moving images -- videotapes

Scope and Contents The papers of Betty Lind provide a brief overview of Lind's career at Oberlin College and her life following her retirement. The files pertaining to her time at Oberlin reflect her determined efforts to establish modern dance as an art form. Lind's attempts to incorporate modern dance into the Theater Arts department are also demonstrated in this collection, both by proposals and by the numerous productions she staged with The Modern Dance Club. Lind's own career as a...

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...

Scope and Contents The papers of Jewel LaFontant-MANkarious relate primarily to the latter portion of her career. The papers include correspondence, handwritten notes, speeches and addresses, news clippings, and photographs and other non-textual material; the bulk of the historical material dates from the late 1970s to her death in 1997. There is very little material related to her days as a student at Oberlin College (1939-43), and there is no material from her childhood or her studies at the University...

Scope and Contents Most of the Oberlin College Archives’ motion picture recordings on VHS cassette tape have some relation to Oberlin College or the City of Oberlin. The rest are, with only a few exceptions, related to Lorain County or the greater Cleveland/Akron area. For the most part, the videocassettes date from the mid-1980s to the mid-2000s. VHS (Video Home System) tape was first released in America in 1977 and began to be replaced by other media in the late 1990s, first by DVCAM tapes on...

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The Oberlin Golf Club Records are arranged in 13 series and range in date from 1903-2007. Records include administrative, membership, and miscellaneous documents. There are photographs and maps, as well as documents from the club's women's associations.

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...

Scope and Contents This extensive collection contains papers and multimedia documenting Phillip Bennett's life. Because Bennett was blind, this collection provides information about Oberlin College's efforts to help students with disabilites, services available to help the blind, and Bennett's ability to conduct everyday life in a very successful fashion and to excel as a musician. Twelve folders of correspondence provide information about Bennett's admission to the Conservatory at Oberlin College...

Scope and Contents The Robbins Strong papers primarily consist of the six photographic albums and five manuscripts that detail twentieth-century China. The collection covers almost exclusively Strong’s prolific career in China as an Oberlin-in-Shansi representative and as an active Christian missionary (1930s-1960s). However, the collected works face several shortcomings in shedding insight into Strong’s personal career. Most of his correspondence between friends and family were written under strict...

Scope and Contents Expansive in terms of range, and volume (81.9 l.f.), the presidential papers of S. Frederick Starr mirror the work of a proactive leader who sought to make Oberlin College one of the nation’s most distinctive liberal arts institutions. Within these official records, the researcher will find delineated the decision and policy making actions of the Starr administration with fine detail on building projects, campus unrest, financial planning and development, personnel issues, and his...