manuscripts
Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Found in 291 Collections and/or Records:
Allen Memorial Art Museum Records
Collection
Identifier: RG 09-003
Scope and Contents
The records of the Allen Memorial Art Museum date from 1899 to the present. A significant portion of the collection consists of correspondence files of the directors and curators, spanning the years from 1919 to 1991. The correspondence deals with various issues pertaining to acquiring, lending, and borrowing works of art. Extensive files also document exhibits from 1919 to 1987. These exhibition files often include checklists, catalogs, brochures, photographs, and correspondence. The...
Dates:
1899-2013; Other: Date acquired: 01/17/1972
Found in:
Oberlin College Archives
Andrea R. Meyer Papers
Collection
Identifier: RG 30-321
Scope and Contents
The Andrea R. Meyer Papers comprise her research materials, undergraduate thesis and a course paper from her time at Oberlin (1984-88) concerning the experiences of Jewish students at Oberlin College.
Her thesis, entitled “History of Jews at Oberlin College: A Mirror of Change—A Reflection of a Society” (1988), is available in these papers and also under a shortened title from the OhioLINK ETD Center online. Research materials for the project are photocopies of records in the...
Dates:
ca. 1910-1989; Other: Date acquired: 1989 August 14
Found in:
Oberlin College Archives
Andrew Bongiorno Papers
Collection
Identifier: RG 30-258
Scope and Contents
The Andrew Bongiorno Papers are arranged into five series: 1. Correspondence; 2. Speeches; 3. Writings; 4. Teaching and Research Files; and 5. Photographs. The teaching and research files in Series 4 make up the bulk of the collection, with extensive lecture notes and quotations for his teaching, particularly on the work of Dante, and research index card notes for his translation of Lodovico Castelvetro’s Poetica d’Aristotele Vulgarizzata et Sposta...
Dates:
1938-1991, undated; Other: Date acquired: 1994 July 21
Found in:
Oberlin College Archives
Archibald McCullum Ball and Sarah A. Curtis Papers
Collection
Identifier: RG 30-006
Scope and Contents
The genealogy fills 12 three-ring notebooks, with an accompanying volume that contains an introduction and an index. In addition to the genealogical information, the notebooks include letters and documents of family members, plus historical and biographical sketches. The collection includes letters by Irene Ball (Allen), 1836-1842, describing life as a student in early Oberlin and as the wife of an abolitionist minister in Illinois; an eight-page typescript of a notebook written by...
Dates:
1819-1962; Other: Date acquired: 11/02/1967
Found in:
Oberlin College Archives
Arthur E. Nilsson Papers
Collection
Identifier: RG 30-244
Scope and Contents
The collection ranges in date from 1931 to 1959 and consists of correspondence, speeches/writings, and printed materials. It includes both personal and professional material.
The Arthur E. Nilsson Papers are divided into three series: Correspondence, Speeches and Writings, and Collected Printed Material. The latter series is divided into three subseries: Ben Lewis, Chapel Talks, and Miscellaneous.
Dates:
1931 - 1959; Other: Date acquired: 1994 June 1
Found in:
Oberlin College Archives
Arthur Lyman Williams Papers
Collection
Identifier: RG 30-060
Scope and Contents
The papers of Arthur L. Williams primarily document his career as a woodwinds and music education teacher and his involvement in Oberlin College musical groups. The collection includes items relating to his work at summer schools, personal and professional correspondence, and several photographs of Oberlin College bands and ensembles that were directed by Williams. The departmental files and photographs comprise the bulk of the collection. Williams taught during World War II, so many of...
Dates:
1920-1981, undated; Majority of material found within 1927 - 1970; Other: Date acquired: 01/01/1970
Found in:
Oberlin College Archives
Asa Mahan Presidential Papers
Collection
Identifier: RG 02-001
Scope and Contents
The Mahan papers are an artificial creation compiled from a variety of sources and are mainly photocopies. All original documents were transferred from the Library "Autograph File" (RG16). Additional non-original documentation was gathered and contributed from several sources, including researchers and genealogists.
Dates:
1764-1995, undated; Majority of material found within 1835 - 1894; Other: Date acquired: 1973 January 1
Found in:
Oberlin College Archives
Athena Tacha Papers
Collection
Identifier: RG 30-262
Scope and Contents
The papers of Athena Tacha primarily document her teaching as a member of the Oberlin College Department of Art, and her role as Consultant Curator of the Weltzheimer/Johnson House designed by Frank Lloyd Wright in Oberlin, Ohio. Tacha used these materials in writing the manuscript “Frank Lloyd Wright at Oberlin: the story of the Weltzheimer/Johnson House.”
The collection is organized into two Subgroups, I. Materials Relating to Athena Tacha and II. Materials relating to the...
Dates:
1968-2002, undated; Other: Date acquired: 1995 August 22
Found in:
Oberlin College Archives
August Meier Papers
Collection
Identifier: RG 30-074
Scope and Contents
The papers of August Meier primarily document his student days at Oberlin College (1941-45), and his interest in interracial matters, Student Congress, and the Mock Convention. Records consist of materials related to the discrimination of Oberlin barbershops against Black clients (1942-45) and the investigation of discrimination against Black students on the Oberlin College campus (1942). Other files contain information concerning the Committees of Correspondence (1943-45), and the...
Dates:
1939 - 1988; Other: Date acquired: 06/06/1973
Found in:
Oberlin College Archives
Azariah Smith Root Papers
Collection
Identifier: RG 30-057
Abstract
The papers of Azariah Smith Root (1862-1927, A.B. 1884) document the personal and professional life of this prominent educator, librarian, and scholar.
Dates:
1881 - 1986; Majority of material found within 1881 - 1930; Other: Date acquired: 08/20/1971
Found in:
Oberlin College Archives