sound recordings -- audiocassettes
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 41 Collections and/or Records:
Erwin H. Richards Papers
Collection
Identifier: RG 30-271
Scope and Contents
The Erwin H. Richards papers consist of a scrapbook, correspondence, writings, photographs and photograph albums, glass plate negatives, lantern slides, a map, and printer’s blocks that document the family’s missionary activity in Portuguese East Africa.
The writings constitute a significant portion of the Erwin H. Richards papers. Included are writings and translations by Richards, used as instructional tools during his missionary work in Africa. The writings by others also...
Dates:
1850 - 1994; Majority of material found in 1880-1910; Other: Date acquired: 1993 November 3
Found in:
Oberlin College Archives
Frances J. Cade and E. John Hamlin Papers
Collection
Identifier: RG 30-418
Scope and Contents
The papers, photographs, and objects originating with Frances Cade and E. John Hamlin reflect the lives of two Oberlin graduates who met during their service in China as Shansi representatives in the mid-1930s, and continued after their marriage in 1942 to pursue a lifetime of service in the Far East. Both the Hamlins wrote articles for their hometown newspapers during their time at Taigu, and gave presentations on their experiences later in life as employees of the World Council of...
Dates:
BCE-2010, undated; Other: Majority of material found in 1934-48; 1982-89; Other: Date acquired: 1981 June 22
Found in:
Oberlin College Archives
Fredrick D. Shults Papers
Collection
Identifier: RG 30-195
Scope and Contents
The papers of Fredrick D. Shults document his involvement with physical education and athletics at Oberlin College for nearly 35 years. Shults’ many writings and instructional materials included in the collection record his philosophy on teaching, coaching, sports ethics, and many forms of sports strategy.
Dates:
1883 - 2006; Other: Date acquired: 1988 December 28
Found in:
Oberlin College Archives
Gender and Women's Studies Program
Collection
Identifier: RG 09-016
Scope and Contents
Records of the Gender and Women's Studies Program (Women’s Studies Program prior to 2003) date from 1972 to 2008 and trace the establishment, organization, development, and administration of first a Women's Studies curriculum, later the Women's Studies Program, and, as of 2003, the Gender and Women’s Studies Program.
These records include minutes, correspondence, reports, financial records, and a variety of other materials that document the functions of the Women's Studies Program,...
Dates:
1972-2008; Other: Date acquired: 1988
Found in:
Oberlin College Archives
Geoffrey T. Blodgett Papers
Collection
Identifier: RG 30-263
Scope and Contents
Geoffrey T. Blodgett’s career as a professor and scholar of American history at Oberlin College is well documented in these papers, from his appointment at Oberlin in 1960 to his retirement in 2000 and death in 2001. A small amount of material dates from prior to his faculty appointment. There is very little of a personal nature in the papers, but his correspondence with respected and valued colleagues, as well as many former students, reveal warm relationships with many of them and...
Dates:
1683-ca. 2011; Majority of material found in 1960-2000; Other: Date acquired: 1995
Found in:
Oberlin College Archives
Graduate School of Theology Records
Collection
Identifier: RG 11
Scope and Contents
The records of the Graduate School of Theology span the years 1841 to 1967, with the bulk of the items concentrated in the period from 1903 to 1966. For documentation of the seminary's first seventy years (1833-1903), when Oberlin's presidents controlled seminary operation, researchers will wish to consult the presidential papers of Charles Grandison Finney (2/2), James Harris Fairchild (2/3), and Henry Churchill King (2/4). In the records here described, documentation of this period is...
Dates:
1841-1984; Majority of material found in 1923-1966; Other: Date acquired: 1966
Found in:
Oberlin College Archives
Henry L. Lieske Research Collection
Collection
Identifier: RG 30-143
Scope and Contents
The research files assembled and described by retired Lutheran pastor, Henry L. Lieske, document the conflict between moderate and conservative members of the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod (LCMS) which resulted in schism in 1976. Folder and item-level notations provided by Pastor Lieske express the views of one moderate pastor who watched the conflict unfold from within the Missouri Synod. The papers reveal the extent of the moral and theological crisis provoked by the actions of...
Dates:
1932 - 1999; Majority of material found in 1932-1989; Other: Date acquired: 07/15/1980
Found in:
Oberlin College Archives
Herbert Shore Collection in Honor of Eduardo C. Mondlane
Collection
Identifier: RG 30-307
Scope and Contents
The Herbert Shore Collection in Honor of Eduardo Mondlane is comprised of two subgroups. Subgroup I is Historical Files Relating to Herbert Shore’s Interests in the Arts and Culture. The bulk of this subgroup consists of files relating to the Council on The Arts, Culture, and Technology (TACT) of which Shore was the director from 1974 to 1988. Additional material in this subgroup concerns the performing arts, and includes playscripts, photographs, and audio and video...
Dates:
1933-2013, undated; Majority of material found in 1950s-1997; Other: Date acquired: 1998 October 30
Found in:
Oberlin College Archives
J. Stanton McLaughlin Papers
Collection
Identifier: RG 30-092
Scope and Contents
The papers of J. Stanton McLaughlin consist of photographs of the Oberlin Dramatic Association’s productions, 1932-42, and twenty-one cassette tape letters of James McLaughlin. The tapes contain letters to Alice and Chester Shaver, Dorothy Daub, Caroline Fenn, and Andrew and Laurine Bongiorno, 1979-85. McLaughlin’s eyesight failed him in later life, and the tapes provided a means to correspond with others. In addition to the contents of the letters (i.e., Oberlin, German politics, events...
Dates:
1939-1987, undated; Majority of material found in 1981-87; Other: Date acquired: 04/07/1976
Found in:
Oberlin College Archives
Jorge Luis Borges Collection
Collection
Identifier: RG 30-461
Scope and Contents
The Jorge Luis Borges Collection primarily comprises interviews, ephemera, clippings, photographs, and audio and video recordings documenting Borges’ visit to Oberlin College in May 1983, as well as other interviews with Borges by Ana Cara. Most of the materials were used in the Oberlin College Libraries' digital [url=https://omeka.ohio5.org/exhibits/show/borges]Jorge Luis Borges Collection[/url] published in 2012. The project was one of many developed at Oberlin and the other four...
Dates:
1979-2016, undated; Other: Date acquired: 2015 November 3
Found in:
Oberlin College Archives