Description: This image shows an aerial view of Oberlin College's campus in Oberlin, Ohio. Oberlin College was founded in 1832 by Presbyterian minister John L. Shipherd. It quickly grew, primarily due to the support of Charles Grandison Finney, one of the leading religious revivalists of the day. Shipherd intended for the college to educate both men and women. The first women formally admitted to the college program enrolled in 1837. The four women who enrolled that year made Oberlin College the first coeducational college in the United States. Three of the four women graduated with A.B. degrees in 1841. They were the first women in the United States to receive this degree. Oberlin College was also one of the first institutions of higher education to admit African Americans. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL06514
Subjects: Education; Oberlin College; African Americans--History; Women--Education - Ohio
Places: Oberlin (Ohio); Lorain County (Ohio)
 

Description: This image shows the campus of Oberlin College in Oberlin, Ohio. The institution was founded by Presbyterian minister John L. Shipherd in 1832. Shipherd planned for the institution to admit both men and women. The first women formally admitted to the college program enrolled in 1837. The four women who enrolled that year made Oberlin College the first coeducational college in the United States. Three of the four women graduated with A.B. degrees in 1841. They were the first women in the United States to receive this degree. Oberlin College was also one of the first institutions of higher education to admit African Americans. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL06515
Subjects: Women--Education - Ohio; Oberlin College; African Americans--History
Places: Oberlin (Ohio); Lorain County (Ohio)
 

Description: An image of the early campus of Oberlin College in Oberlin, Lorain County, Ohio. Oberlin College and the town of Oberlin were founded by Presbyterian ministers, John J. Shipherd and Philo P. Stewart in 1833. In 1835, it was the first college to admit women and black students. A liberal arts college, it is connected to the Oberlin conservatory of Music, the oldest continuously operating conservatory in the United States. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL06413
Subjects: Oberlin College; Universities and colleges Ohio; African American Ohioans
Places: Oberlin (Ohio); Lorain County (Ohio)
 

Description: Aerial view of Oberlin College, founded in 1833 in Oberlin, Lorain County, Ohio. The photograph was taken ca. 1920-1929. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL00371
Subjects: Oberlin College; Cultural Ohio--Education
Places: Oberlin (Ohio); Lorain County (Ohio)
 

Description: Print of Council Hall at Oberlin College. From "Historical sketches of the higher educational institutions, and also of benevolent and reformatory institutions of the state of Ohio" (1876). View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL04147
Subjects: Oberlin College; College buildings; Universities and colleges--Pictorial works; Cultural Ohio--Education
Places: Oberlin (Ohio); Lorain County (Ohio)
 

Description: Engraved print depicting collegiate buildings on the campus of Oberlin College as they appeared in the 1840s. This print was an illustration in the 1847 edition of "Historical Collections of Ohio" by Henry Howe. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL04148
Subjects: Oberlin College; College buildings; Universities and colleges--Pictorial works; Cultural Ohio--Education
Places: Oberlin (Ohio); Lorain County (Ohio)
 

Description: Reverse reads: "Code - D10; Class - Colleges & Art Galleries; Ident - Art Museum, Oberlin; Location - Oberlin." Words engraved on the front of the building are "The Fine Arts A Heritage From The Past", " To the Arts A Gift to the Future "The Cause of Art is the Cause of the People." Italian Renaissance-style building designed by Cass Gilbert and named after its founder, Dr. Dudley Peter Allen (B.A. 1875), a distinguished graduate and trustee of Oberlin College. The complex of buildings designed in 1917 represents an eclectic dialogue between Tuscan Renaissance and Midwestern vernacular architectural styles. First college art museum west of the Alleghenies The building features a colonnade across the front and is topped with terracotta roof tiles. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B05F02_035_1
Subjects: Architecture--Ohio--Pictorial works.; Education; Universities and colleges; Oberlin College
Places: Oberlin (Ohio); Lorain County (Ohio)
 

Description: Original description reads: "Works Progress Administration in Ohio. Federal Writers Project. 902 Municipal Building Akron. Sept 11, 1937. Lorain County. POI & Educational Institutions. First Congregational Church-Oberlin, Ohio (1842- ). See 'Oberlin College Alumni Catalogue 1833 - 1936' Page 20. for full description of this church. Dist. 6 files." "Erected 1842 A.D." can be seen, in stone, above the main entrance to the square brick building. The construction of the First Congregational Church was begun in 1842, and the building was enclosed that year. The Oberlin College commencement exercises were held in the building in August, 1843, although it was still unfinished. It was completed in August, 1844, and at that time it was the largest building west of the Allegheny mountains. Its total cost was $12,000. It was built of brick and was characterized by rare simplicity and proportion. the audience room furnished seating capacity for 1400 people, and upon many occasions more than 2000 people have been crowded into it. It was used for church services, the Commencement and other public exercises of the Institute and College, and for town meetings. It was the church home for all Oberlin people from 1843 to 1860. In 1860 a membership of 1545 seemed to make necessary a division, resulting in the organization of a second church, called the Second Congreational Church. In 1908, and again in 1927, extensive repairs, alterations and replacements were made. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B08F16_001_1
Subjects: Church buildings--Ohio; Oberlin College
Places: Oberlin (Ohio); Lorain County (Ohio)
 

Description: Dated ca. 1860, this is the earliest known photograph of Oberlin College's campus. A note on the photograph's reverse reads "The view includes two buildings: on the left the Chapel; and on the right Tappan Hall, which contained dormitories for men and classrooms." This photograph is one of the many visual materials collected for use in the Ohio Guide. In 1935, President Franklin D. Roosevelt established the Works Progress Administration by executive order to create jobs for the large numbers of unemployed laborers, as well as artists, musicians, actors, and writers. The Federal Arts Program, a sector of the Works Progress Administration, included the Federal Writers’ Project, one of the primary goals of which was to complete the America Guide series, a series of guidebooks for each state which included state history, art, architecture, music, literature, and points of interest to the major cities and tours throughout the state. Work on the Ohio Guide began in 1935 with the publication of several pamphlets and brochures. The Reorganization Act of 1939 consolidated the Works Progress Administration and other agencies into the Federal Works Administration, and the Federal Writers’ Project became the Federal Writers’ Project in Ohio. The final product was published in 1940 and went through several editions. The Ohio Guide Collection consists of 4,769 photographs collected for use in Ohio Guide and other publications of the Federal Writers’ Project in Ohio from 1935-1939. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B05F02_034_1
Subjects: Education; Universities and colleges; Oberlin College; College campuses; Ohio--History--Pictorial works; Federal Writers' Project
Places: Oberlin (Ohio); Lorain County (Ohio)
 

Description: Portrait of Charles M. Hall (1863-1914), ca. 1890. A graduate of Oberlin College, Hall discovered the electrolytic method of producing aluminum cheaply for commercial use in 1886. He began working for the Pittsburgh Reduction Company, later known as the Aluminum Company of America, and became vice president in 1890. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL03886
Subjects: Oberlin College; Ohio Economy--Science and Technology; Inventors--Ohio
 

Description: Theodore Burton (1851-1929) was born in Jefferson, Ohio, on December 20, 1851, and graduated from Oberlin College in 1872. He began his political career in 1889 after being elected as a Representative and years later as a Senator from Ohio. Throughout his life he had interrupted spells in the US House of Representative and Senate. In 1916, he was a candidate for Republican nomination for president. In 1922, President Warren G. Harding appointed Burton to represent the United States at the World War Debt Funding Commission, and Burton served as the head of the American delegation at the Geneva Conference in 1925. He died in Washington, DC, on October 28, 1929. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL04089
Subjects: Presidents--Election; Other--Federal Government; Cleveland (Ohio); Oberlin College; Politicians
Places: Cleveland (Ohio); Cuyahoga County (Ohio)
 

Description: Wayne B. Wheeler (1869-1927) was an Ohio native and advocate of prohibition. He played an active role in the Ohio Anti-Saloon League, serving as their principle lawyer and eventually heading the whole national organization by 1919. Wheeler died on September 5, 1927. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL03900
Subjects: Westerville (Ohio); Other--Social Welfare; Prohibition; Oberlin College; Social movements
Places: Westerville (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)