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  • Tags: 1890-1909

Edmonia Lewis, Albumen print, c1870, cropped.jpg
The first professional African American sculptor, Edmonia Lewis attended Oberlin College from 1859 through 1862. While her time at Oberlin ended in scandal, she went on to have a successful career as an American expatriate artist living in Rome.

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Antoinette Brown Blackwell.jpg
The first women in the United States to be ordained as a minister by a recognized religious denomination, Antoinette Brown Blackwell was a lifelong crusader for women's rights. A graduate of Oberlin College, she also advocated against slavery and for…

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In 1847, Lucy Stone graduated from Oberlin College, becoming the first women from Massachusetts to earn a bachelor's degree. Stone was a staunch advocate of both abolition and women's rights and she became one of the most important 19th century…

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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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Mary Church Terrell (1863-1954), renowned internationally for her achievements as an educator, writer, lecturer, suffragist, and civil rights leader. This exhibition of materials from the Oberlin College Archives explores the life and work of Mary…

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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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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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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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Student newspaper of Oberlin College, continuously published since 1874. This digital collection ends in 2012. Current issues are also available online.

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