letters (correspondence)
Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Found in 395 Collections and/or Records:
Oberlin College Museum Records
Collection
Identifier: RG 09-012
Scope and Contents
The records of the Oberlin College Museum, 1877-1964, include correspondence, inventories, an accession book, and a catalogue that contains information relating to the acquisition of specimens for the natural history museum. The Accession Book covers the period 1855-1949 and contains entries that include the name of the donor, date received, a description of the specimen, and the accession number. The correspondence files contain letters from individual donors. Inventory and specimen...
Dates:
1877-1964, undated; Other: Date acquired: 05/19/1975
Found in:
Oberlin College Archives
Oberlin Kindergarten-Primary Training School Records
Collection
Identifier: RG 24
Scope and Contents
Correspondence, annual reports, minutes, legal documents, financial ledgers, printed material, and photographs comprise the records of the Oberlin Kindergarten-Primary Training School (OKPTS), founded in 1894 by the Oberlin Kindergarten Association and absorbed in 1932 by the Education Department of Oberlin College. The school's founders conceived of the OKPTS and its free kindergartens as laboratories in which the latest methods of kindergarten pedagogy might be tested; however, the bulk...
Dates:
1894-1933; Other: Date acquired: 1967
Found in:
Oberlin College Archives
Oberlin LIASE Collection
Collection
Identifier: RG 60-001
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...
Dates:
1995-2022; Majority of material found in 2015-2022; Other: Date acquired: 08/17/2022
Found in:
Oberlin College Archives
Oberlin Shansi Memorial Association Records
Collection
Identifier: RG 15-001
Scope and Contents
The records of OSMA date from 1881 to the present and relate to the activities of Oberlinians in Asia during that period.
Earlier records discuss missionary work of the Oberlin Band: evangelism, teaching, medical work, and the operation of "opium refuges" in the Shanxi province of China. The bulk of this collection deals with the OSMA, which was formed as a living memorial to Oberlin missionaries who died in the Boxer Rebellion of 1900.
Administrative and financial...
Dates:
1868-2024; Other: Date acquired: 01/01/1967
Found in:
Oberlin College Archives
OCOPE/OPEIU Local 502
Collection
Identifier: RG 48
Scope and Contents
The records for the Oberlin College Office and Professional Employees Union (OCOPE) provide relevant information about the labor issues which precipitated the creation of a union. The documents provide a very detailed account of its formation and development as the sole collective bargaining agent for the administrative assistants. The bulk of the material emphasizes the period from 1970 to 1977, from the union’s creation to its affiliation with the Office and Professional Employees...
Dates:
1960-2004; Other: Date acquired: 07/09/1987
Found in:
Oberlin College Archives
Office of Admissions Records
Collection
Identifier: RG 25
Scope and Contents
The records of the Office of Admissions (1888, 1902-2000), including annual reports, minutes, correspondence, student applications, statistical tables, consultants' reports, and printed materials, document the office's administrative, recruitment, research, and marketing activities over six decades. Minutes of the Committee on Admissions, 1907-28, are housed with the records of the Office of the Secretary. The collection is divided into six series alphabetically arranged: I....
Dates:
1888-2000
Found in:
Oberlin College Archives
Office of Business and Finance Records
Collection
Identifier: RG 06-001
Scope and Contents
The records of the Vice-President for Business and Finance incorporate the records of the predecessor office of Business Manager established in 1954. The bulk of the records represent the time period 1960 through 1983. The Business Manager and his successor, Vice-President of Business and Finance, were responsible for coordinating the administration of non-academic departments of the College, including all functions relating to accounting systems and buildings and grounds, residences and...
Dates:
1927 - 1988; Other: Date acquired: 1969
Found in:
Oberlin College Archives
Office of Communications Records
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: RG 18-001
Scope and Contents
The records of the Office of Communications and its predecessor bodies serve as a significant vertical file covering a wide range of events and topics of interest to the College. The records, existing in both textual and non-textual formats, thus provide an historical overview of these events and topics, dating from 1923 through the present. Comprised of news clips, subject files, news releases, photographs and reel to reel tape recording, the collection documents Oberlin history, Oberlin...
Dates:
1923-2024; Majority of material found in 1950-1987; Other: Date acquired: 12/27/1967
Found in:
Oberlin College Archives
Office of Controller Records
Collection
Identifier: RG 08
Scope and Contents
The Controller's Office files are arranged in three records series: I. Annual Gift Reports, II. Annual Financial Reports, and III. Bursar/Treasurer's Files. Almost exclusively financial in nature, these records include reports, contracts, tax forms, grant papers, remittance information forms, memoranda, promissory notes, trust fund account statements, agreements, correspondence, invoices, land deeds and titles, and leases. They date from 1835 to 1994.
Accession 2003/053, dating...
Dates:
1835 - 1995; Other: Date acquired: 07/15/1995
Found in:
Oberlin College Archives
Office of Development and Alumni Affairs Records
Collection
Identifier: RG 26
Scope and Contents
The records of the Office of Development and Alumni Affairs document the fund-raising, reporting, research, and public relations activities of the development arm of Oberlin College from 1887 to the present. These records do not provide a consecutive account of the complicated history of the Development Office per se. That history may be constructed by consulting this collection and related holdings of institutional records and personal papers (as detailed below) in the Oberlin College...
Dates:
1857-2012
Found in:
Oberlin College Archives