daybooks

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...

Scope and Contents In his daybook Warner recorded tasks as a student employee at Oberlin College, including hours, cost of supplies and pay; pay for odd job work for residents of Oberlin; Oberlin Sabbath School Association financial records (1863); inventory of his personal library including date of purchase and cost; bills and receipts for medical office of S.C. Warner (1866); and an inventory of Agnes E. Warner’s personal library. The eight photographs in the collection are of Lucien Warner at several...

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...

Scope and Contents The voluminous files document the full range of archival functions carried out by the staff operating under William E. Bigglestone, Roland M. Baumann, and Kenneth M. Grossi, respectively, over more than five decades. In particular the records handsomely document the acquisition of collections, the nature and level of reference activity, the role played by the unit on the instructional front, and the unit’s ongoing struggle for institutional support to keep pace with the growing...

Scope and Contents The records of the Treasurer's Office date from 1822 to 1997.  They include incoming and outgoing correspondence, bills and receipts, records of student manual labor and teacher pay, student account and scholarship records, files and ledgers documenting gifts and bequests, and financial statements of student organizations.  Topics covered in these records include the establishment, organization, and funding of Oberlin College, biographical and financial information on individual...