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Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Found in 374 Collections and/or Records:
Clyde Amos Holbrook Papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: RG 30-198
Scope and Contents
The papers of Clyde Holbrook, Danforth Professor Emeritus of Religion, consist primarily of lecture notes and writings from eight classes that he taught in Oberlin College’s Department of Religion from 1958 to 1985. The collection does not include any correspondence or other personal papers relating to Holbrook’s campus and community activities. According to Mrs. Holbrook, her late husband did not retain his own correspondence files. The biographical series contains some documentation...
Dates:
1934-1989, undated; Other: Date acquired: 1989 April 24
Found in:
Oberlin College Archives
College General Records
Record Group
Identifier: RG 00
Abstract
The College General group consists of all printed materials produced by the academic and administrative units of Oberlin College. For the convenience of staff and users, these printed materials have been gathered under this single title, but they may also be found in the record groups relating to particular office functions.
Dates:
1834-2024; Other: Date acquired: 1966
Found in:
Oberlin College Archives
Communication Studies Department
Collection
Identifier: RG 09-011
Scope and Contents
The records of the Communication Studies Department contain materials from its predecessors, the Communication Department (1967-1972) and the Speech Department (1952-1967), as well as some early records from the Forensic Union, a student organization founded in 1927. Consisting of three accessions, as reported on the title page, the third accession followed the suspension of the Department in academic year 1986. The material transferred is an incomplete record of this once well known...
Dates:
1929 - 1985; Other: Date acquired: 05/29/1973
Found in:
Oberlin College Archives
Curtis Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: RG 30-059
Abstract
The Curtis family papers document Howard Cone Curtis’s position as a physical education instructor at Oberlin College through correspondence received between the years of 1915-19. Mary Long Goldsbury’s time at Oberlin College is chronicled through her 1884 diary. The collection also contains correspondence as well as printed matter documenting missionary work of members of the Curtis family.
Dates:
1842-1919, undated; Other: Date acquired: 10/01/1971
Found in:
Oberlin College Archives
Dale Broadhurst Papers
Collection — 1 box
Identifier: RG 30-294
Scope and Contents
The Dale Broadhurst Papers consist of materials relating to his research concerning the Solomon Spaulding manuscript and its relationship to the Book of Mormon. Documents include transcriptions of the Spaulding Manuscript and comparative textual studies of its contents. Also included are three computer diskettes containing computer copies of included documents and a CD-ROM about the Spaulding manuscript and the Book of Mormon produced in part by Broadhurst. Also included is a copy of...
Dates:
1979 - 2005; Majority of material found in 1979-2000; Other: Date acquired: 1981 January 1
Found in:
Oberlin College Archives
Dale R. Johnson Papers
Collection
Identifier: RG 30-375
Scope and Contents
The papers of Dale R. Johnson consist primarily of documents regarding a Buddhist temple which was owned for some time by Oberlin College. This temple is an exact replica of an 18th century temple in Jehol Province, China, itself built on the pattern of the Dalai Lama’s monastic temple in Lhasa, Tibet. The replica was built in China and displayed at the 1931 Chicago International Exhibition and the 1939 New York World’s Fair. It was then disassembled and put into storage, and in 1943 donated...
Dates:
ca. 1931-1998, undated; Other: Majority of material found within 1957 - 1986; Other: Date acquired: 2004 October 25
Found in:
Oberlin College Archives
Dan Beach Bradley Papers
Collection
Identifier: RG 30-005
Scope and Contents
The family papers of Dan Beach Bradley consist of letters, letterpress books, diaries, diary transcripts, journals, notebooks, writings, photographs, and a painting. The bulk of the papers document the missionary careers of the Rev. Dan Beach Bradley (1804-73) and his first wife, Emilie Royce Bradley (1811-45) in nineteenth-century Siam (modern Thailand). The collection also includes a small amount of correspondence and writings created by two of their children, Sophia Royce Bradley...
Dates:
1800-1980s; Majority of material found in 1800-1873; Other: Date acquired: 03/23/1971
Found in:
Oberlin College Archives
Dan Freeman Bradley Papers
Collection
Identifier: RG 30-125
Scope and Contents
Consists of original letters and photocopies; an issue of the Bangkok calendar (1864), printed by Dan Beach Bradley; the will (1893) of Sarah Blachly Bradley; writings and addresses (1892-1937, undated); and a photograph album showing scenes of Bangkok (ca. 1889). Most of the letters were written between 1877 and 1892 by Dan F. Bradley to his mother and siblings in Bangkok, Thailand. They describe Bradley's student days from 1877 to 1885 at Oberlin College and Oberlin Theological...
Dates:
1865 - 1937; Other: Date acquired: 08/10/1979
Found in:
Oberlin College Archives
Daniel A. Harris Papers
Collection
Identifier: RG 30-166
Scope and Contents
The Daniel A. Harris Papers comprise a very small collection of printed matter that advertised and reviewed productions in which Harris performed, and those of singers from the Oberlin Conservatory such as his student Jane Marsh. The collection includes posters for operas, program notes, newspaper clippings and show reviews, lyrics from Harris’ productions, and alumni and miscellaneous magazines. The papers shed light on trends in music education and performance, and the global expanse...
Dates:
1941-1969, undated; Other: Date acquired: 1988
Found in:
Oberlin College Archives
Daniel Chapin Kinsey Papers
Collection
Identifier: RG 30-048
Abstract
The personal papers of Daniel Chapin Kinsey, 1922-70, primarily document the teaching and coaching career of a member of the Department of Physical Education for Men at Oberlin College. Indirectly, the historical materials also provide information about an academic department that was opposed to the growing trend of professionalism in collegiate athletics and continued to support the belief that athletics were a means of accomplishing the aims of education in general. There is modest...
Dates:
1922-1970, undated; Other: Date acquired: 07/13/1970
Found in:
Oberlin College Archives