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Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 90 Collections and/or Records:
Curtis Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: RG 30-059
Abstract
The Curtis family papers document Howard Cone Curtis’s position as a physical education instructor at Oberlin College through correspondence received between the years of 1915-19. Mary Long Goldsbury’s time at Oberlin College is chronicled through her 1884 diary. The collection also contains correspondence as well as printed matter documenting missionary work of members of the Curtis family.
Dates:
1842-1919, undated; Other: Date acquired: 10/01/1971
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
Donald M. Love Papers
Collection
Identifier: RG 30-091
Scope and Contents
The personal papers of Donald M. Love are divided into thirteen series: I. Address Books; II. Appointment Books; III. Committee Files; IV. Correspondence; V. Teaching Files; VI. Writings and Talks; VII. Community Service Files; VIII. Tour Guide Files; IX. Student Files; X. Photographs; XI. Miscellaneous Historical Files; Miscellaneous Printed Matter (Late Accretion); and, XIII. Awards and Honors.
Love's papers document his activities as a college administrator, writer, and...
Dates:
1868-1974; Majority of material found in 1912-1974; Other: Date acquired: 06/17/1975
Found in:
Oberlin College Archives
Edward Franklin Bosworth Papers
Collection
Identifier: RG 30-299
Scope and Contents
The papers of Edward Franklin Bosworth, Oberlin College Class of 1916, document primarily Bosworth's professional life as a Congregational Minister, with the bulk of this collection being comprised of sermons and related eulogies, chapel talks, communion services, and prayer meeting outlines. The collection has an inclusive date range of 1895-1971, with the majority of papers (the sermons) created in the 1920s.
Bosworth’s time at Officer training School at Camp Sherman,...
Dates:
1895-ca.1997; Majority of material found in 1912-1955; Other: Date acquired: 1997 December 15
Found in:
Oberlin College Archives
Emil C. and Mary Ann Danenberg Papers
Collection
Identifier: RG 30-393
Scope and Contents
The papers of Emil C. Danenberg (1917-1982) and Mary Ann Danenberg (1927-2008) document the lives and careers of the Danenbergs over an 82 year period. The arrangement of the Danenberg’s papers into two subgroups—the papers of Mary Ann Danenberg and the papers of Emil C. Danenberg—does not diminish the collaborative nature of the couple’s work. Although the bulk of the materials found in the collection relate to Mary Ann’s education and professional life, significant material relating to...
Dates:
1926-2008, undated; Other: Date acquired: 2006 October 2
Found in:
Oberlin College Archives
Eric B. Nye Papers
Collection
Identifier: RG 30-342
Scope and Contents
The papers of Eric B. Nye, Oberlin Class of 1970, document his days as a student at Oberlin College (1966-70), including his summers spent at Cape Cod (1967) and on the Oberlin programs in France (1968) and Vienna (1969). His time at Oberlin College spanned an era of increasing unrest among college students across the country in reaction to the Vietnam War and civil protests at home, and Oberlin experienced its share of this unrest.
The collection consists of a notebook from a...
Dates:
1961-1981, undated; Other: Date acquired: 2001 June 19
Found in:
Oberlin College Archives
Ernest and Mary Fisk Papers
Collection
Identifier: RG 30-225
Scope and Contents
The Ernest and Mary Fisk Papers span the years of Ernest's career as a journalist and in the foreign service. The great bulk of the material is from the Fisks' time in India, Pakistan, and Nepal with the State Department. The very few papers not from this time are mostly not of the Fisks' creation. The collection is mainly personal, but contains much information about their professional duties. There is little material of an expressly professional nature.
The Fisk Papers are...
Dates:
1862 - 1966; Majority of material found in 1937-1966; Other: Date acquired: 1990 January 1
Found in:
Oberlin College Archives
Erwin H. Richards Papers
Collection
Identifier: RG 30-271
Scope and Contents
The Erwin H. Richards papers consist of a scrapbook, correspondence, writings, photographs and photograph albums, glass plate negatives, lantern slides, a map, and printer’s blocks that document the family’s missionary activity in Portuguese East Africa.
The writings constitute a significant portion of the Erwin H. Richards papers. Included are writings and translations by Richards, used as instructional tools during his missionary work in Africa. The writings by others also...
Dates:
1850 - 1994; Majority of material found in 1880-1910; Other: Date acquired: 1993 November 3
Found in:
Oberlin College Archives
Erwin N. Griswold Papers
Collection
Identifier: RG 30-101
Scope and Contents
The papers of Erwin N. Griswold cover the term of Griswold's service on the Oberlin College Board of Trustees from 1936 to 1992. Griswold served on the Board until 1980, and remained an Honorary Trustee until his death in 1994. The more extensive archive relating to Griswold's service as a professor of law and Dean of the Harvard University Law School (1946-67) is held by the Harvard University Law School Library. Records pertaining to Griswold's service (1967-73) as U. S. Solicitor...
Dates:
1917 - 1998; Other: Date acquired: 05/16/1977
Found in:
Oberlin College Archives
Everett D. Hawkins Papers
Collection
Identifier: RG 30-130
Scope and Contents
The papers of Everett Day Hawkins mainly document the two years Hawkins spent in Taigu, China, as a Shansi Representative of Oberlin College (1927-29). Later materials pertain to Hawkins' service in Chungking with the U.S. Office of War Information (1944-46). Virtually no record exists in these papers of Hawkins' teaching career at Mt. Holyoke College and the University of Wisconsin; his government service; or his scholarship in Southeast Asian development economics.
Hawkins'...
Dates:
1900-1972; Majority of material found in 1927-1946; Other: Date acquired: 04/09/1979
Found in:
Oberlin College Archives