College students
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 19 Collections and/or Records:
Oberlin Review Records
Collection
Identifier: RG 19-000-001-001
Scope and Contents
The Oberlin Review Records document daily life on the Oberlin College campus through the College’s student newspaper. It has been divided into two subgroups. The first holds the bound print issues of the Oberlin Review from its founding in 1874 through the present. The second holds records created by the Review’s photographers or photography department from the 1970s through ca....
Dates:
1874-2013, undated
Found in:
Oberlin College Archives
Oberlin Student Cooperative Association (OSCA) Records
Collection
Identifier: RG 19-003-011-001
Scope and Contents
The OSCA Records consist of materials created and used by the Oberlin Student Cooperative Association between 1956 and 2015. Access copies of acidic newspaper clippings were created in 2026. Materials in the OSCA Records relate to the daily activities of OSCA and include correspondence, administrative files, event and programming documents, clippings, and a single photograph. The collection has been divided into six subgroups. Subgroup I. Correspondence includes intra-OSCA...
Dates:
1951-2025, 2026, undated
Found in:
Oberlin College Archives
Poster Collection
Collection
Identifier: RG 46
Scope and Contents
The Poster Collection ranges from 1877 to the present, with the bulk concentrated from the 1970s on. The collection documents college and department-specific events, student activities and activism, and gender identity and sexuality on campus. It also includes some posters from certain personal paper groups. The posters are foldered and housed according to their sizes, and thus some subjects will be held in several different flat files or boxes. The Subject Guide to Posters lists subjects in...
Dates:
1877 - 2024; Majority of material found within 1970 - 2024
Found in:
Oberlin College Archives
Richard D. Brown Papers
Collection
Identifier: RG 30-356
Scope and Contents
The Richard D. Brown papers concern his teaching career and his efforts to initiate change in college policy. The collection includes term papers by students writing about their own family histories as part of the Anonymous Families History Project. In addition, the Brown papers contain drafts of a proposal for a study of policy making at the college. This particular file also includes correspondence between faculty and Brown’s own reflections on policymaking issues. Through the preparations...
Dates:
1966-2002
Found in:
Oberlin College Archives
Samuel J.M. and Louisa Kaiser Marshall Papers
Collection
Identifier: RG 30-340
Scope and Contents
The Samuel J.M. and Louisa Kaiser Marshall papers consist of two small series. Series I includes a Civil War diary of Samuel J.M. Marshall that documents Marshall’s service with the 7th Ohio Volunteer Infantry Band, 1861-62. The typescript version of the diary contains an introduction by Henry Cowles Marshall, and correspondence from him to Julian Fowler, Oberlin College Librarian, concerning family history and Oberlin connections. The series contains the original...
Dates:
1861 - 1933; Majority of material found in 1861-1892; Other: Date acquired: 2001 September 10
Found in:
Oberlin College Archives
Scrapbook of Harry Rosenberg, Class of 1949, 1948
Item — Box 33
Scope and Contents
The scrapbook includes correspondence with Illinois governor Dwight H. Green's office and information about the Mock Republican Convention held on Oberlin's campus.
Dates:
1948
Sexual Information Center Records
Collection
Identifier: RG 19-003-009-001
Scope and Contents
The records of the Sexual Information Center (SIC) at Oberlin College document over four decades of student-led sexual health advocacy, education, and peer support, spanning from 1976 to 2019. Materials in the collection reflect the administrative, educational, and operational aspects of SIC’s work, including its evolution from a peer counseling center to a broader reproductive justice organization. The collection includes foundational documents, meeting minutes, daily office logs, financial...
Dates:
1976-2019, undated
Found in:
Oberlin College Archives
Student Life: LGBTU Collection
Collection
Identifier: RG 19-003-010-001
Scope and Contents
The materials contained in the LGBTU Collection date from 1973 to 2001. They reflect portions of the LGBTU’s operations. Most of the materials are from the late 1980s and 1990s. A majority of the files consist of printed materials, such as meeting minutes, administrative materials, records related to programming, posters, and publications that were collected by the LGBTU's librarian. The posters are primarily undated. Publications include Hotlines, a...
Dates:
1971-2006, undated
Found in:
Oberlin College Archives
YMCA and YWCA Records
Collection
Identifier: RG 29
Scope and Contents
The records of the Young Men's and Young Women's Christian Associations of Oberlin College consist of annual reports, minutes, correspondence, scrapbooks, cloth maps, and printed materials documenting the organizations' governance and programs. The cloth maps (1863-96), which predate the 1881 formation of the YMCA, were given to the YMCA by an unknown donor. The earliest textual records are printed pamphlets (1885). The collection has been divided into the following subgroups: I....
Dates:
1863-1971, undated; Majority of material found in 1894-1964; Other: Acquired 1968 September 4
Found in:
Oberlin College Archives