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Kirke L. and Mary T. Cowdery Papers
Collection
Identifier: RG 30-010
Abstract
This small collection consists of materials that document the study and teaching of the French language.
Dates:
1890-1928; Other: Date acquired: 01/22/1968
Found in:
Oberlin College Archives
Logan Omer Osborn Papers
Collection
Identifier: RG 30-191
Scope and Contents
The papers of Logan Omer Osborn primarily relate to Osborn's student days at the Oberlin Business School and Oberlin College, and his military service with the U.S. Ambulance Corps, Oberlin Unit (1918-19). His student files consist of printed material from Oberlin College (i.e., football program, handbook, student organization), notes for a physics class (1913) and summer school (1915), a subscription book (1916) for a magazine organized by Osborn and Robert M. Hutchins (Honorary War...
Dates:
ca. 1911-1940, undated; Other: Date acquired: 1988 May 8
Found in:
Oberlin College Archives
Lucy Fletcher Kellogg Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: RG 30-088
Scope and Contents
This collection, which consists of correspondence, notebooks, legal papers, and printed materials, documents the lives of Lucy Fletcher Kellogg and her family.Kellogg's account of her life is preserved in both manuscript and printed forms, 1879 and 1881. In addition to information on family life and changes of residence, Kellogg describes her youth in New England, where she produced textiles in her parents' home to support herself. Family letters (1836-1851) discuss feelings of...
Dates:
1829-1899; Other: Date acquired: 1975 June 13
Found in:
Oberlin College Archives
Mary Elizabeth Rodhouse Creglow Papers
Collection
Identifier: RG 30-144
Scope and Contents
Mary Elizabeth Rodhouse Creglow's undated writings make up the bulk of the collection along with some correspondence and religious school lessons. Her numerous poems, stories, and plays for both children and adults are mostly moralistic or religious, though a few are adventures or detective stories. A 20-page essay titled "Optimism: Is It Rational?" and three articles from the 1930s on VA hospital libraries are also included in the collection. Some correspondence exists on her...
Dates:
1909 - 1963; Other: Date acquired: 02/23/1981
Found in:
Oberlin College Archives
Mary F. Tenney Papers
Collection
Identifier: RG 30-181
Scope and Contents
This small collection includes materials from the Tenney and the Snedeker families. Both families were early settlers in the Lorain County region of Ohio, and are connected by the marriage of Mary’s parents, Bernard Tenney and Sadie Snedeker, in 1895. The Tenney family has a long history with Oberlin College spanning multiple generations.
Series I pertains to Mary Francis Tenney and her family. Her photo album, dating from the mid- to late 19th century,...
Dates:
1860-ca.1960s; Other: Date acquired: 1978 August 23
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
Mary S. Yocom Papers
Collection
Identifier: RG 30-079
Scope and Contents
The Mary S. Yocom Papers comprise a small collection consisting of correspondence, records, printed matter, writing, and photographs. The collection is arranged in six record series. Items in several record series relate to the history of the Kindergarten-Primary Training Program in Oberlin.
Dates:
ca. 1919-1968, undated; Other: Date acquired: 08/28/1973
Found in:
Oberlin College Archives
Nichols Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: RG 30-372
Scope and Contents
The papers of the Nichols Family primarily document the career of Ruth Alexander Nichols as a photographer and businesswoman and range from letters to and from diverse family members to photographs and negatives. These materials provide an example of a successful commercial photographer who was almost entirely self-taught. Ruth Alexander Nichols began her career as a photographer out of necessity, finding herself widowed in the first half of the twentieth century, an age when single...
Dates:
1884-1962, undated; Other: Majority of material found in 1911-1934; Other: Date acquired: 2004 June 15
Found in:
Oberlin College Archives
Nineteenth Century Club Records
Collection
Identifier: RG 31-006-003
Scope and Contents
The records of the Nineteenth Century Club document club activities and history. The materials consist of club minutes, financial records, annual yearbooks, correspondence, memorabilia, printed materials, photographs, videotapes, and objects.
The club’s administrative records include both minutes and financial records but do not include materials prior to 1904. The minutes span from 1904 to 2009 with some gaps, the largest being 1915-1938. Financial records reside both in a...
Dates:
1901-2011, undated; Other: Date acquired: 10/11/2001
Found in:
Oberlin College Archives
O. Mark and Gertrude Richards Papers
Collection
Identifier: RG 30-275
Scope and Contents
The papers of O. Mark and Gertrude Hocking Richards (OMR and GHR) constitute family documents preserved over several generations. Files mainly consist of correspondence, diaries (of Gertrude Richards), genealogical records, newspaper clippings, unpublished family reminiscences and poems, publications, and photographs. A genealogical survey, tracing the family back to 1585, stands out as an accomplishment and illustrates how a family traces its history. The collection provides a...
Dates:
1909-1996, undated; Other: Date acquired: 1996 July 1
Found in:
Oberlin College Archives