Printed ephemera -- Ephemera
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 131 Collections and/or Records:
Walter L. Hopkins Papers
Collection
Identifier: RG 30-220
Scope and Contents
The Walter Leland Hopkins papers document his service with the United States Army Ambulance Service during World War I. This period of service from 1917 to 1919 is the only period documented in the records. Little is known about his life prior to or after joining the ambulance service. Hopkins served with the Princeton University Ambulance Section, 523. The papers consist of correspondence, photographs and ephemera collected by Hopkins.
The richest source material is found in...
Dates:
1917-1919; Other: Date acquired: 1971 January 1
Found in:
Oberlin College Archives
Warren Taylor Papers
Collection
Identifier: RG 30-015
Abstract
The papers of Warren Taylor relate primarily to the professional life of an Oberlin College professor. Their contents reflect Taylor's interest in collecting evidence of his achievements. His friendships with students were important to him and are recorded in correspondence spanning forty years. Lecture notes used in his popular English and American literature courses are not present in the collection, although there is material relating to the academic programs Taylor initiated. There is...
Dates:
1924-1990; Majority of material found in 1925-73; Other: Date acquired: 06/28/1968
Found in:
Oberlin College Archives
William A. Westervelt Papers
Collection
Identifier: RG 30-120
Scope and Contents
The William A. Westervelt Papers reflect his coursework at Oberlin College and Theological Seminary in the 1830s and 1840s, and his career as a minister and itinerant preacher in Ohio from the 1840s through the 1870s. Westervelt’s student notes from lectures at Oberlin are of interest for their light on the content of early courses by professors Charles Grandison Finney, Amasa Walker, James Dascomb, and others.
The bulk of the papers comprise notes for sermons and orations....
Dates:
1838-1908, undated; Majority of material found in 1842-1869; Other: Date acquired: 01/02/1979
Found in:
Oberlin College Archives
William Edwards and Eleanor Bumstead Stevenson Papers
Collection
Identifier: RG 30-219
Scope and Contents
The papers of William Edwards Stevenson (1900-85) and his wife Eleanor Bumstead Stevenson (1902-87) document the joint public service careers of the Stevensons over a period of forty-five years. Correspondence with their families (1917-25) and with each other (1924-25), as well as genealogical records such as diaries, wills, and marriage certificates, bring to light the privileged New England childhoods and family relationships which fostered their social ideals. The arrangement of the...
Dates:
1809 - 1987; Majority of material found in 1917-1925, 1942-85; Other: Date acquired: 1979 October 4
Found in:
Oberlin College Archives
William P. Norris Papers
Collection
Identifier: RG 30-413
Scope and Contents
The William P. Norris Papers reflect his long career as a professor of sociology at Oberlin College from 1978 to 2008. Beginning with his Peace Corps work in Bahia, Brazil, Norris was deeply engaged with issues of poverty, housing, and economic structures in Brazil, Pittsburgh, and Lorain, Ohio. This is reflected in his writings, talks, professional papers, research project files, and course files. His research files on LGBT issues reflect his activism and advocacy, but his Oberlin...
Dates:
1880-2017, undated; Other: Majority of material found within 1970 - 2004; Other: Date acquired: 2000 May 23
Found in:
Oberlin College Archives
William S. Chambers Papers
Collection
Identifier: RG 30-148
Scope and Contents
The records consist of nine scrapbooks (out of a collection of 47 referred to in one of the last articles in the 1942 scrapbook) containing material about athletics at Oberlin High School, Oberlin College, Syracuse College and schools in Lorain County and around Ohio. They represent the years 1907-42, but lack 1924-38. The contents consist of mostly undated newspaper clippings, programs, tickets, cards (including wedding invitations of former O.H.S. and O.C. athletes and students, sports...
Dates:
1907 - 1942; Majority of material found in 1907-1923; Other: Date acquired: 10/01/1981
Found in:
Oberlin College Archives
Wolfgang and Ursula Stechow Papers
Collection
Identifier: RG 30-238
Scope and Contents
The papers of Wolfgang Stechow and his wife Ursula Hoff Stechow primarily document facets of Wolfgang Stechow’s greatest academic interest—the history of art. His non-textual research and teaching materials, correspondence, and academic papers all serve to enlighten the scholar of Stechow's teaching methods, professional esteem by colleagues, and scholastic topics.
These research and teaching materials, which make up the bulk of the Stechow papers, include photographs, study...
Dates:
1894 - 1998; Majority of material found within 1927 - 1977; Other: Date acquired: 1986 January 21
Found in:
Oberlin College Archives
Woman's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU), Oberlin Chapter Records
Collection
Identifier: RG 31-006-004
Scope and Contents
The records consist of minutes of meetings (14 vols.), treasurer’s books (3 vols.), printed programs, membership lists, newspaper obituaries and other clippings, correspondence, financial records, and some printed matter of state or national origin.
Dates:
1874-1976, undated; Other: Date acquired: 03/10/1975
Found in:
Oberlin College Archives
Women's Progressive Club of Oberlin Records
Collection — 1 folder
Identifier: RG 31-006-013
Scope and Contents
One yearly program for 1912, titled “Calendar of the Women’s Progressive Club,” lists officers, members, meeting places, and topics of discussion.
Dates:
1912-1927
Found in:
Oberlin College Archives
Yeaton Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: RG 30-095
Scope and Contents
The papers consist in large part of notes taken and lectures given by all three Yeatons, but also of correspondence (1902-56), genealogical information, estate papers, family miscellany, photographs (mostly of Ethel M. Kitch), and a few student papers. Five letters from missionary M. Portia Mickey, class of 1912, during the late 1930s and 1940s, are included in Marie Johnson Yeaton’s correspondence.
Dates:
1833 - 1983; Other: Date acquired: 07/11/1976
Found in:
Oberlin College Archives