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RG 9/5/1 - Physics Department
Inventory
An asterisk (*) indicates restricted records.

Subgroup I. General Departmental Records, 1881-1993, 1996-97, n.d.

Series 1. Building and Equipment Files, 1931-1984, n.d.

Box 1

Buildings, 1940-1973, n.d. (7f)
Computer-Data Processing Facility, 1963-1965, n.d.
Equipment, 1941-1972, n.d. (5f)

Box 2

Keys, 1946-1956, n.d.
Memoranda (Building), 1931-1940, n.d.
Office Books, 1931-1946, n.d. (2f)
Planetarium, 1941-1977 (4f)

Box 3

Planetarium, 1961-1984 (4f)
Shop, 1965-1970
Smithsonian Files (Re: Historic Equipment), 1962-1971, n.d.

Series 2. Departmental Meeting Minutes, 1951 (1951-73)-1988, n.d.

Box 1

Meeting Minutes, 1951 (1951-1973) -1988, n.d. (5f)

Series 3. Financial Files, 1912-1979, n.d.

Box 1

Budget and Salaries, 1936-1972, n.d. (5f)
Expenditures, 1912-1928
Funds
AEC-Oberlin, 1962-1963
Heckert Fund, 1961-64 - see Weinstock Papers (30/336)
Carl Howe Physics Fund, 1965-1966
Miscellaneous, 1958-1965

Box 2
Grants

Atomic Energy Commission, 1962-1963, n.d.
COSIP, 1966-1967, 1970-1972 (3f)
Danforth Foundation, 1952-1972, n.d.
Ford Foundation, 1962-1966
General Electric Foundation, 1962-1963
Miscellaneous, 1960-1972
National Science Foundation, 1961-1979, n.d. (3f)

Box 3
Grants (cont.)

National Science Foundation, 1962-1974 (5f)
Research Corporation, 1952, 1965-1971, n.d. (3f)

Box 4
Grants (cont.)

Research Support, 1967-1968
Shell Assist, 1963-1971
Sloan Foundation, 1965-1972, n.d. (2f)

Series 4. Instructional Files, 1942-47, 1954-83, 1988, n.d.

Box 1

Advanced Placement Students, 1965-1969, n.d.
Curriculum, 1954-1983, n.d. (4f)
Departmental Reviews, 1970-1971, 1979-1980, 1988
First Course in Physics 1906 (Robert Millikan and Alice M. Knapp)

Box 2

Grade Books, 1942-1947 (8f) (Denny, Fitch, Nuckolls, Hungate,
P.K. Taylor, Schoepfle, Park)
RESTRICTED

Box 3

Honors, 1960-1971, n.d. (4f)
Lecture Demonstration Catalog, n.d.
Physics-Chemistry Proposal, [1964]
Staff Size (course assignments), 1946, 1956-1970, n.d. (2f)
Syllabi and Exams, 1958-1962
Three-Course/Three-Quarter Plan, 1959, n.d.
Three-Two Program, 1962-1974, n.d.

Box 4

Slides (Lantern, 2X2): used for instructional purposes, 1920s-40s, 1970s

Series 5. General Files, 1881-1993, n.d.

Box 1

Alumni Newsletters, 1966-1968
Automatic Frequency Control, 1934-1937 (2f)

Box 2

Employment Opportunities, 1941-1947 (2f)
Graduate Opportunities, 1930-1931
History of Physics at Oberlin, 1914-1964, n.d.
Miscellany, 1889-1993, n.d. (2f)
Nuclear Reactions Research, 1965
Oberlin Graduates in Science, 1957
Personnel, 1943-1972, n.d. (5f)
Personnel, 1950-1984, n.d. RESTRICTED
Personnel - Teachers of Physics (1836-1940s), index cards, c. 1940s

Box 3

Physics Experiment Ledger, c. 1900

Box 4

Physics Library, books and periodicals (Heckert Fund), 1961-64 - see Weinstock Papers (30/336)
Physics Majors, 1980, n.d. (2f)
Program Review, 1996-97
Report on the Physics Department, 1961
Reports to President, 1930-1941, n.d.
Wright Brothers, 1948-1949
Writings by Faculty, 1881, 1929-1986, n.d. (5f)
[See also Subgroup III, Series 2, Subseries 4]

Series 6. Miscellaneous Correspondence, 1921-1978, 1987, n.d.

Box 1

Correspondence, 1921-1978, 1987, n.d. (10f)

Series 7. Miscellaneous Non-Textual Files, n.d.

Box 1

5x7 Glass Plate Negatives (Re: Astronomy), n.d. (11 items)

Box 2

Miscellaneous Glass Plates and Negatives, n.d. (39 items)

Subgroup II. Activities and Organizations, 1909-1922, 1956-1977, 2001-02

Box 1

Activities and Organizations
Minutes of Physical Science Club, 1909-1922 (1 vol.)
Physics Club/Physics Majors, 1965-1977
Speakers Program, 2001-02
Visiting Scientists Program, 1956-1971 (4f)

Subgroup III. Faculty Papers, 1871-1964, n.d.

Series 1. Elisha Gray, 1871-1946, n.d.

Box 1

Correspondence, 1875-1887 (Mostly letters received by Elisha Gray):
Ballantine, William G., 1892-93 (2 letters)
Barber, J. A., 1878 (2 letters)
Bell, Alexander Graham, 1877, n.d. (1 letter, 1 telegram, 1 letter from Gray to Bell)
Browne, of Holmes and Browne Attorneys, 1880 (1 letter)
Calland, W. C., 1879 (1 letter)
Churchill, Charles C., 1874-1888 (29 letters)
Churchill, Fred A., 1878-79, n.d. (3 letters)
Cummins, Henry, 1881 (3 letters)
Demuth, J. A.(?), 1892 (First page of letter) (No signature. Demuth was living at 40 Elm Street, Oberlin, Ohio in 1891 and 1893)
Elliot, John M., 1879 (1 letter)
Fairchild, James H., OC President, 1879-80, 1887 (4 letters)
Hall, Stovis, OC Trustee 1881 (1 letter)
Hardy, A. S., 1898 (1 letter)
Hayes, A. L., 1875-76, 1880 (5 letters from Gray to Hayes)
Kimball Jr., George P., 1887 (1 letter)
King, Henry C., 1887 (1 letter)
Kinney, George, 1873-74 (2 letters)
Carter and Huckins Hardware Dealers, 1892 (1 letter)
Marsh, J. B. T., OC Secretary and Treasurer, 1877-80 (7 letters)
Michener, Inez, 1891-92 (3 letters)
Peyton, William J., 1887 (1 letter)
Reed, H., 1881 (1 letter)
Second Congregational Church, 1900 (1 printed invitation, 1 letter of invitation)
Shurtleff, Giles Waldo, 1873, 1883, 1887, 1900 (3 letters, 1 typed letter from faculty concerning Alumni Annual Convention, 1 letter to J. B. T. Marsh from Shurtleff
Starr, Merritt, Law Offices of Starr and Ehrlich, 1885 (1 letter, 1 typed invitation to Alumni Annual Convention signed by Gray and Merritt)
Wright, George Frederick, 1882, 1886-89, 1898 (5 letters)
Willard, Norman P., 1887 (1 letter)
2 letters concerning donation of correspondence listed above, 1968
Postcards, c.1875-1900, 1912 [2001/006]

Box 2
            Miscellaneous Documents, 1874-1886
            Printed Matter about Gray and Alexander Graham Bell, 1871-1946  (2f)
            Exhibit Material, n.d.

Box 3
            U.S. Supreme Court, the Telephone Appeals Proceedings, October 1886
                        (2 vol.)  [2002/011]

Series 2. Carl Ellis Howe, 1925-1964, n.d.

Subseries 1. Research Files, 1925-33, 1948, n.d.

Box 1

Research Correspondence, 1929-1931
Research Notes
Sunset Fading, 1925
Dielectrical Absorption, 1930
Low Pass Filters, n.d.
Null-Network Analysis, n.d.
Naval Research Laboratory, 1931-1933 (2f)
X-Ray Experiments, 1931, n.d. (7f)
X-Ray Bibliography, n.d.
X-Ray Apparatus at Oberlin College, 1948
Miscellaneous Notes, n.d.
Non-Textual Items
Machinery Light Meters, and Negatives (3), n.d.

Subseries 2. Laboratory Notebooks, 1929-39, 1950-64

Box 2

Notebooks, 1929-1939

Box 3

Notebooks, 1950-1964

Subseries 3. Student Papers, 1926-60

Box 4

Student Papers, 1926-1960
Subseries 4. Printed Material, 1925-63
[See also Subgroup I, Series 5]

Box 5

Writings by Howe, 1929-55 (11f)
Writings by Others, 1925-1963 (3f)

Series 3. Lloyd William Taylor, 1924-c. 1940s, n.d.

Subseries 1. Memoranda, 1925-48

Box 1

General Departmental, 1925-1948 (2f)
President E.H. Wilkins, 1925-1940
Honors Program, 1929-1937
Personnel, 1926-1948 (2f)
Students, 1926-1944
Miscellaneous, 1926-1947

Subseries 2. Class Records, 1924-48

Box 2

Grade Books, 1924-1948 (5f) RESTRICTED

Subseries 3. Demonstration Outlines, 1939

Box 3

Demonstration Outlines, 1939 (9f)

Subseries 4. Writings, 1934-47, n.d.

Box 4

Natural Philosophy: A Textbook of Physics, n.d.
Other Writings, 1934-1947

Subseries 5. Oberlin Physics Majors, 1924-26, c.1940s

Box 5

1936 Alumni Catalog (annotated catalog) c. 1942
Photograph Requests, 1942 (2f)
Physics Students War Service, 1945-1947 (3f)
Physics Students Address Cards, c. 1940s
Photographs of Physics Majors, 1924, 1926

Series 4. Forest G. Tucker, 1931-1958, n.d.

Box 1

Correspondence
General Correspondence, 1931-1952
American Association of Physics Teachers, 1938-1939
Dean Blair Stewart, 1950-1958, n.d. (2f)
Deanship, 1948-1949

 
 
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