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A photo of an 1855 class from the Preparatory Department of Oberlin College. The college offered pre-college education in the Preparatory Department in the 19th and early 20th centuries. One of the students in the class (upper right) was Anthony…

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The Oberlin Sanctuary Project provides a forum for research, reflection, and discussion of what it means to be a sanctuary campus or community. The exhibit documents Oberlin's history of providing a safe haven or help for humankind. Topics include…

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An interactive guide to Oberlin College's architecture and monuments from its founding to the present. This site provides historical and current information on
on the college's structures and includes photos, drawings, descriptive information, and…

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A photo of men from the Oberlin College class of 1898 digging up the boulder that now sits on Tappan Square across from the Conservatory.

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The boulder that the Class of 1898 pull out of Plumb Creek, dragged to Tappan Square, and presented as a gift to the college. The plaque reads: GLACIAL BOULDER OF GRANITOID GNEISS FROM EASTERN CANADA EXCAVATED FROM TEN FEET BELOW THE SURFACE AT THE…

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A photo of the boulder that was excavated by the Oberlin College Class of 1898 and placed on Tappan Square, across from the Conservatory. The class presented the boulder as their gift to the college. Since 1962, the 1898 boulder has been one of the…

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One of the many painted versions of the Class of 1898 Boulder taken during the 1967-1968 academic year.

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Photo of 20 of the 37 men indicted for freeing an alleged escaped slave from his captors in Wellington, Ohio in 1858. Pictured from left to right: Jacob R. Shepherd, O.S.B. Wall, poring Wadsworth, David Watson, Wilson Bruce Evans, Eli Boise, Ralph…

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This student projectexplores the different conferences and workshops focused on issues of gender and sexuality that were held at Oberlin during the 1970s and 80s. Drawn from the Dean of Students papers, the documents show changing priorities, methods…

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Frances Walker-Slocum earned a Bachelor of Music at Oberlin Conservatory in 1945 and had a successful career as a pianist whose performances always featured the work of Black composers. She became the first Black woman granted tenure at Oberlin…

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This student projectfocuses on the Oberlin College chapter of the Young Women's Christian Association (YWCA) during the World War II era. During the war, the Oberlin YWCA reprioritized its activities, shifting away from an emphasis on domestic skills…

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Eleanor "Bumpy" Stevenson was first lady of Oberlin College from 19461956. She and her husband, Bill Stevenson, had served I with the Red Cross in Europe and North Africa during World War II. While at Oberlin, Eleanor used her free time to become a…

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This student project explores letters by Evelina Belden Paulson, a 1909 Oberlin College graduate who pursued a career in social work. These letters were written while Paulson was working for the Red Cross in Poland, providing humanitarian relief in…

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Ruth Alexander Nichols was a 1915 graduate of Oberlin who became a leading photographer of children in the first half of the twentieth century. This student project chronicles Nichols’ transformation from a young and enthusiastic amateur into an…

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The Mutual Improvement Club was a social and political association formed by prominent Black women in the town of Oberlin, Ohio. This student projectexplores the Club’s yearbooks from 1913 and 1914 to illuminate the ideas and concerns of African…

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This student projectexplores Mary Church Terrell’s fraught relationship to Oberlin and larger commitment to justice for black women. Terrell, an 1884 graduate of Oberlin, was the founding president of the National Association of Colored Women and…

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This student project focuses on 1909 OC graduate Evelina Belden Paulson's work at Hiram House, a settlement house in Cleveland that served Cleveland's immigrant population.

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This student curatedfocuses on Susan Rowena Bird, an 1890 graduate of Oberlin who became a part of a group of missionaries in Shanxi known as the Oberlin Band. Bird was killed in the Boxer Rebellion in 1900. The project includes letters Bird wrote to…

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This student project focuses on the Oberlin Christian Women's Temperance Union and their vision of an international temperance crusade at the end of the 19th century.

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This student project explores the ideas of female missionaries and includes correspondence by Luella Minor, an 1884 graduate of Oberlin who went on to serve as a missionary in China, and her Chinese student Lan Hua Liu Yui, who came to study at…

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This student curatedexplores the career of Sarah Furnas Wells, an 1865 Oberlin graduate who went on to become a doctor at a time when there were few female physicians. Oberlin awarded her an honorary L. B. degree in 1894.

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This student projectexplores Frances Densmore's correspondence while she was a student at Oberlin Conservatory in the 1880s. Densmore went on to become a leading ethnomusicologist specializing in the music of Native Americans.

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Adelia Field Johnston graduated from Oberlin College in 1856, became the principal of the Women's Department at the college in 1870, and the college's first female professor in 1890. She raised funds for almost every nineteenth century building on…

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Lucy Stone (1818-1893) was a leading abolitionist and women's rights advocate. An outspoken, passionate 1847 graduate of Oberlin College, Stone later became a prominent figure in the fight for woman suffrage, leading groups such as the American Equal…

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This site features projects that began as class assignments in Professor Carol Lasser's American Feminisms class. Each project is a “mini-edition” based on documents in the Oberlin College Archives that illuminate aspects of feminisms. Each project…

Lucy Stanton Day, a free-born African American woman, graduated from the Oberlin College Ladies’ Department in 1850, giving the commencement address “A Plea to the Oppressed.” This student project focuses on her struggle to convince the American…

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A student projectthat includes and explores the correspondence between Mary Burton, teacher and member of temperance and reform societies, and Giles Waldo Shurtleff, Union captain for Ohio companies. The letters follow their courtship and marriage…

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A student-curated project about Emilie Palmer's detailed diaries, which allow a glimpse into life in Oberlin during the Civil War and her own Christian faith. Palmer attended Oberlin from 1859-1861.

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A student project about a nearly half century of correspondence between Henry Woodstock, an Oberlin Theological Seminary graduate and a pastor in New England and Kansas, and his wife, sisters, and daughters. The letters address temperance and…

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A student curated collectionthat explores the correspondence between four Pennsylvania sisters, all of whom attended Oberlin College in the 1850s. The four wrote about daily life at the college.

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A student projectabout the 1850 scandal involving Emily Pillsbury Burke, the principal of the Ladies' Department at Oberlin College. Burke, a widow, was accused of kissing a male student and was dismissed. This project includes several documents…

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A student projectabout the essays of Mary Sheldon, an 1852 graduate of Oberlin College who was an abolitionist and advocate of women's rights. While at Oberlin, Sheldon was a member of the Ladies' Literary Society and the Ladies' Anti-Slavery Society

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A student project focused on the courtship correspondence between James Harris Fairchild, who became the third president of Oberlin, and his future wife, Mary Fletcher Kellogg. The project includes sixteen letters written between 1838 and 1861. The…

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A student project about Irene Ball, who did the Ladies' Course at Oberlin College from 1836 to 1837 and who was active in the abolitionist movement in Illinois. The collection consists for four of Ball's letter to mother, written between 1836 and…

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This digital project explores the contributions of art history professor and curator Ellen Johnson to Oberlin's Department of Art History and its art museum, as well as to the American and European contemporary art world. Johnson received both a BA…

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A brief history and overview of the Oberlin Female Reform Society, which was founded in 1835 and which became one of the largest such societies in the nation. The student digital projectincludes transcriptions of the society's Constitution and…

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This digital exhibitcreated and hosted by the Oberlin College Archives, explores the life and work of John Frederick Oberlin, the French Lutheran Pastor who as the namesake of the town of Oberlin and Oberlin College.

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