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Abolitionism
Academic Advising
Academic Commons
Academic Dress (worn by faculty and students)
Academic Programs (new), 1990s
The Access Program (Lorain County)
Act Up
Activism (3 f.)
Admissions
Affiliate Scholars
Affirmative Action
Africa – materials in O.C. Archives
African Week
Afrikan Heritage House
Aids
Aids Memorial Quilt (in Oberlin)
Aims of Oberlin College
Airport (Lorain County)
Allen Memorial Hospital (2f) (See also Oberlin Medical Center)
Aluminum
Aluminum Pyramid Cap (Washington, D.C.)
Aluminum Severance Hall Renovation 2000
Alumni – Distinguished (4f)
Alumni Family Week
American Association of University Professors
American Board for Commissioners of Foreign Missions
*American Missionary Association Manuscripts – information re microfilm & catalog to it (4f)
*American Missionary Association: Oberlin and the American Missionary Association by Rev. M.E. Strieby
American Missionary Association: Teachers from Ohio, 1861-76
Amistad
Amnesty International
Anthrax
Anti-Draft, 1980-
Antioch Missionary Baptist Church, Ripley, Mississippi (1964 Rebuilding Project)
Anti-Saloon League
Anti-Slavery Society Convention, 1840
Anti-War, 1970-
Apollo Theatre (See RGO, College General, Dedications, 2009)
Arboretum (Arb, Ladies Grove)
Architecture of Oberlin (4f)
Art Censorship Day
Artist Recitals
Artists – Ohio
Artists and Photographers in Oberlin City Directories, 1859-95
Arts and Letters – School operated by Peter Way, ca. 1977-78
*Asia House
Asian American Activism at Oberlin
Asian American Alliance (AAA)
Asian American Alumni
Asian American Students
Asian American Studies Conference, 10/12-13/01
Asian Pacific American Students Conference, 1994, 2002-
Assertive Management Workshop, 11/9/79
Association for Black Concerns, 1998-
Athletes – 1970-present
Attacks on Girls, 1969-
Automobiles (See Oberlin College Car Policy ; Student Motor Vehicles (On Campus) ; Parking (Campus))
Avery, Charles

BA after MA degree
Bands – History of
Bandstand
Barber Shop Segregation Controversy
Bells: Oberlin College and City of Oberlin
Benzonia – Manistee
Berea College
Berea College Archives
Bi-Centennial (2f)
Bicycles [in Oberlin]
Big Parade
Bill Long Foundation
Bill Long Nature Preserve
Biographical Sketches [these items catalogued]
“Bird’s Eye View of Town of Oberlin” by A. Ruger
Black College Students before the Civil War
Black Cultural Center
Black Education (2f)
Black Education: Conference: The Education of Black Americans and the Quest for Equality October 7-9, 1983
Black Graduates of Middlebury
Black Grads of Oberlin
Black History
Black History Month (February)
Black Organizations – Clippings
Black Organizations at Oberlin College
Black Power, Speakers of
Black River Theater Company
Black River Watershed
Black Students, 1835-62 (list from the Cowles papers)
Black Writers
Blackboard Course Info
Blood Bank Association
Bon Appetit Dining Services (See Dining Services, Bon Appetit, 2001)
Bookstores (See also Co-Op Bookstore)
Boxer Rebellion
The Bridge
Brown Bag Luncheons, 1969-
Brown, John (2f)
Brown, Sherrod (Oberlin’s Congressman)
Brownhelm
Brubeck, Dave
Budget Crisis, 2002-
Buildings – Miscellaneous
Buildings – Renovations
Burglaries and Fires
Burrell-King House
Burton, Theodore E. [catalogued]
Business History of Oberlin (See also Oberlin Businesses)

Cable Television
Camden Bog
Campus Assaults & Theft
Campus Maps, 1983-1995
Campus Master Plan
Campus Protest – miscellaneous
Campus Religious Life
Campus Unrest (2f)
Campus Violence
Can Consortium (Exco)
CARAW (Oberlin Coalition Against Racism and War)
The Catalyst (See also Sustainable Community Associates Ltd.)
Cemetery – first Oberlin cemetery
Cemetery – Westwood (3f)
Censorship
Chadwick, Cassie
Chance Creek
Chaplains (Office of)
Chapman, John (Johnny Appleseed)
Chess: United States Chess Championship, June 6-27, 1975
China Missionary Sources
Chinese Bell
Chinese Temple (The Golden Pavilion of Jehol)
Choral Spectrum (Oberlin Community Chamber Singers)
Christensen Report, 1928
Chronologies and the like
Churchill’s Drawings
Civil War
Clark, Lewis G.
Clark Farm
Class Gift of 1995
Cleveland’s History
Cleveland Orchestra
Clinton Climate Project 2009-2010
Clock (Oberlin Savings Bank)
Club Sports
Coeducation at Oberlin (2f)
Coeducation (150th) Sesquicentennial Anniversary, 1987
Coeducation elsewhere
Coffee Houses
Coleman, Caroline
College Attorney
College Park Allotment
College Pranks
College Recognition – Years of Service
College Seal (See Seal)
Commencement
Commencement College, 1959-60
Common Cause
Community Action
Community Foundation of Greater Lorain County
Company C and Company K
Composers at Oberlin
Conferences & Symposiums
Conservatory
Consumers League of Ohio
Contemporary Music Ensemble (CME)
Co-op Bookstore (See also Bookstores)
Cooperatives
Copeland, Aaron
Copeland, James H. (photographer)
Copyright
Cranch, Christopher Pearse
Curriculum (2f)

Dance Diaspora
Dance, History of
Danenberg, Emil C., 1975- (See also Danenberg file [RG 28] & papers [RG 2/11])
Davis Chair – Religion Department
Degrees
Degrees – Doctor’s Degrees (Medical & Ph.D.)
Degrees – Three year Program, Oberlin College
Democrats
Dentistry and Medicine in Oberlin (2f)
Dictionary of American Biography – Oberlin entries
Dictionary of American Hymnology (See Hymnology, American Dictionary of)
“Dig in at Oberlin”
Dining and Diet
Dining Services (Bon Appetit) 2001
Diplomas
Disability, History of
Disabled Students
Distinguished Alumni Award
Distinguished Community Service Award
Diversity
Dober Study (See Campus Master Plan)
Dormitories, 1969-70 (2f)
Dormitories – Men and Women (2f)
Dormitory Expansion, 2003-05
Dormitory – New Construction (2009 - )
Doshisha University (Japan)
Double Degree Program
Drag Ball
D.R.E.A.M. Act
Drugs
Drugs Conference, February 17-19, 1967
DuBois, W.E.B.

East Asian Studies
East College Street development (See Sustainable Community Associates)
Eating Habits
Election 2004 (presidential)
Elyria, Ohio, History of
Employee Assistance Program
Enchiridion (Plum Creek Review)
Endowed Chairs/Professorships
Endowments – General
Environment: Campus Concerns (2 f.)
Environmental History Highlights, 1974-
Environmental Studies Center
Equestrian Team – O.C.
Estey Organ
Experimental College

Faculty
Faculty Lists
Faculty Wives (Newcomers’ Club, etc.)
Fair Housing Ordinance
Fairchild Chapel
Faith Cabin Library
Famous Oberlin Grads – Distinguished List
Famous Oberlinians/Lorain Countyans – U.S. Congress
Fantasticheria
Far Eastern Conference, January 30-31, 1941
Farrand, Beatrix (Landscape Architect)
FAVA (Firelands Assoc. for the Visual Arts) (See also New Union Center for the Arts)
“Fearless” Campaign
fearlessnessandloathing.com
Federal Aviation Agency
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Fellowship and Grant Announcements
Fellowship: Woodrow Wilson
Female-Male Relationships
Financial Aid/Student Loans
Finney Compact
Finney Lecture Series
Fires
First Year Seminar Program
Fisk Jubilee Singers
Fletcher, Nathan T.
Food Services
Football – Ohio State vs. Oberlin, 1921
Foreign Students
Forum Board
Founders of Oberlin
Fraternities
Freedom of Speech Issues
“Freedom to Marry”
Fulbright Grant (See also “Fellows”)
“Fussers”

Gamelan
Gasholder House
Gay Liberation, 1970s-80s (See also Lesbian/Gay)
Genealogy
Glen Gray Scholars
“Glory”
Goodrich Room (4th Floor Mudd Center) Lois and Robert J. Goodrich ‘16
Governance Commission (“Gov – Com”)
Government of the College
Grades and Examinations
Graham, Sylvester
The Grape (student newspaper)
Great Depression in Lorain County
Great Lakes Colleges Association (3f)
Green Acres Orphanage (See Lorain County Children’s House)

Hall, Charles Martin
Hall Park, 1966-67
Harmon Field
Hazing
Hebrew House
Heisman Club Hall of Fame Inductees
Here Here Gallery
Heritage Days/Juneteenth – Oberlin
Hewlett Committee
Higher Education & Finances: 08 - 09
Hi-O-Hi
Hip Hop
Hiroshima/Nagasaki, A Bomb Exhibition (See also Nancy Dye Papers 2/13)
Hispanic Community – Lorain Co.
Hispanic/Latinos at Oberlin College
Historic Preservation in Oberlin
Honor System
Honorary Degrees (2f)
Honorary Degrees, 1968
Honors
Hotlines (newsletter of Gay/Lesbian Information Center, Lorain)
Housing Developments
Howard, Robert West
Hughes, Langston
Human Development
Hymn Festival (OC – Finney Chapel), 2002-
Hymnology, American Dictionary of

Illumination Night
Intergenerational House
Inter-Museum Conservation Association
Iraq War, 2003-

Japan-American Student Conference, Oberlin College, August 2002
Japanese-Americans
Jazz at Oberlin
Jews/Jewish Issues
Johnson House Developments, 2003-04
Jones, George T., Farm
Juneteenth (See Heritage Days)
Justice Department Probe

Kade, Max
Karamu House (See also the student file of Rowena W. Jelliffe [RG 28])
Kendal Retirement Community
King, Jr., Martin Luther
King-Crane Commission – references to Labor [Folder catalogued]
Korean Students Association (See Oberlin Korean Student's Association [RG 19/3/10])

Labor
Ladies’ Literary Society
Lake Erie
Lane Theological Seminary
Latino Education
Leadership – Lorain County
Learning and Labor
“Learning & Piety in Ohio Colleges, 1865-1930,” sermon by S.B. Barnes
Learning in Retirement Institute
Learning While Earning
Legionnaires’ Disease (Scare, at Oberlin)
Lesbian/Gay, 1992- (2f) (See also Gay Liberation, 1992-98)
“Less Frills in Everything” – World War II Exhibit, 1995 (See World War II)
Log of Research Trips
Lorain 2020
Lorain County (general)
Lorain County Children’s Home (Green Acres)
Lorain County Fair
Lorain County Habitat for Humanity, Inc.
Lorain County Historical Society
Lorain County Histories (2f)
Lorain County – Living & Learning Institute
Lorain County Medical Society
Lorain County Metro Parks (See also Oberlin City Swimming Pool/Recreation Center)
Lorain County Metro Parks Splashzone (See Oberlin City Swimming Pool/Recreation Center)
Lorain County Microfilm Records
Lorain County Regional Planning Commission
Lorain County Settlement Houses
Lorain County Transit (LCT) System
Lorain Tornado, Lorain, Ohio, June 28, 1924
Lovejoy, Elijah P.

MAD Factory (Music, Art, Drama)
Majors (Senior Majors: Oberlin)
Manual Labor
Master of Arts in Teaching
Meeting House, The (by Robert S. Fletcher)
Memorials, Faculty and Staff
Men
Million Man March
Minority Student Interest
Minority Students, 1970s-90s
Minority Undergraduate Awards – McNair, Mellon & Science Scholars
Miscellaneous
Miscellaneous Clippings (2f)
Missionary Interests
Mock Conventions
Monuments and Memorials (See College General [RG 0], Series 30.)
Mount Oberlin
Multicultural Affairs
Mural – Cox Administration
Murals in Oberlin Community
Murder
Musical Union

NAACP – Oberlin Branch
Named Professorships [This folder is cataloged]
National Historic Landmark – Wilson Bruce Evans House, April 1998
National Register of Historic Places
Native Americans (Indians)
Navy V-12 Unit (2f)
Nepotism
New Oberlin
New Russia Township (See Russia Township)
New Union Center for the Arts (See also FAVA)
Nichols, Margaretta Mclelland (See also Wheeler, Robert: Professorship)
Niagara Movement
Nord Foundation

Oberlin Action Against Prisons
OAM – Oberlin Alumni Magazine
O.A.S.I.S. (Oberlin’s Animal Shelter)
Oberlin African-American Genealogy and History Group
Oberlin Agricultural School
Oberlin Artists: Photographers/Printers
Oberlin – Bicentennial of American Revolution
Oberlin Black Alliance for Progress (OBAP)
Oberlin – Booklets and articles about (3f)
Oberlin Branches: Sheffield, Austinburg
Oberlin Businesses (See also Business History of Oberlin)
Oberlin Campus – Reports
Oberlin Chamber of Commerce (See 31/25)
Oberlin Choristers
Oberlin Christian Alumni Association (OCAA)
Oberlin City (miscellaneous)
Oberlin City: Barber Shop Controversy (See also Barber Shop Segregation Controversy)
Oberlin City: Bikepath
Oberlin City Charter Commission
Oberlin City – Fire Department
Oberlin City Government – Ordinances
Oberlin City – Sister Cities Program
Oberlin City – Swimming Pool/Recreation Center
Oberlin Clubs, Organization in Early 1900’s (and earlier)
Oberlin Coalition Against Racism and War (See CARAW)
Oberlin College Basketball Controversy, 2001-02
Oberlin College Campus Master Plan (See Campus Master Plan)
Oberlin College Car Policy (See also Student Motor Vehicles (On Campus) ; Parking (Campus))
Oberlin College-Community Strings Orchestra
Oberlin College Fashion
Oberlin College Football
Oberlin College – Historical
Oberlin College History, 2000-
“Oberlin College Octette,” Recording on Fonotopia Label
Oberlin College Press
Oberlin College Program Houses
Oberlin College – Ranking
Oberlin College Softball
Oberlin College Technology Upgrade
Oberlin College Term Bill Payments (Late Payments)
Oberlin College Three Year Degree Program (See Degrees, Three Year Program)
Oberlin College Tuition Scholarship Plan
Oberlin College – Visitors
Oberlin Colors & Nickname
Oberlin Community
Oberlin Community Services Council
Oberlin Country Day Camp
Oberlin Customs
Oberlin Design Initiative (ODI)
Oberlin Early Childhood Center
Oberlin Education
Oberlin Elsewhere
Oberlin Evangelist
Oberlin Evangelist Extras (2f)
Oberlin’s Founding Families
Oberlin History – Articles about
Oberlin History – Misc. clippings and letters about (2f)
Oberlin History – Blodgett Sketch
Oberlin History, 1980
Oberlin Hospital
Oberlin Houses (2f)
Oberlin Hurricane Relief
Oberlin in Japan (Obirin Gakuen in Tokyo)
Oberlin in the 1840s
Oberlin Inn (2f)
Oberlin Inn – Clippings
Oberlin: Interagency Council
Oberlin, John Frederick (2f)
Oberlin Korean Students Association (OKSA) (See also 19/3/10)
Oberlin: Latitude and Longitude and Elevation
Oberlin: Little Red Schoolhouse
Oberlin: Maps
Oberlin: Mayors and City Managers
Oberlin Medical Center (See also Allen Memorial Hospital)
Oberlin: Meteorological Records
Oberlin Municipal Light and Power
Oberlin: Music
Oberlin News-Tribune
Oberlin News-Tribune – “Historic Oberlin Today”
Oberlin Night School
Oberlin Online
Oberlin Partnership
Oberlin: Population
Oberlin Prank Stories (See College Pranks)
Oberlin Properties
Oberlin Public Library (2f)
Oberlin Public Library – Educational Research Center
Oberlin Public Library Issue
Oberlin Public Schools
Oberlin Public Schools and College Archives
Oberlin Public Schools Famous Oberlinians Banner Project
*Oberlin Public Schools History, compiled by Prue Richards
Oberlin Quilt
*Oberlin Race Relations Committee (RRC)
“Oberlin Resistance,” 1968
The Oberlin Review (2f)
The Oberlin Review – Articles by Maxine Kaplan
The Oberlin Review News Service
Oberlin Sadomasochism Bondage & Discipline Discussion Group – renamed SECURE: Students Exploring Consent & Understanding Regarding Equity (See also SM/BD Club)
Oberlin School of Commerce
Oberlin Sexual Assault Support Team (SAST)
Oberlin Steel (See Can Consortium)
Oberlin Summer Theater Festival
Oberlin Sustainable Agriculture Project
Oberlin Telegraph School
Oberlin Underground Railroad Center
Oberlin Violin Restoration Workshop
Oberlin-Wellington Rescue – see “Wellington Rescue”
Obiegame
The Observer
OCOPE
Ohio – Areas & Towns in miscellany we have fallen heir to
Ohio Agricultural College, Oberlin
Ohio Census Data
Ohio Public Interest Research Group (OPIRG)
Oldenburg’s Giant Three-Way Plug
“Organize Ohio”
Organs – Oberlin

“Parker Press” – African-American Abolitionist Newsletter
Parking (campus) (See also Oberlin Car Policy ; Student Motor Vehicles (on campus))
Pastors for Peace Caravan – Carpenters for Christmas
Peace Corps
Pease, H. Alonzo
POC – People of Color
Perpetual Scholarships
Peters Hall
Anson Phelps Scholarship, 1890
Photography
Plum Creek Review (See Enchiridion)
Portraits, Statues, Busts, etc. (9 f.)
Powers Travel Grants
Pranks (See College Pranks)
Presidential Search, 1974-75
President’s House – Sit-in Protest
Public Service Studies
Publications

Race Relations, 1900-30
Racism and Freedom of Speech at Oberlin College
Radio (Oberlin College)
Railroads
Rathskellar
Reamer Family
Recreation
Reflecting Pool (Conservatory)
Reminiscences of Oberlin –

Folder I: 1830’s through 1850’s
Folder II: 1850’s through 1870’s
Folder III: 1880’s -
Rhodes Scholars
Ripley, Mississippi, 1964 (See also Antioch Missionary Baptist Church)
Rocks (See RG 0, Series 30. Monuments and Memorials)
Rooming Houses
Roosevelt, Eleanor
ROTC
Ruger, Albert (artist) (See “Bird’s Eye View of Town of Oberlin”)
Russia Township

“Safe Space,” 1980-2003, 2009
“Safe Space” Controversy, 1999
Santa Elena Project of Accompaniment (SEPA)
SAST (See Oberlin Sexual Assault Support Team)
Scholarships & other funds – conditions of their use
Schools
Science at Oberlin
Science Center – See files in College General RG0 on Science Center (Dedication 2002)
Sco’ (College Disco)
SCOPE
Seal – College Seal
Secret Societies
*SECURE (See SD/BM Club)
Seeger, Pete
SEN (Student Education Network)
Senior Assemblies, 1955-72
SEOP (Special Education Opportunities Program)
September 11, 2001 Terrorist Attacks
Sex
Sexual Assault – Barnard Hall, 2001
Sexual Harassment Policy (See Equity, Office of)
Shansi –

File I: through 1980
File II: 1981 to present
Sheffield School, Sheffield Manual Labor Institute
Shipherd Windows (Talcott)
Shouse Scholars
Silsbee, James Lyman (architect)
Singing and Songs
Slave Ship
Slavic Languages at Oberlin
*SM/BD Club – renamed SECURE: Students Exploring Consent & Understanding Regarding Equity
Smith – Gerrit Smith Papers
Smoking at Oberlin
SOA – School of the Americas
Social Activism – Burned Churches
Social Customs (Dating etc.)
Social Justice
Solomon Amendment
South African Investment, 1972 [cataloged]
South African Divestment (See South African Investment)
South Amherst Quarries Development, 2005-06
South Asian Student Organization (SASA)
Spalding Manuscript (4f) (See also Dale Broadhurst Papers 30/294)
Spencerian School of Penmanship
Statistical Profiles of Undergraduates (OC)
Statues, Busts, Portraits (2f) (Renamed – See Portraits, Statues, Busts, etc.)
Steel Drum Band (See Can Consortium (Exco))
Stevenson Dining Hall
“Stewart Plan,” 1956-57
Structural Deficit Program Files, 1995-
Student Employment
Student Labor Action Coalition (SLAC)
Student Motor Vehicles (On Campus) (See also Oberlin Car Policy ; Parking (Campus))
Student Organizations (See RG 19 Student Life files for specific organization files)
Student Organization Charters, files relating to
Student Organizations – Funding
Student Organizations – Handbook and Directories
Student Organizations – misc.
Student Senate
Student Theater
Student Tutoring
Students for a Democratic Society
Sudan
Summer Institute for Office Workers
Sustainable Community Associates, Ltd. (See also The Catalyst)
Summer News (Observer), 1993*

Tabernacle Tent (“Big Tent”)
Tappan Brothers – Arthur & Lewis
Tappan Hall Painting
Tappan Square (2f)
Telephones (e.g., cell)
Temperance
Temperance “Sit-in,” 1882
Terrorist Attacks (See September 11, 2001 Terrorist Attacks)
“Think-in,” 1967
*Third World (Price)
Timeless Topics
Title IX
Town and Gown
Travel – Transportation
Tuition (general) (See also Oberlin College Tuition Scholarship Plan)
Tuition Investigation

UAW*
Ultimate Frisbee Team (See Club Sports)
Underground Railroad (4f)
Underground Railroad Central America
Underground Railroad: Student Projects (2f)
(Oberlin) Underground Railroad Center – see “Oberlin U.R.C.”
Union Library Association
United Way
Upward Bound Program

Viet Nam Era (See also Activism)
Viet Nam Era Reunion, Nov. 3-5, 1990
Visitors (See also Oberlin College – Visitors)
VO(I)CES
Volunteerism

Walker, Mrs. Peggy
Ward, Artemus
Thomas J. Watson Fellows
WAVE Program (Words Are Very Enjoyable)
Weather
Website, Oberlin College
Wellington
Wellington Rescue (2f)
Wellington Rescue – 150th Anniversary (2008)
Western Reserve Historical Society
Westwood Cemetery (See Cemetery – Westwood)
Phyllis Wheatley Center
Wheeler, Robert: Professorship in Conservatory (Re: Margaretta Mclelland Nichols)
White, Michael (Mayor of Cleveland)
Wilson, Woodrow Fellowships (See also Fellowships: Woodrow Wilson)
(Winter Term – transferred to RG 0)
WOBC – see “Radio (Oberlin College)”
Women, sermon by Samuel J. May, November 18, 1846
Women’s Activities (2f)
Women’s Equality Day
Women’s History
Women’s Issues – Women’s publications
Women’s Lib (3f)
Women’s Studies Department
World War I Memorial (See RG 0, Series 30, Monuments & Memorials)
World War II Memorial (See RG 0, Series 30, Monuments & Memorials)
Wright, Frank Lloyd (architect)
Wright, G.F., ed., A Standard History of Lorain County, Ohio
Wright Park (See College General [RG 0, Series 30])

Zechial Debate, 2001
Zionism-Muslim Controversy at Oberlin College

*Missing from files

Revised: Jan. 1994; Feb. 1996; Oct. 1997; Aug. 1998; June 1999; April 2000; June 2002; Nov. 2004;Aug. 2007; Jan. 2011

 
 
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