financial records

Scope and Contents Records of the Alumni Association of Oberlin College cover the period from 1839 to the present. They document the formation, organization, programs, and activities of the Alumni Association. Included are constitutions, bylaws, minutes, committee reports, correspondence, planning documents, invitations, photographs, video and audion cassettes, memorabilia such as scrapbooks and class distinctions, and general files. Although the records span the entire history of the Association,...

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The Charles Sutphin Papers is a small collection that primarily reflects Pendleton’s years at Oberlin College, from 1897 to 1903. The materials provide insight into student life at the time, including athletics, exhibitions, concerts, social life, the college’s Mock Convention, commencement, and the inauguration of President Henry Churchill King. The collection holds very little correspondence.

Scope and Contents The records of the Communication Studies Department contain materials from its predecessors, the Communication Department (1967-1972) and the Speech Department (1952-1967), as well as some early records from the Forensic Union, a student organization founded in 1927. Consisting of three accessions, as reported on the title page, the third accession followed the suspension of the Department in academic year 1986. The material transferred is an incomplete record of this once well known...

Scope and Contents The family papers of Dan Beach Bradley consist of letters, letterpress books, diaries, diary transcripts, journals, notebooks, writings, photographs, and a painting. The bulk of the papers document the missionary careers of the Rev. Dan Beach Bradley (1804-73) and his first wife, Emilie Royce Bradley (1811-45) in nineteenth-century Siam (modern Thailand). The collection also includes a small amount of correspondence and writings created by two of their children, Sophia Royce Bradley...

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This collection contains records of the Oberlin College Department of Art. It has been organized into six subgroups: Administrative Files, Degree Programs, Special Programs, Non-Textual Materials, Exhibitions and Publications, and Personnel Files. Each subgroup has been further subdivided into series.

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This collection consists of records related to the Oberlin College Department of Economics. These include financial and department records, student papers, and correspondence along with personnel records, which are restricted.

Scope and Contents Records relating to the department of philosophy contain annual reports, correspondence, agendas and meeting minutes, files of the Oberlin Colloquium in Philosophy, and student-related academic files. Spanning only forty years (1952-1991), the files provide an uneven picture of the internal and external activities of the Oberlin College Department of Philosophy. Organized around two subgroups, the twelve records series are arranged for the most part in hierarchical order—from the most...

Scope and Contents The records of the Directors’ Association of Oberlin College comprise one small box containing two books of minutes, a cash book, loose constitution and by-laws documents and receipts, lists of directors (or matrons), and the College Archivist’s record of his conversation with the donor, a member of the organization. The founding constitution and minute book dates from 1904, while the last entry in the second minute book is dated May 1961. Some of the lists of matrons include the address...

Scope and Contents The papers of Douglas and Shirley R. Johnson document the life and activities of a prominent couple in the public life of Oberlin and Northeast Ohio. The Johnsons are and continue to be deeply involved in local and statewide social concerns, with special emphasis on public right to know and fairness issues. To account for their respective spheres of life, the papers are arranged in two subgroups. Subgroup I consists of files relating to the Johnson’s personal life and work, while...

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The records are arranged into seven series: Administrative Files, Curriculum Files, Historical Files, Financial Records, Programs and Special Events, Subject Files, and Publications.