Photographs: Miscellaneous Subjects, 1882-1982, n.d. | Oberlin College Archives

Acquired: 1966. Unaccessioned.

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: The bulk of the photographic record of the college was transferred without accession from the Office of the Secretary after the establishment of the Archives in 1966.  Since that time photographs have come from a variety of offices and individuals.   The older prints, dating from the 1850s to the later 1910s, were produced by independent photographers in the region.  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).  The prints for this period were derived from negatives kept by the college photographers and noted on a log sheet by year.  Later the College used photographers working in the college’s Communications Office, or local commercial photographers, and negatives were not systematically recorded or kept.

Related Materials:

Photographs: Subjects (32/5)

Photographs: Oversize Prints (32/10)

Panorama and Rolled Miscellaneous Photographs (32/11)

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

Collection Material Type: Artificial Collection