postcards
Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Found in 56 Collections and/or Records:
Mark M. Heald Papers
Collection
Identifier: RG 30-159
Scope and Contents
The Mark Mortimer Heald Papers primarily document his early life in Illinois, Oberlin (1910-16), Minnesota (1916-17), and Germany and France both during and after World War I (1918-19). Specific periods of interest represented by the collection are Heald’s high school days in Illinois (1906-10), his time as a college student (1910-14), his work at Oberlin Academy and Oberlin College (1914-16), his fellowship at the University of Minnesota (1916-17), his military service (1917-1919), and...
Dates:
1902 - 2017; Majority of material found in 1902-1947; Other: Date acquired: 1980 June 4
Found in:
Oberlin College Archives
Mary Rudd Cochran Papers
Collection
Identifier: RG 30-282
Scope and Contents
The Mary Rudd Cochran papers primarily consist of biographical files, correspondence, financial and property files, professional records, writings files, and photographs. Though the papers cover many activities of her life, the collection mainly documents her private life as a member of an educated, upper middle class family. Her personal files detail life as a child and into adulthood, which focuses much on the Cochran family and their interactions with two other great families of...
Dates:
1882 - 1988; Other: Date acquired: 1995 February 1
Found in:
Oberlin College Archives
Oberlin Consumers Cooperative Records
Collection
Identifier: RG 31-029
Scope and Contents
The records of the Oberlin Consumers Cooperative document the history of this socio-economic organization, which operated on the Rochdale principles of cooperation. The records include the articles of incorporation and bylaws, minutes, financial records, administrative files, correspondence, contracts and other legal documents, subject files, building project files, printed matter, and non-textual material.
The records span the history of the Oberlin Consumers Cooperative (OCC)...
Dates:
1896-2002; Majority of material found in 1940-2000; Other: Date acquired: 00/00/2001
Found in:
Oberlin College Archives
Office of the Treasurer Records
Collection
Identifier: RG 07
Scope and Contents
The records of the Treasurer's Office date from 1822 to 1997. They include incoming and outgoing correspondence, bills and receipts, records of student manual labor and teacher pay, student account and scholarship records, files and ledgers documenting gifts and bequests, and financial statements of student organizations. Topics covered in these records include the establishment, organization, and funding of Oberlin College, biographical and financial information on individual...
Dates:
1822 - 1997; Other: Date acquired: 00/00/1967
Found in:
Oberlin College Archives
Paul B. Arnold Collection
Collection
Identifier: RG 30-254
Scope and Contents
The Paul B. Arnold Collection represents only a portion of the life and work of professor and artist Paul B. Arnold. The materials in the collection are diverse and represent Arnold’s varied and prolific career as an artist and as a professor at Oberlin College and Conservatory. The bulk of the collection is made up of course materials, published writings, and speeches relating to Arnold’s teaching career between 1942 and 1985 at Oberlin College and Conservatory. The collection also...
Dates:
ca. 1900-2013; Other: Date acquired: 1992 August 8
Found in:
Oberlin College Archives
Photographs: View Books and Other Publications
Collection
Identifier: RG 32-012
Scope and Contents
This photograph group includes five Oberlin College viewbooks dating from 1911 through 1922. In Series 1, this record group also includes College-published calendars, programs, and books ranging in date from about 1900 through 2015. In Series two, there are loose photogrpahs and books dating from 1888 through 1976.
Dates:
1888-2015; Majority of material found in 1888-1925
Found in:
Oberlin College Archives
Postcard Collection
Collection
Identifier: RG 36
Scope and Contents
The Oberlin College Archives postcard collection, Record Group 36, consists of approximately 5500 black and white and color cards, ca. 1890s (1900-30)-2004, and undated. The collection includes scenes from states and cities in the United States (arranged by state and cities within states), countries around the world, occasion cards (i.e., Thanksgiving, birthdays, World War I, and Easter), paintings in art galleries, and scenes from Oberlin, Ohio and the state of Ohio. The Oberlin College...
Dates:
1890 - 2004; Majority of material found in 1900-1930; Other: Date acquired: 01/01/1967
Found in:
Oberlin College Archives
Raymond T. Moyer Papers
Collection
Identifier: RG 30-260
Scope and Contents
The Raymond T. Moyer papers consist of correspondence, writing files, speeches, lectures, and topical files, as well as non-textual materials and collected publications. The collection covers Moyer’s professional career in Far East Asia, dating from the 1920s to his retirement in the 1960s. This documentation suggests that Moyer was not a Cold War warrior, à la John Foster Dulles, but that he probably stood near the center of the political spectrum. The files attest to his commitment to...
Dates:
1913 - 2000; Majority of material found in 1921-1980; Other: Date acquired: 1995 October 27
Found in:
Oberlin College Archives
Richard Lothrop Papers
Collection
Identifier: RG 30-293
Scope and Contents
The Richard Lothrop Papers document Oberlin’s history in the later 20th Century through his writings, his service on the Oberlin City Council, and his relationships with the Oberlin College Librarian, the Archivist, family and friends, on and off campus.
The writings include copies of Lothrop’s “Elm Street Thoughts” column written from the 1970s until 2003, and his “History of the Oberlin College Library,” a student publication (1967). Other materials include Oberlin City...
Dates:
1934-2005, undated; Other: Date acquired: 1998 March 2
Found in:
Oberlin College Archives
Ruth Easton Papers
Collection
Identifier: RG 30-098
Scope and Contents
Ruth Easton’s personal financial records dating from 1952 until after her death in 1957 make up the greater part of this collection. Her guardian and later executor of her estate, Robert Barr, Assistant Secretary of the College, presumably kept most of these materials. Evidence of a five hundred dollar gift to Oberlin College from her estate for the Ruth Easton Scholarship Fund exists in the form of an acknowledgement slip dated April 19, 1958.
The collection is divided into three...
Dates:
1952 - 1958; Other: Date acquired: 12/21/1976
Found in:
Oberlin College Archives