photographs -- photographic prints
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 266 Collections and/or Records:
Mary Elizabeth Johnston Papers
Collection
Identifier: RG 30-168
Scope and Contents
The papers of Mary Elizabeth Johnston consist largely of scrapbooks assembled between 1910 and 1972 by Johnston as a record of her family life in Oberlin, her teaching career and travels, and activities in retirement.
The collection is arranged into five records series: Series I. Correspondence; II. Diaries and Memoranda Books; III. Biographical Miscellany; IV. Scrapbooks; and V. Photographs. Within series, files are typically arranged alphabetically by topic or type of...
Dates:
1882-1981, undated; Majority of material found in 1910-1972; Other: Date acquired: 1984 November 1
Found in:
Oberlin College Archives
Mary J. Culhane Papers
Collection
Identifier: RG 30-404
Scope and Contents
The Mary J. Culhane Papers are divided into three subgroups: I. Records, II. Photographic Materials, and III. Plaques.
Dates:
1966-1993, undated; Other: Date acquired: 2010 January 1
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
Maurice P. Kessler Collection in Honor of Albert Schweitzer Papers
Collection
Identifier: RG 30-344
Scope and Contents
The Maurice P. Kessler Collection in Honor of Albert Schweitzer papers consist of materials related to the life and professional career of Kessler himself, as well as materials pertaining to the career of Albert Schweitzer. The biographical and correspondence files, which include records of immigration, letters to and from Kessler, as well as programs from several of his performances, shed light on Kessler’s career and his time at Oberlin. The bulk of the collection, however, is...
Dates:
1927 - 1971; Other: Date acquired: 2002 February 7
Found in:
Oberlin College Archives
Max Hubacher Photographs
Collection
Identifier: RG 30-446
Scope and Contents
The Max Hubacher Photographs comprise twenty-four glass plate negatives measuring 4 x 6 inches, and nineteen contact prints from those negatives, taken between June 6 and June 9, 1953 in Oberlin. Max Hubacher was in Oberlin for the 1953 Commencement exercises for his daughter Sylvia’s graduation. Many of the negatives were inscribed with the date that they were taken. The prints have typed or handwritten notations on the backs as to the subjects and dates. It was highly unusual for a...
Dates:
1953; Other: Date acquired: 1990 February 14
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
Nancy Hays Teeters Papers
Collection
Identifier: RG 30-169
Scope and Contents
The papers of Nancy Hays Teeters (1930-), spanning four decades, document the development of Teeters' career as a fiscal economist from professional staffer and research scholar (1957-78) to member of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (1978-84), a Presidential appointment. She concluded her career as IBM's Director of Economics (1984-90) and Vice President (1986-90). Although the papers are largely professional in nature, providing little information about Teeters'...
Dates:
1950 - 1990; Majority of material found within 1960 - 1990; Other: Date acquired: 1984 June 27
Found in:
Oberlin College Archives
Nancy Schrom Dye Presidential Papers
Collection
Identifier: RG 02-013
Scope and Contents
The Nancy S. Dye presidential papers (1948 (1994-2007)–2007) cover the thirteen-year tenure of Oberlin College’s first woman president. Broadly, the official records document administrative actions and decisions made by Dye and her senior staff, with an emphasis on cultivating and developing the college’s relationships locally, regionally, nationally, and internationally. In many ways, this voluminous record (125.68 l.f.) of two subgroups, 32 records series, and 81 subseries captures the...
Dates:
1948-2007; Other: Majority of material found within 1994-2007; Other: Date acquired: 1994 December 12
Found in:
Oberlin College Archives
Nat Brandt Papers
Collection
Identifier: RG 30-367
Scope and Contents
The Nat Brandt Papers primarily document Brandt’s research and writing on three Oberlin related topics: the Oberlin-Wellington Rescue of 1858; the Oberlin missionaries who were killed during the Boxer Rebellion in China in 1900; and, Oberlin College Football (late 1890s) and John Heisman as coach of the team. The titles of Brandt’s books are identified in the series descriptions below. Many of the documents in the collection are photocopies of the original materials that were used by...
Dates:
ca. 1850s-2004; Other: Date acquired: 2004 January 6
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