Digital images
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 25 Collections and/or Records:
Oberlin College Library Records, Files of Ray English
Collection
Identifier: RG 16-002
Scope and Contents
The records of the Oberlin College Library, the files of Ray English, Director of Libraries, predominantly cover the years of 1990-2015. They relate to the leadership of Ray English over a span of twenty-five years. Several technological advances and structural changes to both the library and the campus occurred during this period, which are evidenced by the record.This record group details the change to an online catalog (OBIS), the design and building of the Academic Commons at the Mudd...
Dates:
1914 - 2022; Majority of material found in 1990-2014; Other: Date acquired: 10/15/2015
Found in:
Oberlin College Archives
Oberlin Folk Music and the Cat in the Cream Coffeehouse Collection
Collection
Identifier: RG 61
Abstract
The collection in the Archives’ Oberlin Folk Music and The Cat in the Cream Coffeehouse Recordings comprises original reel-to-reel tapes dating from 1955-1977 and duplicate CDs of the Conservatory Library’s Folk Music Archive. Additional materials unique to the Archives’ collection include audio, video and photographic records of Spring Folkfest performances from 1997-2017 (2014-2017 is more complete). While there are numerous Folk Music Club and Spring Folkfest recordings taken at the...
Dates:
1955-2018; Other: Date acquired: 09/09/2022
Found in:
Oberlin College Archives
Oberlin LIASE Collection
Collection
Identifier: RG 60-001
Scope and Contents
The Oberlin LIASE collection documents faculty and student activities funded by a grant from the Luce Initiative on Asian Studies and the Environment from 2016 to 2022. The materials are arranged in three series: Series 1. Program Files, Luce Initiative on Asian Studies and the Environment (LIASE), Exploration and Implementation Grants; Series 2. Non-textual Materials and Posters; and Series 3. Books.
Series 1 includes correspondence with the grant project partners; files...
Dates:
1995-2022; Majority of material found in 2015-2022; Other: Date acquired: 08/17/2022
Found in:
Oberlin College Archives
Oberlin Shansi Memorial Association Records
Collection
Identifier: RG 15-001
Scope and Contents
The records of OSMA date from 1881 to the present and relate to the activities of Oberlinians in Asia during that period.
Earlier records discuss missionary work of the Oberlin Band: evangelism, teaching, medical work, and the operation of "opium refuges" in the Shanxi province of China. The bulk of this collection deals with the OSMA, which was formed as a living memorial to Oberlin missionaries who died in the Boxer Rebellion of 1900.
Administrative and financial...
Dates:
1868-2024, undated; Other: Date acquired: 1967
Found in:
Oberlin College Archives
Photographs: Buildings, Monuments, and Places
Collection
Identifier: RG 32-004
Scope and Contents
Photographic images of buildings, monuments and places on campus, on paper of legal size and smaller, fill this category; it also includes born digital images. Nearly all of the buildings represented are college buildings; the exceptions are a few early Oberlin churches. The monuments represented are college-owned, with some exceptions. Places constitute the Arboretum, a large natural area with a reservoir, and Tappan Square, now devoid of buildings but which once served as the site of...
Dates:
1860s to Present; Other: Date acquired: 1966
Found in:
Oberlin College Archives
Photographs: Graduates and Former Students
Collection
Identifier: RG 32-003-001
Scope and Contents
The photographs of graduates and former students are arranged in two series. A third series holds photographs of Oberlin community members associated in some way with the college.
Loose photographs of graduates and former college students in Series 1, Subseries 1 are arranged chronologically by graduating class, beginning with 1836. Files include photographs taken while students attended Oberlin and after they left. Many of the latter were taken during class reunions. Some...
Dates:
1836 to Present; Other: Date acquired: 1966
Found in:
Oberlin College Archives
Photographs: Hi-O-Hi Yearbook Collection
Collection
Identifier: RG 32-008
Scope and Contents
The Oberlin College yearbook, titled the Hi-O-Hi, is a rich source of photographic documentation from 1889 to 2006, after which it ceased publication. In the final years of the yearbook, publication was erratic. The Hi-O-Hi photograph collection covers the years 1960-61, 1972-77, and the 1980s through 1994. There is less photographic documentation of the College in general for the 1980s though the early 2000s, and this...
Dates:
1960-1994, undated; Other: Date acquired: 01/19/1988
Found in:
Oberlin College Archives
Photographs: Presidents, Faculty, Staff, Trustees, Honorary Degree Recipients, and Others
Collection
Identifier: RG 32-003-002
Scope and Contents
Like the record group for graduate and former students, this group holds portraits dating from the earliest years of photography to the present. However, the earliest images are print copies of daguerreoptypes and other cased images, the originals of which are held in a separate record group (RG 32/3/4). The photographs are arranged into three series: 1. Faculty, Staff, Trustees, and Honorary Degree Recipients; 2. Presidents; and, 3. Other Individuals. Contents of Series 1 and 3 are...
Dates:
1830s to Present; Other: Date acquired: 1966
Found in:
Oberlin College Archives
Photographs: Subjects
Collection
Identifier: RG 32-005
Scope and Contents
This grouping, arranged by subject, holds the largest numbers of photographic prints in the Oberlin College Archives. The bulk of them are 8” x 10” or smaller, and are stored vertically in file cabinet drawers. Older, more fragile prints are stored separately in records cartons and require more careful handling. The subject headings were locally derived and do not adhere to any controlled vocabulary.
The older prints, dating from the 1850s to the later 1910s, were produced by...
Dates:
ca. 1850s-Present; Other: Date acquired: 1966
Found in:
Oberlin College Archives
Robert P. Fountain Papers
Collection
Identifier: RG 30-368
Scope and Contents
The Robert P. Fountain Papers document his career as a singing teacher and director of choral music, and to a lesser degree his early life. The bulk of his papers consist of thirteen scrapbooks, most of which his son, Robert H. Fountain, assembled. According to Bob, “the scrapbooks are full of how my father’s talents, drive, and personality affected those who studied with him, performed under his direction, attended performances, or knew him as a human being.” Included here, too, are two...
Dates:
1900-1996, undated; Other: Date acquired: 2004 April 9
Found in:
Oberlin College Archives