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Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Found in 56 Collections and/or Records:
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
Department of Art Records
Collection
Identifier: RG 09-028
Scope and Contents
This collection contains records of the Oberlin College Department of Art. It has been organized into six subgroups: Administrative Files, Degree Programs, Special Programs, Non-Textual Materials, Exhibitions and Publications, and Personnel Files. Each subgroup has been further subdivided into series.
Dates:
early 20th century - 2014 ; Other: Date acquired: 00/00/1995
Found in:
Oberlin College Archives
Dorothy Hedden Boyd Papers
Collection
Identifier: RG 30-203
Scope and Contents
The papers of Dorothy Hedden Boyd consist primarily of correspondence between Dorothy and her mother, Nellie Hedden, while Dorothy was a student at Oberlin College from 1921 to 1925. The papers also include a small amount of correspondence with other family members and her friends, miscellaneous papers of Dorothy Hedden Boyd and Nellie Hedden, and photographs of family members, Dorothy's wedding, and homes.
Dates:
1903-1945, undated; Majority of material found in 1921-1927; Other: Date acquired: 1989 August 25
Found in:
Oberlin College Archives
Douglas T. Ross Papers
Collection
Identifier: RG 30-261
Scope and Contents
The materials of Douglas T. Ross comprise of correspondence, diagrams, programs, clippings, and several scrapbooks. The bulk of the material is made up of scrapbook pages and clippings. The most significant materials are the clippings in Series 3. Dating from 1940s to the 1960s, the clippings document Ross’ significant contribution to the engineering world, through his creation of the Automatically Programmed Tool (APT) during his time working at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology...
Dates:
1941-1993, undated; Other: Date acquired: 2008 October 14
Found in:
Oberlin College Archives
Douglas V. Steere Papers
Collection
Identifier: RG 30-318
Abstract
The materials in the Douglas V. Steere Papers have exclusively to do with his interest in and study of John Frederick (Jean-Frédéric or Johann Friedrich) Oberlin (1740-1826), the Alsatian pastor who served in the Ban de la Roche region in the Vosges Mountains of Alsace in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. Steere visited Oberlin’s pastorate in the years following World War II, when he was involved in recovery efforts by the American...
Dates:
1910-1976, undated; Other: Date acquired: 1999 June 21
Found in:
Oberlin College Archives
E. Louise Appleton Stitt Papers
Collection
Identifier: RG 30-403
Dates:
1908-1996, undated; Other: Majority of material found in 1908-1914; Other: Date acquired: 2009 November 2
Found in:
Oberlin College Archives
E. Michael Hoffman Papers
Collection
Identifier: RG 30-069
Scope and Contents
The E. Michael Hoffman Papers consist primarily of correspondence and photographs taken by Hoffman while he was in Japan and Manchuria with the Young Men’s Christian Association (YMCA) from 1918 to 1920. Hoffman served in Yokohama, Japan, from November 1918 until February 1919, and then in Harbin, Manchuria until March 1920.
The heart of the papers, from 1918 to 1926, consists of about eighty letters written by Hoffman generally from Harbin and mainly to his family as well as...
Dates:
1912, 1918-1975, undated; Other: Date acquired: 11/20/1972
Found in:
Oberlin College Archives
Edith Bunker Davis Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: RG 30-232
Scope and Contents
The Edith Bunker Davis Family papers provide evidence of Mrs. Davis' concern to document the work in Africa (1891-1917) of her missionary parents, the Rev. Fred Robert Bunker and Isabel ("Belle") Bunker. The papers also supply information about the professional lives of Edith's brothers, Paul, Wilfrid, Kenneth, and Sydney. These men established successful careers in education, diplomacy, international business, and the Congregational ministry. Unfortunately, there is little...
Dates:
1857 - 1990; Majority of material found in 1916-1950
Found in:
Oberlin College Archives
Elizabeth Kadelbach Papers
Collection
Identifier: RG 30-050
Scope and Contents
This collection primarily consists of personal letters and postcards written to Elizabeth Kadelbach from Germany while she was in Oberlin, 1914-15. Almost all the letters are in German, and they mostly discuss events of World War I. Many of the postcard prints promote the German war effort.
Dates:
1914-1915; Other: Date acquired: 02/24/1971
Found in:
Oberlin College Archives
Emil C. and Mary Ann Danenberg Papers
Collection
Identifier: RG 30-393
Scope and Contents
The papers of Emil C. Danenberg (1917-1982) and Mary Ann Danenberg (1927-2008) document the lives and careers of the Danenbergs over an 82 year period. The arrangement of the Danenberg’s papers into two subgroups—the papers of Mary Ann Danenberg and the papers of Emil C. Danenberg—does not diminish the collaborative nature of the couple’s work. Although the bulk of the materials found in the collection relate to Mary Ann’s education and professional life, significant material relating to...
Dates:
1926-2008, undated; Other: Date acquired: 2006 October 2
Found in:
Oberlin College Archives