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Everett D. Hawkins Papers
Collection
Identifier: RG 30-130
Scope and Contents
The papers of Everett Day Hawkins mainly document the two years Hawkins spent in Taigu, China, as a Shansi Representative of Oberlin College (1927-29). Later materials pertain to Hawkins' service in Chungking with the U.S. Office of War Information (1944-46). Virtually no record exists in these papers of Hawkins' teaching career at Mt. Holyoke College and the University of Wisconsin; his government service; or his scholarship in Southeast Asian development economics.
Hawkins'...
Dates:
1900-1972; Majority of material found in 1927-1946; Other: Date acquired: 04/09/1979
Found in:
Oberlin College Archives
F. Champion Ward Papers
Collection
Identifier: RG 30-278
Scope and Contents
This small collection, until 2016, only held materials from F. Champion Ward. That year, more materials were received, the bulk of which originated with Champion Ward’s wife, R. Duira Baldinger Ward. The collection has been rearranged into two subgroups. Subgroup I contains the original F. Champion Ward materials in the collection, plus additional correspondence received in 2016. Subgroup II holds materials from Duira Ward.
Dates:
1949 - 2011; Other: Date acquired: 1996 April 24
Found in:
Oberlin College Archives
First Methodist Church Records
Collection
Identifier: RG 31-003-004
Scope and Contents
The First Methodist Church records have been arranged into nine series. The collection includes administrative and legal records, membership rolls, women's society and committee records, and historical files.
Dates:
1860-1990, undated; Other: Date acquired: 06/22/1992
Found in:
Oberlin College Archives
Florence Mary Fitch Papers
Collection
Identifier: RG 30-037
Abstract
The papers of Florence Mary Fitch relate to Fitch's student years in Oberlin, Munich, and Berlin (1892-97; 1900-03) and her subsequent career at Oberlin College as a biblical scholar and writer of children's books. They also contain materials relating to three preceding generations of the Fitch family (1807-1936). Virtually no record exists in these papers of Florence Fitch's tenure as Dean of Women at Oberlin (1904-20). The records of the Office of the Dean of Students (Record Group 12)...
Dates:
1807-1959; Majority of material found in 1892-1917; Other: Date acquired: 04/17/1969
Found in:
Oberlin College Archives
Frances J. Cade and E. John Hamlin Papers
Collection
Identifier: RG 30-418
Scope and Contents
The papers, photographs, and objects originating with Frances Cade and E. John Hamlin reflect the lives of two Oberlin graduates who met during their service in China as Shansi representatives in the mid-1930s, and continued after their marriage in 1942 to pursue a lifetime of service in the Far East. Both the Hamlins wrote articles for their hometown newspapers during their time at Taigu, and gave presentations on their experiences later in life as employees of the World Council of...
Dates:
BCE-2010, undated; Other: Majority of material found in 1934-48; 1982-89; Other: Date acquired: 1981 June 22
Found in:
Oberlin College Archives
Frances J. Hosford Papers
Collection
Identifier: RG 30-035
Scope and Contents
The Frances J. Hosford Papers (1835-1966, date span), organized as an alphabetical file, contains correspondence, including reminiscences, copies of manuscripts, and research materials. Individuals and subjects covered include Antoinette Brown Blackwell, Betsy Mix Cowles, Mary Hosford Fisher, Charles Grandison Finney, Marianne Parker Dascomb, the Amistad case, antislavery, the Oberlin-Wellington Rescue, early Oberlin women, and Elmira and Wesleyan colleges. Statistics on the occupational...
Dates:
1925-1935; Other: Date acquired: 03/27/1969
Found in:
Oberlin College Archives
Frances Theresa Densmore Papers
Collection
Identifier: RG 30-156
Scope and Contents
The papers of Frances Densmore consist of letters, notes, and sketches created during Miss Densmore's student years at the Oberlin College Conservatory of Music from 1884 to 1887, and writings dating from the 1920s to 1954. The correspondence consists of portions of letters written to her parents which she subsequently pasted on sheets of paper, numbered, and transcribed. Letters cover such topics as life in Ladies Hall, her organ lessons, recitals attended, and music she studied. She...
Dates:
1886-1954; Other: Date acquired: 1983 March 1
Found in:
Oberlin College Archives
Frances Walker-Slocum Papers
Collection
Identifier: RG 30-222
Scope and Contents
The papers of Frances Walker-Slocum contain biographical material, correspondence, greeting cards, performance and recital programs, ephemera, publicity files, and several scrapbooks. The bulk of the collection is made up of greeting cards, performance programs, and publicity materials. The most significant materials are the performance programs in series 3. Dating from the 1940s to the mid-2000s, these files document Walker-Slocum's performances at Oberlin College and at venues across...
Dates:
1906 - 2011; Other: Date acquired: 06/10/1991
Found in:
Oberlin College Archives
Francis Marion Price Papers
Collection
Identifier: RG 30-395
Scope and Contents
The Francis Price Papers make up a small collection arranged into six series: I. Correspondence; II. Diary and Journal; III. Printed Matter; IV. Photograph Album; V. Scrapbook; and VI. Artifacts. None of these series holds extensive material, and together they present a limited picture of the life and work of Francis Price. The most interesting item resides in Series II, a typescript of letters by his sister-in-law Eva J. Price from June 28 to July 1 of 1900, just before the family was...
Dates:
1888-1937, undated; Other: Date acquired: 2008 January 22
Found in:
Oberlin College Archives
Francis W. and Lydia Lord Davis Papers
Collection
Identifier: RG 30-080
Abstract
The papers of the Rev. Francis Ward Davis (1857-1900) and his wife, Lydia Clara Lord Davis (1867-1952), constitute an excellent source for the study of the lives of China missionaries up to the time of the Boxer Rebellion of 1900 in which Francis Davis was killed. The couple's eight-year residence (1889-97) in Shansi Province as Congregational missionaries under appointment of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions (A.B.C.F.B.) is well documented. The post-1900 papers...
Dates:
1877-1944; Majority of material found within 1889-1913; Other: Date acquired: 07/18/1973
Found in:
Oberlin College Archives