prints (visual works)
Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Found in 18 Collections and/or Records:
Betty Lind Papers
Collection
Identifier: RG 30-118
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...
Dates:
1952-1990, undated; Majority of material found in 1963-1990; Other: Date acquired: 10/09/1978
Found in:
Oberlin College Archives
Clarence Ward Collection
Collection
Identifier: RG 30-158
Scope and Contents
The Clarence Ward Collection provides detail on Clarence Ward’s activities as an architectural consultant and on his administration of the Allen Memorial Art Museum. Information also exists here on the debate of the system of faculty governance at Oberlin College. Consisting of correspondence, memoranda, and other printed materials, this collection is organized into ten series.
The correspondence and diaries series provide the richest insight into Ward’s personal and...
Dates:
ca.1900-1996, undated; Majority of material found in 1929-1987; Other: Date acquired: 1983 May 30
Found in:
Oberlin College Archives
Conservatory of Music Records
Collection
Identifier: RG 10
Scope and Contents
The records of the Conservatory of Music span the years 1841 to the present, the earliest records consisting of printed catalogs and concert programs. Few records have survived to illuminate the period from 1867, when the Conservatory became a division of the College, to 1928, the date of the earliest surviving correspondence of a Conservatory Director (Frank Holcomb Shaw). The bulk of the collection, concentrated in the period 1930 to 1990, details the administrative and educational...
Dates:
1841-present; Other: Date acquired: 07/06/1967
Found in:
Oberlin College Archives
Douglas V. Steere Papers
Collection
Identifier: RG 30-318
Abstract
The materials in the Douglas V. Steere Papers have exclusively to do with his interest in and study of John Frederick (Jean-Frédéric or Johann Friedrich) Oberlin (1740-1826), the Alsatian pastor who served in the Ban de la Roche region in the Vosges Mountains of Alsace in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. Steere visited Oberlin’s pastorate in the years following World War II, when he was involved in recovery efforts by the American...
Dates:
1910-1976, undated; Other: Date acquired: 1999 June 21
Found in:
Oberlin College Archives
Jewel LaFontant-MANkarious Papers
Collection
Identifier: RG 30-310
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...
Dates:
1875-1997; Majority of material found in 1965-1997; Other: Date acquired: 1997 October 28
Found in:
Oberlin College Archives
John Frederick Oberlin Collection
Collection
Identifier: RG 30-165
Abstract
The John Frederick Oberlin Collection contains items created by J. F. Oberlin and his contemporaries, gifts to Oberlin College relating to J. F. Oberlin, correspondence, writings and addresses about J. F. Oberlin, as well as lithographs, engravings and drawings.
Dates:
1766-2013, undated; Other: Date acquired: 1970 May 25
Found in:
Oberlin College Archives
Julia G. Severance Papers
Collection
Identifier: RG 30-309
Scope and Contents
The Julia G. Severance papers primarily consist of her etchings of notable sites and buildings around the Oberlin College campus. Also included are letters written to friends regarding personal matters. The letters were retained for the additional artwork found on them. The photograph series contains photos of Julia Severance, her studio, and the Severance home in Oberlin, Ohio, as well as a photo album documenting her time in California and various loose photographs. The two scrapbooks...
Dates:
1912-1957, undated; Other: Date acquired: 1999 September 21
Found in:
Oberlin College Archives
Lilla Estelle Appleton Papers
Collection
Identifier: RG 30-334
Scope and Contents
The Lilla Estelle Appleton Papers provide uneven documentation of the life and career of this Oberlin alumna and educator. The papers consist of biographical information, diaries, correspondence, writings, essays, teaching related materials, newspapers, and non-textual items. The papers are arranged in eight series: 1. Biographical Files, 2. Diaries and Journals, 3. Correspondence, 4. Student Files, 5. Teaching Files, 6. Writings, 7. Non-Textual Materials, and 8....
Dates:
1848-1937, undated; Other: Date acquired: 1989 October 5
Found in:
Oberlin College Archives
Lloyd William and Esther Bliss Taylor Papers
Collection
Identifier: RG 30-097
Scope and Contents
The papers of Lloyd William and Esther Bliss Taylor document their involvement in numerous professional and private organizations. Additionally, the papers reflect their views on temperance, belief in Christianity, and their political and social opinions. The collection is divided into two subgroups, the papers of Lloyd William Taylor, and the papers of Esther Bliss Taylor.
Subgroup I contains the papers of William Lloyd Taylor from 1921 to 1952. The bulk of the materials are...
Dates:
ca.1895-1980, undated; Majority of material found in 1921-1970; Other: Date acquired: 08/20/1969
Found in:
Oberlin College Archives
Nichols Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: RG 30-372
Scope and Contents
The papers of the Nichols Family primarily document the career of Ruth Alexander Nichols as a photographer and businesswoman and range from letters to and from diverse family members to photographs and negatives. These materials provide an example of a successful commercial photographer who was almost entirely self-taught. Ruth Alexander Nichols began her career as a photographer out of necessity, finding herself widowed in the first half of the twentieth century, an age when single...
Dates:
1884-1962, undated; Other: Majority of material found in 1911-1934; Other: Date acquired: 2004 June 15
Found in:
Oberlin College Archives