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Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Found in 374 Collections and/or Records:
Student Life: Religious Organizations Records
Collection
Identifier: RG 19-003-001
Scope and Contents
The earliest records in this group reflect Oberlin’s support of missionary endeavors of Protestant organizations both at home and abroad in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.The organizations affiliated with Christian missionary activity were the Foreign Missionary Volunteers, the Students Missionary Society, the Student Volunteer Band, the Union Missionary Society, the Young Ladies Missionary Society, and the Young People’s Society of Christian Endeavor. Later twentieth and...
Dates:
1852-2012, undated; Other: Date acquired: 01/16/1979
Found in:
Oberlin College Archives
Student Life: Residences: Third World House
Collection
Identifier: RG 19-001-004
Dates:
1971-2019; Majority of material found in 1974-1997; Other: Date acquired: 07/14/1997
Found in:
Oberlin College Archives
Student Life: Social Organizations
Collection
Identifier: RG 19-003-008
Scope and Contents
This record group consists of records related to various social organizations at Oberlin College.
Dates:
1938-2022
Found in:
Oberlin College Archives
Student Life: Student Publications
Collection
Identifier: RG 19-000-001
Scope and Contents
This record group consists of archival and duplicate sets of student publications, microfilmed issues of 15 publications, and other records related to student publications. This includes historical information and charters. It is arranged in four record series.
Dates:
1858-2024; Other: Date acquired: 00/00/1996
Found in:
Oberlin College Archives
Student Life: WOBC Radio Station Records
Collection
Identifier: RG 19-007
Scope and Contents
This collection has been divided into two subgroups: papers and audio recordings. The papers subgroup includes four series. It includes adminstrative information about WOBC and program guides. There is a small group of non-textual materials, including photographs. The audio recordings subgroup consists mostly of reel-to-reel tapes from the 1960s through 1990s.
Dates:
1942-2011, undated; Other: Date acquired: 03/08/1988
Found in:
Oberlin College Archives
Student Life: Women's Organizations Records
Collection
Identifier: RG 19-003-005-000
Abstract
This general collection holds records of various Oberlin College women's organizations.
Dates:
1903-2002, undated; Other: Date acquired: 01/25/1988
Found in:
Oberlin College Archives
Susan Rowena Bird Papers
Collection
Identifier: RG 30-351
Scope and Contents
The papers of Susan Rowena Bird (1865-1900) and the Bird family provide a good source for study of the missionary settlement in Shanxi Province, China, and its programs prior to the Boxer Rebellion of 1900. The collection consists primarily of correspondence from Susan Rowena Bird during her time in China as a missionary, as well as letters from other residents of the Taigu community and other Bird family members.
Susan Rowena Bird was a member of the “Oberlin Band,” the group of...
Dates:
1843-1945, undated; Other: Majority of material found in 1843-1932; Other: Date acquired: 2001 September 26
Found in:
Oberlin College Archives
Sylvia H. Williams Papers
Collection
Identifier: RG 30-359
Scope and Contents
The papers of Sylvia H. Williams primarily document her role as a curator at the Brooklyn Museum of Art, 1971-1983, and as Director of the National Museum of African Art at the Smithsonian Institution, 1983-1996. The biographical files, correspondence, clippings, writings, and awards and diplomas provide documentation concerning her education, her interest in art and African Art, her work at the Brooklyn Museum and the Smithsonian Institute, and her accomplishments as a successful...
Dates:
1952-1997, undated; Other: Majority of material found in 1971-1996; Other: Date acquired: 2003 January 3
Found in:
Oberlin College Archives
Sylvia Olden Lee Papers
Collection
Identifier: RG 30-369
Scope and Contents
The Sylvia Olden Lee papers range in date from 1843 to 2004 and provide information about her career, her personal projects, and research interests. While the topics covered by materials in this collection largely relate to music and the musical projects Olden Lee undertook, many other subjects are represented also, such as racial equality and travel. The materials are arranged into seven series: 1. Biographical; 2. Correspondence; 3. Name Files; 4. Teaching and Project Files; 5. Programs...
Dates:
1843-2004, undated; Other: Date acquired: 2004 April 21
Found in:
Oberlin College Archives
The Oberlin Group Records
Collection
Identifier: RG 58
Scope and Contents
The records of the Oberlin Group cover several years of collaborative effort between numerous liberal arts college libraries across the country from 1986 to 2013. These records provide documentation of the history, administration and management of the Oberlin Group, from the group’s initial meeting at the Oberlin College Library in 1986 through 2013. Several important technological advances and important collegiate changes such as the introduction and development of the Internet,...
Dates:
1985-2013; Other: Date acquired: 11/17/2015
Found in:
Oberlin College Archives