Printed ephemera -- Ephemera
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 131 Collections and/or Records:
Daniel A. Harris Papers
Collection
Identifier: RG 30-166
Scope and Contents
The Daniel A. Harris Papers comprise a very small collection of printed matter that advertised and reviewed productions in which Harris performed, and those of singers from the Oberlin Conservatory such as his student Jane Marsh. The collection includes posters for operas, program notes, newspaper clippings and show reviews, lyrics from Harris’ productions, and alumni and miscellaneous magazines. The papers shed light on trends in music education and performance, and the global expanse...
Dates:
1941-1969, undated; Other: Date acquired: 1988
Found in:
Oberlin College Archives
David A. Egloff Papers
Collection
Identifier: RG 30-316
Scope and Contents
The papers of David A. Egloff primarily document his interest in arboretums and the landscaping and appearance of the college and the town of Oberlin, Ohio. The collection contains files relating to Egloff’s service on the Ad Hoc Campus Arboretum Committee, as well as collected materials relating to arboretums (Ohio and other states).
The writings contained within this collection (by Egloff or other authors) concern a variety of subjects, including arboretums, landscaping at...
Dates:
1892-2002, undated; Majority of material found in 1947-1999; Other: Date acquired: 1999 May 10
Found in:
Oberlin College Archives
David S. Boe Papers
Collection
Identifier: RG 30-352
Scope and Contents
Consisting of three artificially constructed record series, the individual documents of varying value were collected by Professor of Organ David Boe over the course of the 1990s. Boe is less the creator of this history than Oberlin College’s point person to implement the proceeds of the K. Africa estate to install a new organ in Finney Chapel. The dedication of the Kay Africa Memorial Organ took place September 28-30, 2001. Boe’s role is also documented in the records of the Conservatory of...
Dates:
1907-2002, undated; Majority of material found in 1991-2000; Other: Date acquired: 2002 August 13
Found in:
Oberlin College Archives
Delavan Levant Leonard Papers
Collection
Identifier: RG 30-223
Scope and Contents
The papers of Delavan Levant Leonard provide an outline of the life of a college and seminary trained minister working in the Midwest as a struggling young minister in the 1870s, and in the developing American West during the 1880s. Leonard's work in the West was conducted under the auspices of the American Home Missionary Society, for whom he served as superintendent of Home Missions for Utah, Idaho, Montana, and western Wyoming. Based in Utah, Leonard observed the Mormon community and...
Dates:
1834-1917, undated; Other: Date acquired: 1975 September 5
Found in:
Oberlin College Archives
Department of German and Russian Records
Collection
Identifier: RG 09-013
Scope and Contents
This collection primarily consists of institutional files related to Oberlin College's German and Russian language departments from 1913 through 1992. The records include information related to writers in residence, summer sessions, and sessions abroad. The German and Russian Department Records have been arranged in three series: Series I. Departmental Administrative Files, Series II. German Language Instructional Files, and Series III. Russian Language Instructional Files.
Dates:
1913-1992, undated; Other: Date acquired: 05/14/1976
Found in:
Oberlin College Archives
Donald Storrs King Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: RG 30-339
Scope and Contents
The papers of Donald Storrs King and associated family members primarily concerns the life and medical career of Donald S. King. It also includes small amounts of material on Edgar Weld King, Donald’s brother; Ruth Coates Roush, the niece of Julia Coates King and former Oberlin President Henry Churchill King; Charles Barker King, grandson of H.C. King and son of Harold Lee and Hazel Barker King of Oberlin; and Violet Petty, a housekeeper for many years for the Henry Churchill King...
Dates:
1889 - 1964; Majority of material found in 1918-1955
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
Dutton Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: RG 30-209
Scope and Contents
The Dutton Family papers document the lives of three generations of the family. The papers span the years Helen Axford Wiley (Dutton) and Philip Drew Dutton studied at Oberlin (ca. 1910-17), their years as missionaries in China and the Philippines (1919-52), and the military service of their son Colonel Thomas Chester Dutton (retired 1970). A substantial portion of this documentation is personal correspondence; however, the papers also include unpublished manuscripts, reports, diaries...
Dates:
1911-1984, undated; Other: Date acquired: 1989 December 16
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
Edith E. Husted Papers
Collection
Identifier: RG 30-434
Scope and Contents
The Edith E. Husted Papers is a small collection arranged into four series: Series 1. Biographical; Series 2. Letters; Series 3. Reports; and Series 4. Printed Matter. The biographical series represents the bulk of the collection owing largely to a compilation by Husted’s niece, Jeanne Wandersleben, of transcribed letters by Husted and biographical information gleaned from family members and the author’s own recollections. This compilation covers Husted’s entire life.
The letters...
Dates:
1915-2012, undated; Other: Date acquired: 1983 May 21
Found in:
Oberlin College Archives