Scrapbooks
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 90 Collections and/or Records:
Thomas and Katherine Farquhar Papers
Collection
Identifier: RG 30-283
Scope and Contents
The papers of Thomas and Katherine Farquhar document the social lives of two Oberlin College students during and after the first World War. Included in the collection are a journal, which records in detail one particular outing, and a full scrapbook, which gives a broad overview of Katherine’s activities during her entire four-year college career. In addition, a limited number of photocopies of newspaper clippings which contain biographical information are included. Few records exist of...
Dates:
1915-1989, undated; Majority of material found in 1915-1919; Other: Date acquired: 1989 August 21
Found in:
Oberlin College Archives
Tony Musante Papers
Collection
Identifier: RG 30-422
Scope and Contents
The Papers of Tony Musante ‘58 document his career as an actor, director, and writer. Musante’s career included theater, television series, and feature films in the United States and other nations such as Italy. The documentation provides insight into how Tony Musante became an accomplished actor, director, and writer, beginning with his student days at Oberlin College, 1954-58.
Of particular interest are notebooks containing Musante’s comments and observations during the filming...
Dates:
1954-2012, undated; Other: Date acquired: 2012 January 1
Found in:
Oberlin College Archives
Walter King Bailey Papers
Collection
Identifier: RG 30-106
Scope and Contents
The papers of Walter King Bailey document his activities—particularly athletic ones—while a student at Oberlin College and his involvement in development issues during his tenure as a trustee of the College later in his career. His letters include reference to the 1916 controversy involving a Greek fraternity. Several letters also relate conversations with Irvin Houck and address the controversy surrounding the naming of Carr Pool. These letters demonstrate the depth of involvement Bailey...
Dates:
1914 - 1996; Majority of material found in 1914-1919; Other: Date acquired: 06/29/1977
Found in:
Oberlin College Archives
William C. Cochran Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: RG 30-008
Scope and Contents
The papers of the Cochran Family primarily consist of correspondence, family records, photographs, research files, and writings. The corpus of the collection is formed around William C. Cochran (1848-1936), who organized files relating to the Cochran family and who personally collected historical research files used to support his writing. The bulk of the series material is related to William C. Cochran and his immediate family. Included is documentation on the life and time of his...
Dates:
1839-1936; Other: Date acquired: 10/12/1967
Found in:
Oberlin College Archives
William Edwards and Eleanor Bumstead Stevenson Papers
Collection
Identifier: RG 30-219
Scope and Contents
The papers of William Edwards Stevenson (1900-85) and his wife Eleanor Bumstead Stevenson (1902-87) document the joint public service careers of the Stevensons over a period of forty-five years. Correspondence with their families (1917-25) and with each other (1924-25), as well as genealogical records such as diaries, wills, and marriage certificates, bring to light the privileged New England childhoods and family relationships which fostered their social ideals. The arrangement of the...
Dates:
1809 - 1987; Majority of material found in 1917-1925, 1942-85; Other: Date acquired: 1979 October 4
Found in:
Oberlin College Archives
William Frederick Bohn Papers
Collection
Identifier: RG 03-001
Scope and Contents
The papers of William Frederick Bohn (1878-1947) provide dual documentation on the workings of the Office of Assistant to the President and on William Frederick Bohn, the individual. The papers of Assistant to the President William F. Bohn, which span the years 1899-ca. 1958 and cover the presidencies of Henry Churchill King and Ernest Hatch Wilkins, are arranged in six series. The records series approximating the filing systems used by Bohn reflect the numerous functions performed by...
Dates:
1899-ca. 1958, undated; Majority of material found in 1913-1944; Other: Date acquired: 09/06/1967
Found in:
Oberlin College Archives
William Grant Still and Verna Arvey Papers
Collection
Identifier: RG 30-162
Scope and Contents
Material at the Oberlin College Archives (Accession 1983/41)
The material given to the Oberlin College Archives consists of clippings, programs, writings by and about William Grant Still and Verna Arvey, a book of Still’s music, press kits and publicity for the opera “A Bayou Legend,” photographs, a copy of an oral history with William Grant Still for the California Black Oral History Project at California State University, Fullerton in 1967, and...
Dates:
1921 - 1995; Other: Date acquired: 1983 October 28
Found in:
Oberlin College Archives
William K. Breckenridge Papers
Collection
Identifier: RG 30-078
Scope and Contents
Consisting of class record books (1898-1934), scrapbooks (1888-1856) and other miscellaneous items (1888-1979), this collection primarily documents William Breckenridge’s work as an instructor of piano at the Oberlin College Conservatory of Music. His class record books list his students, their weekly appointments for music lessons, and their grades. The scrapbook details his experiences while studying music in Leipzig, Germany (1885-1886), and it includes musical programs and fliers as...
Dates:
1885-1957, undated; Other: Date acquired: 09/16/1971
Found in:
Oberlin College Archives
William S. Chambers Papers
Collection
Identifier: RG 30-148
Scope and Contents
The records consist of nine scrapbooks (out of a collection of 47 referred to in one of the last articles in the 1942 scrapbook) containing material about athletics at Oberlin High School, Oberlin College, Syracuse College and schools in Lorain County and around Ohio. They represent the years 1907-42, but lack 1924-38. The contents consist of mostly undated newspaper clippings, programs, tickets, cards (including wedding invitations of former O.H.S. and O.C. athletes and students, sports...
Dates:
1907 - 1942; Majority of material found in 1907-1923; Other: Date acquired: 10/01/1981
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:...
Dates:
1863-1971, undated; Majority of material found in 1894-1964; Other: Date acquired: 09/04/1968
Found in:
Oberlin College Archives