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Found in 95 Collections and/or Records:
Edward Increase Bosworth Papers
Collection
Identifier: RG 30-196
Scope and Contents
The Edward Increase Bosworth Papers, 1852(1898-1926)-1934, comprise correspondence, journals, writings and photographs documenting Bosworth's personal and professional life during his tenure (1892-1927) as Chair of New Testament Language and Literature at Oberlin's Graduate School of Theology. The correspondence includes early letters (1852) from family, "steamer" letters, and letters from colleagues regarding speaking engagements, missionary work, job offers, biblical...
Dates:
1852 - 1934; Majority of material found in 1898-1927; Other: Date acquired: 1969 December 19
Found in:
Oberlin College Archives
Elam Jewett Comings Papers
Collection
Identifier: RG 30-052
Scope and Contents
The papers of Elam J. Comings include correspondence, writings, miscellaneous family papers, and photographs. The bulk of the collection consists of the correspondence of Elam J. Comings to his family, written while a student at Oberlin College (1836-41) and while serving pastorates in Ohio (1842-43, 1853-60), Vermont (1845-48), and Massachusetts (1848-53). Topics covered in the Oberlin correspondence include the preaching of Asa Mahan (1799-1889) and Charles Grandison Finney (1792-1875),...
Dates:
1834-94, 1904-36, undated; Majority of material found within 1834 - 1907; Other: Date acquired: 02/08/1971
Found in:
Oberlin College Archives
Ellsworth C. Carlson Papers
Collection
Identifier: RG 30-176
Abstract
The papers of Ellsworth C. Carlson document his undergraduate days at Oberlin College, his years as an Oberlin Shansi Memorial Association representative to China and Shansi board member, his professional contributions as a faculty exchange member, and his special interest in East Asian History.
Dates:
1935-2012, undated; Other: Date acquired: 00/00/1985
Found in:
Oberlin College Archives
Enid Bancroft Sutton (Swan) Papers
Collection
Identifier: RG 30-465
Scope and Contents
The Enid Bancroft Sutton (Swan) Papers is a relatively small collection, with most of the material documenting or describing her participation in an ecology course in the summer of 1915, involving a trip to the Pacific Northwest Coast in Washington for the purpose of studying its ecological niche and bird life. The trip was the first of many led by Oberlin Zoology Professor Lynds Jones, who specialized in the study of birds and their migrations. Jones was one of the pioneers in the field...
Dates:
1915-1983, undated; Other: Date acquired: 1994 June 27
Found in:
Oberlin College Archives
Eric B. Nye Papers
Collection
Identifier: RG 30-342
Scope and Contents
The papers of Eric B. Nye, Oberlin Class of 1970, document his days as a student at Oberlin College (1966-70), including his summers spent at Cape Cod (1967) and on the Oberlin programs in France (1968) and Vienna (1969). His time at Oberlin College spanned an era of increasing unrest among college students across the country in reaction to the Vietnam War and civil protests at home, and Oberlin experienced its share of this unrest.
The collection consists of a notebook from a...
Dates:
1961-1981, undated; Other: Date acquired: 2001 June 19
Found in:
Oberlin College Archives
Ernest Bourner Allen Papers
Collection
Identifier: RG 30-137
Scope and Contents
The papers of Ernest B. Allen document his studies in graduate school, his ministry service, and his travels to Jerusalem and Egypt. The collection consists of notes, 1901-1903, taken by Allen of lectures given by Professor Edward I. Bosworth of the Oberlin Theological Seminary and by other faculty members. The subjects of the lectures include Pauline Theology, New Testament Introduction, and Philosophy and Development of Religion. Also included are four parish registers, 1906-1931,...
Dates:
1895-1931, undated; Other: Date acquired: 10/22/1980
Found in:
Oberlin College Archives
Esther A. Close & Mary Maud Mann Papers
Collection
Identifier: RG 30-217
Scope and Contents
This collection is divided into three series, but largely consists of diaries and transcripts of two Oberlin students from the 1880s.
The collection contains little biographical information of either woman, apart from what can be gleamed from the everyday occurrences in their diaries.
Close and Mann were evidently friends, as well as cousins. Close’s diary mentions a “Maud” quite frequently, and as Mann’s student file lists her as “M. Maud Mann,” it is quite likely that...
Dates:
1884 - 1990; Majority of material found within 1884 - 1910; Other: Date acquired: 1990 June 18
Found in:
Oberlin College Archives
Everett D. Hawkins Papers
Collection
Identifier: RG 30-130
Scope and Contents
The papers of Everett Day Hawkins mainly document the two years Hawkins spent in Taigu, China, as a Shansi Representative of Oberlin College (1927-29). Later materials pertain to Hawkins' service in Chungking with the U.S. Office of War Information (1944-46). Virtually no record exists in these papers of Hawkins' teaching career at Mt. Holyoke College and the University of Wisconsin; his government service; or his scholarship in Southeast Asian development economics.
Hawkins'...
Dates:
1900-1972; Majority of material found in 1927-1946; Other: Date acquired: 04/09/1979
Found in:
Oberlin College Archives
Finney Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: RG 30-236
Scope and Contents
This small collection consists of items relating to the Charles Grandison Finney family. The correspondence series (Series 1) includes eight letters by Elizabeth Atkinson Finney, C.G. Finney’s second wife, and one letter from C.G. Finney to his daughter, Julia R. Finney. The series also holds one letter of introduction for Mrs. Charles G. Finney to Horace Greeley by Henry Ward Beecher.
Series 2. Geneaology holds a family chart and a report on the Finney family. Information in...
Dates:
1853-1990, undated; Majority of material found in 1853-1912; Other: Date acquired: 1992 October
Found in:
Oberlin College Archives
Florence Mary Fitch Papers
Collection
Identifier: RG 30-037
Abstract
The papers of Florence Mary Fitch relate to Fitch's student years in Oberlin, Munich, and Berlin (1892-97; 1900-03) and her subsequent career at Oberlin College as a biblical scholar and writer of children's books. They also contain materials relating to three preceding generations of the Fitch family (1807-1936). Virtually no record exists in these papers of Florence Fitch's tenure as Dean of Women at Oberlin (1904-20). The records of the Office of the Dean of Students (Record Group 12)...
Dates:
1807-1959; Majority of material found in 1892-1917; Other: Date acquired: 04/17/1969
Found in:
Oberlin College Archives