oral histories (document genres)
Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Found in 23 Collections and/or Records:
Geoffrey T. Blodgett Papers
Collection
Identifier: RG 30-263
Scope and Contents
Geoffrey T. Blodgett’s career as a professor and scholar of American history at Oberlin College is well documented in these papers, from his appointment at Oberlin in 1960 to his retirement in 2000 and death in 2001. A small amount of material dates from prior to his faculty appointment. There is very little of a personal nature in the papers, but his correspondence with respected and valued colleagues, as well as many former students, reveal warm relationships with many of them and...
Dates:
1683-ca. 2011; Majority of material found in 1960-2000; Other: Date acquired: 1995
Found in:
Oberlin College Archives
Gladys Irene Champney Papers
Collection
Identifier: RG 30-247
Scope and Contents
The papers of Gladys Irene Champney document Champney's career as an artist and teacher, as well as her dedication to keeping journals and her relationship with her family, especially her sister, Sylvia Johnson. This collection sheds unscientific light of the process of aging and of the problems of aged people (i.e., how does one use successfully one's time following retirement, especially if you are unmarried and without children). The Correspondence Series contains letters written...
Dates:
1972-1995, undated; Other: Date acquired: 1994 August 8
Found in:
Oberlin College Archives
Herbert Shore Collection in Honor of Eduardo C. Mondlane
Collection
Identifier: RG 30-307
Scope and Contents
The Herbert Shore Collection in Honor of Eduardo Mondlane is comprised of two subgroups. Subgroup I is Historical Files Relating to Herbert Shore’s Interests in the Arts and Culture. The bulk of this subgroup consists of files relating to the Council on The Arts, Culture, and Technology (TACT) of which Shore was the director from 1974 to 1988. Additional material in this subgroup concerns the performing arts, and includes playscripts, photographs, and audio and video...
Dates:
1933-2013, undated; Majority of material found in 1950s-1997; Other: Date acquired: 1998 October 30
Found in:
Oberlin College Archives
Louis D. Hartson Papers
Collection — 4 boxes
Identifier: RG 30-012
Scope and Contents
The papers of Louis D. Hartson consist of correspondence between Hartson and colleagues (i.e. Lawrence Cole, Raymond Stetson, Eileen Ort Rees, and Ruth Graff), memoirs and reminiscences, talks and writings, lecture notes, biographical information (including an oral history interview), and files pertaining to Raymond H. Stetson. The collection primarily documents the professional career of Hartson. The collection consists of seven records series.
Dates:
1904-1978; Other: Date acquired: 05/10/1968
Found in:
Oberlin College Archives
Marlene Deahl Merrill Papers
Collection
Identifier: RG 30-250
Scope and Contents
The Marlene Deahl Merrill Papers reflect her professional activity from 1978 to 2017 as an independent researcher, documentary editor, author, speaker and consultant, Research Associate for the Oberlin College Library, and Affilate Scholar for Oberlin College for over fifteen years. Her area of expertise is 19th century American history, particularly that of Oberlin as situated in the larger national context on the issues of education and rights of Black people...
Dates:
1819 - 2017; Other: Date acquired: 1995 October
Found in:
Oberlin College Archives
Michael Meltsner Papers
Collection
Identifier: RG 30-428
Scope and Contents
The collection contains the papers of Michael Meltsner and covers his career as an author, a civil rights lawyer, and law school professor. It is organized into eleven records series.
Dates:
1949-2023, undated; Other: Majority of material found in 1961-2023, undated; Other: Date acquired: 2014 May 29
Found in:
Oberlin College Archives
Miscellaneous Clubs and Associations Records
Collection
Identifier: RG 31-002
Abstract
This record group holds small amounts of material for fourteen clubs and associations in Lorain County in Series 1, and the larger Series 2 on the Neighborhood House Association of Lorain County. The latter includes oral history interviews on cassette tapes and select transcriptions on the history of the Neighborhood House Association.
Dates:
1886-2008
Found in:
Oberlin College Archives
Oberlin College Archives Records
Collection
Identifier: RG 41
Scope and Contents
The voluminous files document the full range of archival functions carried out by the staff operating under William E. Bigglestone, Roland M. Baumann, and Kenneth M. Grossi, respectively, over more than five decades.
In particular the records handsomely document the acquisition of collections, the nature and level of reference activity, the role played by the unit on the instructional front, and the unit’s ongoing struggle for institutional support to keep pace with the growing...
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1959 - 2024
Found in:
Oberlin College Archives
Robert Merrill Bartlett Papers
Collection
Identifier: RG 30-237
Scope and Contents
The papers of Robert Merrill Bartlett document Bartlett's career as a teacher, writer, and historian. The collection consists of a small amount of biographical material (1 folder of clippings and family history) and .05 lin. ft. of correspondence. The correspondence includes letters written from China (1925-27). In addition to the correspondence, the collection contains clippings, writings, an oral history, and photographs concerning Bartlett's experiences in China and Chinese History in...
Dates:
1923-1993, undated; Other: Date acquired: 1986 September 22
Found in:
Oberlin College Archives
Sound Recordings: Cassette Tapes
Collection
Identifier: RG 37-003
Scope and Contents
The cassette tape recordings consist of approximately 550 separate recordings, primarily of campus events and productions. The earliest recordings on cassette tape in this collection are user copies from phonograph records and reel-to-reel tapes. Starting in 1980 the College consistently recorded campus events on cassette tape up until the dominance of digital media in the mid-2000s. The collection does not include any recordings from 2007 or 2009. Only three recordings represent 2013,...
Dates:
1950-2013, undated; Majority of material found in 1980-2000; Other: Date acquired: 06/29/1984
Found in:
Oberlin College Archives