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Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Found in 19 Collections and/or Records:
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
Photographs: Graduates and Former Students
Collection
Identifier: RG 32-003-001
Scope and Contents
The photographs of graduates and former students are arranged in two series. A third series holds photographs of Oberlin community members associated in some way with the college.
Loose photographs of graduates and former college students in Series 1, Subseries 1 are arranged chronologically by graduating class, beginning with 1836. Files include photographs taken while students attended Oberlin and after they left. Many of the latter were taken during class reunions. Some...
Dates:
1836 to Present; Other: Date acquired: 1966
Found in:
Oberlin College Archives
Photographs: Hi-O-Hi Yearbook Collection
Collection
Identifier: RG 32-008
Scope and Contents
The Oberlin College yearbook, titled the Hi-O-Hi, is a rich source of photographic documentation from 1889 to 2006, after which it ceased publication. In the final years of the yearbook, publication was erratic. The Hi-O-Hi photograph collection covers the years 1960-61, 1972-77, and the 1980s through 1994. There is less photographic documentation of the College in general for the 1980s though the early 2000s, and this...
Dates:
1960-1994, undated; Other: Date acquired: 01/19/1988
Found in:
Oberlin College Archives
Photographs: Presidents, Faculty, Staff, Trustees, Honorary Degree Recipients, and Others
Collection
Identifier: RG 32-003-002
Scope and Contents
Like the record group for graduate and former students, this group holds portraits dating from the earliest years of photography to the present. However, the earliest images are print copies of daguerreoptypes and other cased images, the originals of which are held in a separate record group (RG 32/3/4). The photographs are arranged into three series: 1. Faculty, Staff, Trustees, and Honorary Degree Recipients; 2. Presidents; and, 3. Other Individuals. Contents of Series 1 and 3 are...
Dates:
1830s to Present; Other: Date acquired: 1966
Found in:
Oberlin College Archives
Photographs: Subjects
Collection
Identifier: RG 32-005
Scope and Contents
This grouping, arranged by subject, holds the largest numbers of photographic prints in the Oberlin College Archives. The bulk of them are 8” x 10” or smaller, and are stored vertically in file cabinet drawers. Older, more fragile prints are stored separately in records cartons and require more careful handling. The subject headings were locally derived and do not adhere to any controlled vocabulary.
The older prints, dating from the 1850s to the later 1910s, were produced by...
Dates:
ca. 1850s-Present; Other: Date acquired: 1966
Found in:
Oberlin College Archives
Robert P. Fountain Papers
Collection
Identifier: RG 30-368
Scope and Contents
The Robert P. Fountain Papers document his career as a singing teacher and director of choral music, and to a lesser degree his early life. The bulk of his papers consist of thirteen scrapbooks, most of which his son, Robert H. Fountain, assembled. According to Bob, “the scrapbooks are full of how my father’s talents, drive, and personality affected those who studied with him, performed under his direction, attended performances, or knew him as a human being.” Included here, too, are two...
Dates:
1900-1996, undated; Other: Date acquired: 2004 April 9
Found in:
Oberlin College Archives
Sharon F. Patton Papers
Collection
Identifier: RG 30-361
Scope and Contents
The papers of Sharon F. Patton primarily document her time as the John G.W. Cowles Director of Oberlin College's Allen Art Museum, 1998-2003, and her interest in African and African American Art.
Her interest in collecting popular artwork is represented by four of her prints, salt and pepper shaker figurines, and a cotton novelty ornament all based on the subject of African-American stereotype popular artwork.
Photographs given to Dr. Patton by Abe Goldsmith of his painting...
Dates:
1916-2003, undated; Other: Majority of material found in 1983-2003; Other: Date acquired: 2003 March 17
Found in:
Oberlin College Archives
The Oberlin Group Records
Collection
Identifier: RG 58
Scope and Contents
The records of the Oberlin Group cover several years of collaborative effort between numerous liberal arts college libraries across the country from 1986 to 2013. These records provide documentation of the history, administration and management of the Oberlin Group, from the group’s initial meeting at the Oberlin College Library in 1986 through 2013. Several important technological advances and important collegiate changes such as the introduction and development of the Internet,...
Dates:
1985-2013; Other: Date acquired: 11/17/2015
Found in:
Oberlin College Archives
Thomas G. M. Simchak Photographs
Collection
Identifier: RG 30-365
Scope and Contents
The Thomas G.M. Simchak Photographs document his interest and participation in environmental, political, social, and outdoor activities, on campus and elsewhere. The collection consists of: Series 1. Photographic Prints from Thomas G.M. Simchak (approximately 931 prints); Series 2. Born-Digital Images on Compact Disks (2), containing 1,608 born-digital photographs, many of which are represented in the prints; and, Series 3. Reference Prints from Selected Born-Digital Images on CD-Roms...
Dates:
1999 - 2003; Other: Date acquired: 2003 June 3
Found in:
Oberlin College Archives