Artz Scholars for 2013 Announced

Three scholars have been selected to receive a Frederick B. Artz Summer Research Grant to support their research this summer at the Oberlin College Archives. We look forward to welcoming them in the near future.

Finbarr Curtis, Department of Religious Studies, University of Alabama

"You and You and You: Charles Grandison Finney and the Democratization Question Revisited"

Nicholas Guyatt, Department of History, University of York, York, UK

"Racial Equality and Programs of Racial Separation in the Republic"

Adina Langer, Independent Researcher, Haslett, Michigan

"History of the Oberlin Experimental College"

For more information on the Artz Summer Research Grant Program please visit http://www.oberlin.edu/archive/artz/index.html

New Exhibit on the Tony Musante Collection in Mudd Center

Tony Musante as Hector in the Oberlin Dramatic Association's 

November 1957 production of Tiger at the Gates

An Actor's Actor: The Papers of Tony Musante '58

Academic Commons, Mudd Center, March 3-17

Goodrich Room, 4th Floor Mudd Center, March 18-29

Tony Musante recently donated his personal papers relating to his acting roles in film, television, and theater productions from 1954 to 2012 to the Oberlin College Archives. 

An exhibit featuring photographs, scripts, playbills, posters signed by co-stars and production crews, and DVDs of many of his movies and television shows will be on display in Mudd Center from March 3-29, 2013.

Selections from the Archives Objects Collection

Our first exhibit in the new cabinets!  Featured are a variety of objects, including trophies, cups, fans, commemorative plates, reunion hats and parasols, and some truly unusual objects unique to Oberlin's history.  Visit us and find out what these mysterious objects tell us about Oberlin!

First class in our new classroom!

Professor Yuri Ijiri's FYSP 143, Deconstructing Technology, visits the Archives on September 20.  Ken Grossi, College Archivist, demonstrates archival materials using the new document camera, above. Below, Professor Ijiri looks on as students peruse materials relevant to the invention of the telephone by Oberlinian Elisha Gray and his rival Alexander Graham Bell in 1876. Elisha Gray is thought to be the true inventor of the telephone, though Bell won the patent, with the stipulation that Gray receive 20% of proceeds from the rental of telephone equipment. 

New Reading Room and Classroom for Archives and Special Collections

Exciting news here in the Archives!  New reading room, new classroom, new website, and a new system for providing online access to our finding guides.  

First, we welcome you to our beautiful new reading room and teaching classroom. We are back on Mudd Center’s 4^th floor after a summer of serving researchers in a temporary room on the 2^nd floor. For the first time Archives and Special Collections have a teaching classroom, equipped with a ceiling camera and large monitor for demonstrating archival and special collections materials to groups of students, faculty and visitors. 

Second, we hope you like our new website modeled on the Library-wide new website. Some of our pages are still under construction and if you have trouble finding something, please contact us.

Third, we are in the process of moving over 600 finding guides to our collections into a new system for online access. Right now we have about 95 guides in the new system, linked on our website. Again, if you can’t find what you’re looking for, please contact us!