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Found in 99 Collections and/or Records:
Student Life: Phi Beta Kappa Honor Society, Zeta of Ohio Chapter Records
Collection
Identifier: RG 19-003-002-001
Scope and Contents
The records of the Zeta of Ohio Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa document the multiple administrative functions of the chapter, including electing new members, communicating with the United Chapters, and planning for the annual initiation banquets and Visiting Scholars Program. A small amount of material relates to the history of the United Chapters and its triennial meetings. Records are arranged into thirteen series.
Within series, records are typically arranged either chronologically...
Dates:
1878-2009; Other: Date acquired: 00/00/1967
Found in:
Oberlin College Archives
Student Life: Pi Kappa Lambda Honor Society, Theta Chapter Records
Collection
Identifier: RG 19-003-002-002
Scope and Contents
The records of Pi Kappa Lambda, Theta Chapter, document the membership, programs, and governance of this honorary national musical fraternity from its establishment in 1927. The collection provides documentation concerning the history and operation of the national organization of Pi Kappa Lambda. The collection contains documentation concerning the work of the various presidents since 1961, including elections, correspondence, and honor recipients.
>The Administrative Series...
Dates:
1927-2003, undated; Other: Date acquired: 10/05/1993
Found in:
Oberlin College Archives
Student Life: Religious Organizations Records
Collection
Identifier: RG 19-003-001
Scope and Contents
The earliest records in this group reflect Oberlin’s support of missionary endeavors of Protestant organizations both at home and abroad in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.The organizations affiliated with Christian missionary activity were the Foreign Missionary Volunteers, the Students Missionary Society, the Student Volunteer Band, the Union Missionary Society, the Young Ladies Missionary Society, and the Young People’s Society of Christian Endeavor. Later twentieth and...
Dates:
1852-2012, undated; Other: Date acquired: 01/16/1979
Found in:
Oberlin College Archives
Sydney Nettleton Fisher Papers
Collection
Identifier: RG 30-187
Scope and Contents
The papers of Sydney Nettleton Fisher document the Fisher family and his days as a student at Oberlin College. The collection is rich in documentation about the Fisher family, including an autobiography of Sydney N. Fisher and biographies of Robert Dean Fisher and Fisher's parents, Addison Washburn Fisher and Pearl Nettleton Fisher. The correspondence series contains letters between Sydney Fisher and family, including accounts of his teaching appointment at Robert College in Istanbul,...
Dates:
1914-1986, undated; Other: Date acquired: 06/25/1986
Found in:
Oberlin College Archives
Sylvia H. Williams Papers
Collection
Identifier: RG 30-359
Scope and Contents
The papers of Sylvia H. Williams primarily document her role as a curator at the Brooklyn Museum of Art, 1971-1983, and as Director of the National Museum of African Art at the Smithsonian Institution, 1983-1996. The biographical files, correspondence, clippings, writings, and awards and diplomas provide documentation concerning her education, her interest in art and African Art, her work at the Brooklyn Museum and the Smithsonian Institute, and her accomplishments as a successful...
Dates:
1952-1997, undated; Majority of material found in 1971-1996; Other: Date acquired: 2003 January 3
Found in:
Oberlin College Archives
Sylvia Olden Lee Papers
Collection
Identifier: RG 30-369
Scope and Contents
The Sylvia Olden Lee papers range in date from 1843 to 2004 and provide information about her career, her personal projects, and research interests. While the topics covered by materials in this collection largely relate to music and the musical projects Olden Lee undertook, many other subjects are represented also, such as racial equality and travel. The materials are arranged into seven series: 1. Biographical; 2. Correspondence; 3. Name Files; 4. Teaching and Project Files; 5. Programs...
Dates:
1843-2004, undated; Other: Date acquired: 2004 April 21
Found in:
Oberlin College Archives
Theater and Dance Program Records
Collection
Identifier: RG 09-019
Scope and Contents
The records for the Theater and Dance Program are sparse, dating from 1971 to 2022. They are arranged into the following groupings: Annual Reports (2f); Publicity and Programs; Personnel Files (Restricted); Press-Related Clippings; Correspondence.
Dates:
1971-2022, undated; Other: Date acquired: 2001 April 18
Found in:
Oberlin College Archives
Warren Taylor Papers
Collection
Identifier: RG 30-015
Abstract
The papers of Warren Taylor relate primarily to the professional life of an Oberlin College professor. Their contents reflect Taylor's interest in collecting evidence of his achievements. His friendships with students were important to him and are recorded in correspondence spanning forty years. Lecture notes used in his popular English and American literature courses are not present in the collection, although there is material relating to the academic programs Taylor initiated. There is...
Dates:
1924-1990; Majority of material found in 1925-73; Other: Date acquired: 06/28/1968
Found in:
Oberlin College Archives
Wendell P. Russell Jr. Papers
Collection
Identifier: RG 30-272
Scope and Contents
The Wendell P. Russell Papers cover the period of his undergraduate career at Oberlin College, in which he was a key member of committees and organizations for Black Studies and the reevaluation of education at Oberlin, and as a research assistant for a Black Studies Seminar for program directors funded by the Ford Foundation.
The bulk of the collection, in Series 4, documents the Black Studies Seminar held in Aspen, Colorado July 19-25, 1970. The Seminar was organized by the...
Dates:
1964 - 1971; Other: Date acquired: 1996 May 25
Found in:
Oberlin College Archives
Willard Livingstone Beard Papers
Collection
Identifier: RG 30-076
Scope and Contents
The Willard Livingstone Beard Papers consists primarily of letters (1910-1925) between the Willard and Ellen Beard and their children. Of special interest are the twenty letters written by Willard L. Beard and his daughter, Phebe, from Foochow, China (1921-23), some of which tell of the struggle between factions of the Chinese to gain control of the area. A letter from Myron Gould Beard to “Dearest Sister Dot” (Dorothy), dated June 29, 1920, is an account of his visit to Bahia Blanca,...
Dates:
1904-1925, undated; Other: Date acquired: 06/22/1973
Found in:
Oberlin College Archives