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Scope and Contents Geoffrey T. Blodgett’s career as a professor and scholar of American history at Oberlin College is well documented in these papers, from his appointment at Oberlin in 1960 to his retirement in 2000 and death in 2001. A small amount of material dates from prior to his faculty appointment. There is very little of a personal nature in the papers, but his correspondence with respected and valued colleagues, as well as many former students, reveal warm relationships with many of them and...

Scope and Contents The Henry Churchill King Presidential Papers abundandocument King’s service to Oberlin College as teacher, preacher, and president.  His contributions to wartime Europe as a chaplain and diplomat are also well recorded.  Two-thirds of the papers consist of professional correspondence (1897-1928), alphabetically arranged by correspondent; a name index and calendar (1976) to the bulk of this correspondence is available in the Archives.  Correspondents include Cass Gilbert, Charles Martin Hall,...

Scope and Contents The papers of John E. Wirkler primarily document his work as director of the Men's and Women's Glee Club of Oberlin College. The collection contains programs and publicity, sheet music, and scrapbooks relating to the Glee Clubs. Of particular interest are the words and music to songs performed by the Glee Clubs. Included is sheet music to the popular song of the 1940s and 1950s at Oberlin entitled "I'll Be with You Where You Are" (1946). Also included in the...

Scope and Contents The Objects Collection comprises over 500 objects as of 2024, most of which are not associated with another record group or personal paper group. All of the objects have been photographed and described for an image database at http://cdm15963.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/landingpage/collection/objects. This image database, titled the Archives Museum Collection, also holds digital surrogates for...

Scope and Contents The collection of Sela G. Wright consists primarily of letters, 1847-66, written by Wright or his relatives. Included are Wright’s letters from Red lake, Minnesota, while among the Ojibwe Indians, which are partly written in Ojibwe; letters written while working with the Black community in the South, 1863-66; a letter containing a description of a sailor’s death off Java, 1847; and a letter containing information concerning the funeral services by C.G. Finney for an Oberlin student,...