letters (correspondence)
Subject
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Found in 395 Collections and/or Records:
Mary Sheldon Papers
Collection
Identifier: RG 30-200
Scope and Contents
The six folders in this collection consist primarily of Mary Sheldon's composition book, essays detached from the composition book, and other miscellaneous material. The composition book, 1842-1853, includes essays titled "Duties of Students", "The Sabbath", "Women and Politics", "History of the facts relative to the late Illness of our Literary Society" (read August 29, 1849), and "The Circuit Preacher." Essays detached from Sheldon's...
Dates:
1836-1853, undated; Other: Date acquired: 1989 May 18
Found in:
Oberlin College Archives
Maurice P. Kessler Collection in Honor of Albert Schweitzer Papers
Collection
Identifier: RG 30-344
Scope and Contents
The Maurice P. Kessler Collection in Honor of Albert Schweitzer papers consist of materials related to the life and professional career of Kessler himself, as well as materials pertaining to the career of Albert Schweitzer. The biographical and correspondence files, which include records of immigration, letters to and from Kessler, as well as programs from several of his performances, shed light on Kessler’s career and his time at Oberlin. The bulk of the collection, however, is...
Dates:
1927 - 1971; Other: Date acquired: 2002 February 7
Found in:
Oberlin College Archives
Maylon Harold Hepp Papers
Collection
Identifier: RG 30-437
Scope and Contents
The Maylon Harold Hepp Papers consist almost exclusively of correspondence written by Maylon, under the name Harold, to his family. The letters were written between 1930 and 1933, while Hepp was a student at Oberlin. This collection is small, but provides a rich, and often humorous view of college life in the early 1930s. Hepp included drawings, dance cards, hand drawn maps of his dorm rooms and of Chance Creek, report cards, graded papers, and exam schedules in his letters, which provide...
Dates:
1930 - 1933; Other: Date acquired: 2015 May 26
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
Nancy Hays Teeters Papers
Collection
Identifier: RG 30-169
Scope and Contents
The papers of Nancy Hays Teeters (1930-), spanning four decades, document the development of Teeters' career as a fiscal economist from professional staffer and research scholar (1957-78) to member of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (1978-84), a Presidential appointment. She concluded her career as IBM's Director of Economics (1984-90) and Vice President (1986-90). Although the papers are largely professional in nature, providing little information about Teeters'...
Dates:
1950 - 1990; Majority of material found within 1960 - 1990; Other: Date acquired: 1984 June 27
Found in:
Oberlin College Archives
Nancy J. Pendleton Papers
Collection
Identifier: RG 30-362
Scope and Contents
The research materials of Nancy J. Pendleton comprise correspondence, photographs, research copies of documents, and maps. The bulk of the material is made up of research files used for Pendleton’s self-published 1997 book, Early Clintonville (and Grove City) and the Bull and Smith Families. These documents focus on the Bull and Smith families of Clintonville and Grove City, Ohio, and the state of Ohio at large. The collection spans back to 1814, with...
Dates:
1814-1998, undated; Other: Date acquired: 2003 May 21
Found in:
Oberlin College Archives
Nancy Schrom Dye Presidential Papers
Collection
Identifier: RG 02-013
Scope and Contents
The Nancy S. Dye presidential papers (1948 (1994-2007)–2007) cover the thirteen-year tenure of Oberlin College’s first woman president. Broadly, the official records document administrative actions and decisions made by Dye and her senior staff, with an emphasis on cultivating and developing the college’s relationships locally, regionally, nationally, and internationally. In many ways, this voluminous record (125.68 l.f.) of two subgroups, 32 records series, and 81 subseries captures the...
Dates:
1948-2007; Other: Majority of material found within 1994-2007; Other: Date acquired: 1994 December 12
Found in:
Oberlin College Archives
Nat Brandt Papers
Collection
Identifier: RG 30-367
Scope and Contents
The Nat Brandt Papers primarily document Brandt’s research and writing on three Oberlin related topics: the Oberlin-Wellington Rescue of 1858; the Oberlin missionaries who were killed during the Boxer Rebellion in China in 1900; and, Oberlin College Football (late 1890s) and John Heisman as coach of the team. The titles of Brandt’s books are identified in the series descriptions below. Many of the documents in the collection are photocopies of the original materials that were used by...
Dates:
ca. 1850s-2004; Other: Date acquired: 2004 January 6
Found in:
Oberlin College Archives
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, Oberlin Unit 3196, Records
Collection
Identifier: RG 31-033
Scope and Contents
The records of the Oberlin Unit of the NAACP cover the period from ca. 1919 to 1976, and from 1990 to 2014. They comprise certificates of achievement, correspondence, Freedom Fund Banquet programs, membership campaign materials, reports, general NAACP information, and complaint case files. The latter are restricted.
Dates:
ca. 1919-2018, undated; Other: Date acquired: 06/01/2001
Found in:
Oberlin College Archives
Newell L. Sims Papers
Collection
Identifier: RG 30-343
Scope and Contents
The papers of Newell L. Sims document his days as a college student, and his career as a teacher and author in the fields of Sociology and Political Science. A small amount of material in one notebook, 1902-1905, contains information concerning his service as a minister. Also included is a modest amount of biographical information and correspondence.
The bulk of the collection includes notebooks relating to class notes of courses taken by Sims, schedules and appointments, notes...
Dates:
1899-1940, undated; Other: Date acquired: 1969 June 11
Found in:
Oberlin College Archives