Photographs: Portraits: Graduates and Former Students, 1836 to Present | Oberlin College Archives

Title: Photographs: Portraits: Graduates and Former Students, 1836 to Present

ID: RG 32/003/001

Extent: 17.4 Linear Feet

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Acquired: 1966. Accession No: May include 127, 128, 130, 133, 168, 175, 1986/010, 1986/029, 1987/069, 1988/101, 1989/026, 1989/037, 1989/064, 1989/078, 1989/101, 1991/140, 1991/052, 1991/140, 1993/052, 1995/019, 1999/119, 2001/022, 2010/083, 2011/005, 2011/032, 2013/012.

Restrictions: Unrestricted.

Rights: Those photographs taken for the college as works for hire belong to the college outright. Photographs from the late twentieth century and later with stamps from photographic firms are more likely to have requirements as to credit lines or restrictions; consult the College Archivist.

Acquisition Note:

Most of the student photographs were transferred from the Office of the Secretary in the early years of the Archives’ establishment in 1966. Student photographs have been received intermittently since that time, primarily from the Office of Communications and from private individuals.

The college hired freelance photographers in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. In 1917 a college photographer position was created for Arthur Ludwig Princehorn. He and his son Arthur Ewing Princehorn produced nearly all of the college’s negatives and photographs from 1917 to 1969 (see the Princehorn Family Papers, RG 30/416). Sometimes photographers’ names appear stamped or inscribed on the backs of prints.

In 2009 the Communications Office moved to a different building on campus, and a great many photographs, negatives, and other visual materials were transferred to the Archives that year. Most of this material dated from the 1980s through the early 2000s.

Related Materials:

Students: World War I, RG 32/1

Miscellaneous Photographs, RG 32/2

Faculty, Staff, Trustees and Others, RG 32/3/2

Class Albums, RG 32/3/3

Daguerreotypes, Ambrotypes, and Tintypes, RG 32/3/4

Photograph Albums, RG 32/7

Hi-O-Hi Yearbook Photographs, RG 32/8

Slides, RG 32/9

Oversize Photographs, RG 32/10

Panorama and Rolled Miscellaneous Photographs, RG 32/11

See also: Howard B. Robinson Papers, 30/189. <style type="text/css"> </style>

Finding Aid Revisions: Processed by Archives staff. Finding guide prepared by Anne Cuyler Salsich, 15 April 2014.

Collection Material Type: Artificial Collection

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Scope and Contents:

Loose photographs of graduates and former students are arranged chronologically by graduating class, beginning with 1836. Files include photographs taken while students attended Oberlin, and also after they left. Many of the latter were taken during class reunions.

Some students went on to become faculty or staff members at Oberlin College, or received honorary degrees. Therefore researchers should consult both this record group and that for Faculty, Staff, Trustees and Others, RG 32/3/2. Some photographs of students can be found in the student files in record group 28. See Related Materials for a list of other record groups that hold images of former students.

One box contains photographs of Academy or Preparatory Department students, and unidentified students.

Born digital photographs are stored on Archives computers and listed in Series 1, Subseries 2.

INVENTORY

Series 1. Graduates and Former Students, 1836-Present

Subseries 1. Analog Photographs

Boxes 1-44

Graduates and Former Students, 1836-Present

Subseries 2. Born Digital Photographs

Archives Computer

Classes of 2001-02, 2004-06, 2008

Series 2. Academy and Preparatory Department Students, and Unidentified

Students

Box 1

Academy and Preparatory Department Students, and unidentified students,

c. 1900-04

Box 2

John Copeland family photographs (copies) and geneological chart -- Reference

only; consult Archivist (courtesy of Brenda Pitts, 2001)