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Erwin H. Richards Papers
Collection
Identifier: RG 30-271
Scope and Contents
The Erwin H. Richards papers consist of a scrapbook, correspondence, writings, photographs and photograph albums, glass plate negatives, lantern slides, a map, and printer’s blocks that document the family’s missionary activity in Portuguese East Africa.
The writings constitute a significant portion of the Erwin H. Richards papers. Included are writings and translations by Richards, used as instructional tools during his missionary work in Africa. The writings by others also...
Dates:
1850 - 1994; Majority of material found in 1880-1910; Other: Date acquired: 1993 November 3
Found in:
Oberlin College Archives
Esther A. Close & Mary Maud Mann Papers
Collection
Identifier: RG 30-217
Scope and Contents
This collection is divided into three series, but largely consists of diaries and transcripts of two Oberlin students from the 1880s.
The collection contains little biographical information of either woman, apart from what can be gleamed from the everyday occurrences in their diaries.
Close and Mann were evidently friends, as well as cousins. Close’s diary mentions a “Maud” quite frequently, and as Mann’s student file lists her as “M. Maud Mann,” it is quite likely that...
Dates:
1884 - 1990; Majority of material found within 1884 - 1910; Other: Date acquired: 1990 June 18
Found in:
Oberlin College Archives
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
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
Francis F. and Emma B. Tucker Papers
Collection
Identifier: RG 30-322
Scope and Contents
The Francis F. and Emma B. Tucker Papers document the Tucker Family's involvement in missionary work and in medicine. The papers consist of correspondence, biographical material, photographs, a scrapbook, and Chinese picture postcards.
The collection is arranged in four series: I. Biographical Files, II. Correspondence Files, III. Photographic Files, and IV. Miscellaneous.
The biographical material includes typescript copies of speeches given in honor of Frances Fisher...
Dates:
ca. 1880s-1964; Other: Date acquired: 1999 December 16
Found in:
Oberlin College Archives
Gertrude M. Hoffman Papers
Collection
Identifier: RG 30-311
Scope and Contents
The papers of Gertrude M. Hoffman consist of two series: Series 1. Correspondence, and Series 2. Albums. The correspondence series comprises letters written to her family while she was teaching at the Oberlin Shansi Memorial School in Taigu, Shanxi, China, from 1933 to 1936. These letters describe her daily activities, classes taught, Chinese customs observed, visits to other parts of China and to Japan and Korea, and her study of the Chinese language. The March 1936 correspondence...
Dates:
1933 - 1936; Other: Date acquired: 1999 February 2
Found in:
Oberlin College Archives
Giles Waldo and Mary E. Burton Shurtleff Papers
Collection
Identifier: RG 30-032
Scope and Contents
The papers of Giles Waldo and Mary E. Burton Shurtleff consist, in large part, of their correspondence, 1862-1887. This is by far the richest series in the collection. Two hundred and twenty-one of the letters were written by Giles between 1861-65 while he was on active service. They detail the longing of the soldier for his girl (wife), military routine interspersed by the violence of his wartime world, and family matters. One letter was smuggled out of prison in a button in 1862. In...
Dates:
1846-1930; Majority of material found in 1854-1904; Other: Date acquired: 04/17/1969
Found in:
Oberlin College Archives
Hazel B. King Papers
Collection
Identifier: RG 30-211
Abstract
Letters and postcards from Olga Samarina (nee Niedziecka) to Hazel B. King or Charles Barker King, with the following exceptions:
One 28 November 1934 letter from Samarina’s mother following a visit to her daughter.
Two 1933 letters from Anna Kopitza (or Kapitza) of Cambridge, England, 17 March and 12 August.
One typed carbon of letter of 16 April 1947 by Hazel B. King to Olga Samarina.
Dissertation extract (booklet) by Harold Lee King, 1914.
Dates:
1914-1947, undated; Other: Date acquired: 1990 February 9
Found in:
Oberlin College Archives
Henry Churchill King Presidential Papers
Collection
Identifier: RG 02-006
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,...
Dates:
1873-1934, undated; Majority of material found in 1902-1927; Other: Date acquired: 1967
Found in:
Oberlin College Archives
Inda Howland Papers
Collection
Identifier: RG 30-320
Scope and Contents
The papers of Inda Howland primarily document her career as a teacher of Eurhythmics and Music Theory at Oberlin College. Two notebooks and sheet music illustrate Howland’s teaching methods. In addition, the collection includes some materials relating to Emile Jaques-Dalcroze, a pioneer in Eurhythmics, and the L’Instititute Jaques-Dalcroze.
A small amount of biographical information consists of materials relating to the memorial service for Inda Howland, September 23, 1984...
Dates:
1934-1984, undated; Other: Date acquired: 1999 September 23
Found in:
Oberlin College Archives