photographs -- panoramas
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:
Frank T. Cooke Papers
Collection
Identifier: RG 30-287
Scope and Contents
The papers of Frank T. Cooke document his personal interest and professional career in photography. Many photographs of college buildings and houses in Oberlin are included in the collection. The pages of a disbound photographic album show Cooke and his family at Oberlin Beach along Lake Erie and demonstrate his concern for the eroding of the beach. Additional photographs were taken in several cities in Ohio, including Huron and Milan. Notably, the photographs in the later accession...
Dates:
1872 - 2006; Majority of material found in 1914-1997; Other: Date acquired: 1997 September 28
Found in:
Oberlin College Archives
Lois Blakely Orbell Papers
Collection
Identifier: RG 30-218
Scope and Contents
The Lois Blakely Orbell Papers is a small collection of correspondence, musical performance programs, a clipping, and two panorama photographs of students at Oberlin College. The letters from Lois to her family span 1904-1928, with the majority written from Oberlin. A few letters are from Lois’ parents to Lois. After Lois Orbell’s death in 1985, two friends sent letters to an Orbell relative about her.
The programs, with one exception, feature piano performances by Lois Blakely...
Dates:
1900 - 1985; Majority of material found within 1910 - 1942; Other: Date acquired: 1991
Found in:
Oberlin College Archives
Paintings, Prints, Drawings, and Other Framed Items
Collection
Identifier: RG 40
Dates:
1803-ca. 2006, undated
Found in:
Oberlin College Archives
Photographs: Panorama and Other Rolled Photographs
Collection
Identifier: RG 32-011
Scope and Contents
This collection comprises Subgroup I, Flat Panorama Photographs and Subgroup II, Rolled Panorama and Other Rolled Photographs (cannot be flattened without conservation treatment). The panorama photographs were taken with special mechanized cameras such as the Cirkut, which made a wide sweep exposing a long roll of film to capture large groups or vistas. The time required to expose the broad sweep of film accounts for the appearance in some of these photographs of one individual at both...
Dates:
1868-1954; Majority of material found in 1906-1940; Other: Date acquired: 1966
Found in:
Oberlin College Archives
Thomas G. M. Simchak Photographs
Collection
Identifier: RG 30-365
Scope and Contents
The Thomas G.M. Simchak Photographs document his interest and participation in environmental, political, social, and outdoor activities, on campus and elsewhere. The collection consists of: Series 1. Photographic Prints from Thomas G.M. Simchak (approximately 931 prints); Series 2. Born-Digital Images on Compact Disks (2), containing 1,608 born-digital photographs, many of which are represented in the prints; and, Series 3. Reference Prints from Selected Born-Digital Images on CD-Roms...
Dates:
1999 - 2003; Other: Date acquired: 2003 June 3
Found in:
Oberlin College Archives