papers cover many activities of her life, the collection mainly documents her private life as a member of an educated, upper middle class family. Her personal files detail life as a child and into adulthood, which focuses much on the Cochran family and their interactions with two other great families of...
Dates:
1882 - 1988; Other: Date acquired: 1995 February 1
Found in:
Oberlin College Archives
Miscellaneous Missionary Records
Collection — 7 boxes
Identifier: RG 38
Scope and Contents
Miscellaneous Missionary Records is a small, artificially assembled record group; however, these records provide valuable evidence of Oberlin’s support for foreign missionaries during the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. Files reflect the involvement of both Oberlin College and the Oberlin community in promoting the mission work of the Congregational Church. Due to their miscellaneous character, these records may best be utilized in conjunction with the personal papers of...
Dates:
1866-1984; Majority of material found in 1884-1938; Other: Date acquired: 05/13/1968
Found in:
Oberlin College Archives
Oberlin Druggists' Records
Collection
Identifier: RG 31-039
Scope and Contents
The Oberlin Druggists' Records date from 1882 through 1955. There are gaps in the records between 1897 and 1906 and 1923 and 1948. The records in this collection primarily consist of accounts, a poison register, and a liquor register.
Dates:
1882-1955; Other: Date acquired: 10/30/1972
Found in:
Oberlin College Archives
Oberlin File
Collection
Identifier: RG 21
Abstract
The Oberlin File is a collection of single items by or about Oberlinians and the College. It is an artificial collection comprised of many small accessions or items transferred without deed of gift.
Dates:
1823-2003, undated
Found in:
Oberlin College Archives
Oberlin Historical and Improvement Organization (O.H.I.O.) Records
Collection
Identifier: RG 31-009
Scope and Contents
This record group, consisting of three subgroups, documents the activities and efforts of Oberlin citizens to improve the town and to preserve its history. The first two subgroups represent the records of the predecessor organizations which merged to form O.H.I.O. in 1964.
Subgroup I contains the records of the Oberlin Village Improvement Society which was extant from 1903 to 1964. Dating from 1909 to 1964, important record series are: constitution and by-laws, 1911-1943;...
Dates:
1903-2005; Majority of material found in 1903-2005, undated; Other: Date acquired: 04/17/1969
Found in:
Oberlin College Archives
Office of the Treasurer Records
Collection
Identifier: RG 07
Scope and Contents
The records of the Treasurer's Office date from 1822 to 1997. They include incoming and outgoing correspondence, bills and receipts, records of student manual labor and teacher pay, student account and scholarship records, files and ledgers documenting gifts and bequests, and financial statements of student organizations. Topics covered in these records include the establishment, organization, and funding of Oberlin College, biographical and financial information on individual...
Dates:
1822 - 1997; Other: Date acquired: 00/00/1967
Found in:
Oberlin College Archives
Student Life: Literary Organizations Records
Collection
Identifier: RG 19-003-004-000
Abstract
This record group holds the records of various Oberlin College literary organizations.
Dates:
1839-2021, undated; Other: Date acquired: 04/16/1974
Found in:
Oberlin College Archives
T.J. Rice Papers
Collection
Identifier: RG 30-297
Scope and Contents
The photographic output of T.J. Rice at Oberlin between 1894 and 1937 can be found throughout the Photographs record group (32), where they were placed after the College received it sometime after 1937 from Andrew J. Stofan, who purchased Rice’s business and all of his negatives and prints.
The only items in the T.J. Rice Papers are two record books in which Rice recorded the names of his clients, the numbers of their orders, and sometimes the amounts received. Record book 1 is...
Dates:
1916-1937, undated
Found in:
Oberlin College Archives