manuscripts
Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Found in 291 Collections and/or Records:
William Hayden Boyers Papers
Collection
Identifier: RG 30-056
Scope and Contents
The William Hayden Boyers papers primarily document Boyers’s work as a theatre director. A majority of the records relate to his work as director and faculty advisor of the Oberlin College Gilbert and Sullivan Players, an organization that he founded in 1949. After his retirement from Oberlin College, Boyers served on the faculty of Saint Paul’s Episcopal College in Lawrenceville, Virginia. The collection contains correspondence, a class syllabus, several programs, and a series of slides...
Dates:
1944-1982, undated; Majority of material found in 1950-1972; Other: Date acquired: 08/09/1971
Found in:
Oberlin College Archives
William K. Breckenridge Papers
Collection
Identifier: RG 30-078
Scope and Contents
Consisting of class record books (1898-1934), scrapbooks (1888-1856) and other miscellaneous items (1888-1979), this collection primarily documents William Breckenridge’s work as an instructor of piano at the Oberlin College Conservatory of Music. His class record books list his students, their weekly appointments for music lessons, and their grades. The scrapbook details his experiences while studying music in Leipzig, Germany (1885-1886), and it includes musical programs and fliers as...
Dates:
1885-1957, undated; Other: Date acquired: 09/16/1971
Found in:
Oberlin College Archives
William K. Farquhar Papers
Collection
Identifier: RG 30-380
Scope and Contents
The papers were arranged by William K. Farquhar into three groupings: Series I. Correspondence during Military Service in World War II, 1943-1946; Series II. Memoir of Military Service during World War II, 1945-1946, 1996 (in four binders); and Series III. Additional Materials, 1944-1946, 1984, 2005-2006, undated.
Dates:
1943-2006, undated; Other: Majority of material found in 1943-1946; Other: Date acquired: 2006 January 31
Found in:
Oberlin College Archives
William L. Mezger Papers
Collection
Identifier: RG 30-113
Scope and Contents
William Mezger collected these papers while working on a history of the Oberlin College Alumni Association. They consist of memoranda, letters, and minutes dealing with the organization and operation of the Association and include some writings about its history. Of particular interest are letters or interviews written in 1970 by the following persons describing their experiences and knowledge of the Association: Frederick Artz, Dan Bradley, Robert D. Fisher, Virginia Fletcher, E.E....
Dates:
1938 - 1978; Majority of material found in 1965-1970; Other: Date acquired: 02/23/1978
Found in:
Oberlin College Archives
William P. Norris Papers
Collection
Identifier: RG 30-413
Scope and Contents
The William P. Norris Papers reflect his long career as a professor of sociology at Oberlin College from 1978 to 2008. Beginning with his Peace Corps work in Bahia, Brazil, Norris was deeply engaged with issues of poverty, housing, and economic structures in Brazil, Pittsburgh, and Lorain, Ohio. This is reflected in his writings, talks, professional papers, research project files, and course files. His research files on LGBT issues reflect his activism and advocacy, but his Oberlin...
Dates:
1880-2017, undated; Other: Majority of material found within 1970 - 2004; Other: Date acquired: 2000 May 23
Found in:
Oberlin College Archives
William Willis Curtis Papers
Collection
Identifier: RG 30-071
Scope and Contents
The papers of William Willis Curtis consist mainly of diaries, notebooks, and correspondence. The diaries and notebooks contain a partial record of events, accounts, and miscellany of which most was kept during the period in Japan, mainly Osaka, Sendai, and Sapporo. Series VII and Series XI contain records related to missionary work in Japan. Curtis was involved in operating boys’ schools and, in the 1890s, he worked in prisons. After 1900, the family letters in Series V. Letters and...
Dates:
1826-1968, undated; Majority of material found within 1863 - 1913; Other: Date acquired: 04/19/1973
Found in:
Oberlin College Archives
Wolfgang and Ursula Stechow Papers
Collection
Identifier: RG 30-238
Scope and Contents
The papers of Wolfgang Stechow and his wife Ursula Hoff Stechow primarily document facets of Wolfgang Stechow’s greatest academic interest—the history of art. His non-textual research and teaching materials, correspondence, and academic papers all serve to enlighten the scholar of Stechow's teaching methods, professional esteem by colleagues, and scholastic topics.
These research and teaching materials, which make up the bulk of the Stechow papers, include photographs, study...
Dates:
1894 - 1998; Majority of material found within 1927 - 1977; Other: Date acquired: 1986 January 21
Found in:
Oberlin College Archives
Woman's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU), Oberlin Chapter Records
Collection
Identifier: RG 31-006-004
Scope and Contents
The records consist of minutes of meetings (14 vols.), treasurer’s books (3 vols.), printed programs, membership lists, newspaper obituaries and other clippings, correspondence, financial records, and some printed matter of state or national origin.
Dates:
1874-1976, undated; Other: Date acquired: 03/10/1975
Found in:
Oberlin College Archives
Women's Progressive Club of Oberlin Records
Collection — 1 folder
Identifier: RG 31-006-013
Scope and Contents
One yearly program for 1912, titled “Calendar of the Women’s Progressive Club,” lists officers, members, meeting places, and topics of discussion.
Dates:
1912-1927
Found in:
Oberlin College Archives
Woodbury-Fay Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: RG 30-315
Scope and Contents
The small collection of the papers of the Woodbury-Fay families are arranged into three series: 1. Biographical File; 2. Correspondence; and 3. Photographs and Illustrations.
There are various spellings of the names of the members of this family. Mehetabel Pettengill, in particular, appears in different spellings by various correspondents. She herself spelled her name Mehetabel Pettengill.
Dates:
1819-1929, undated; Majority of material found in 1819-1865; Other: Date acquired: 1998 July 13
Found in:
Oberlin College Archives