OBERLIN COLLEGE ARCHIVES GEOFFREY T. BLODGETT PAPERS

INVENTORY

Subgroup I. Biographical, 1943-46, 1949-66, 1977-78, 1993, 1998-2002, ca. 2011 (1.81 l.f.)

Box 1 Awards Alumni Medal, May 2000 Heisman Club Award (remarks by Jane Blodgett), May 2000 Birthday (70th) tribute, 2001 Clippings, 1946, 1952, 1954, 1999-2000, n.d. Curriculum vitae, 1978, 1993, 2000 Employment search Oberlin faculty appointment, 1960 Other teaching job applications, 1959-60 Fellowships, 1959-60 (See also SG III, Series 3) Football Memorabilia/Reunions “Football Memories,” compiled booklet of clippings and photographs, ca. 2011 “Oberlin Football, 1950 and 1951,” booklet for reunion event, May 23, 1998 Graduate Education Graduate school applications: Cornell University, Harvard University, 1953, 1955, n.d. Harvard University, Teaching Assistant for Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., 1956-60 PhD thesis correspondence, 1958-65 Oberlin College Commencement programs, 1953 Diploma, 1953 Memorial Minute by Robert Longsworth, April 16, 2002 Memorial service eulogies and programs, December 8, 2001 Notes on the Oberlin College Men’s Board, ca. 1949-53 Oberlin Community Tax proposal, ca. 1963 Estate of Frederick B. Artz for the Monroe House, Oberlin Historical and Improvement Organization (includes Last Will and Testament), 1977 Tributes, 1993 United States Navy Correspondence, 1951 Officer’s Correspondence Record, “C Jacket,” 1951-65 Officer Service Record for Geoffrey Blodgett, 1953-66

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Subgroup I. Biographical (cont.)

Box 1 (cont.) United States Navy (cont.) Honorable Discharge Certificate, 1966

Box 2 (oversize) Scrapbooks “Invasion of Europe” (news clippings), 1943-45 Oberlin College memorabilia (news clippings, photographs, programs, letters), 1949-53

Subgroup II. Correspondence, 1897-2001 (span) (6.2 l.f.)

Series 1. Autograph Letters, 1897-2001 (span) (0.4 l.f.)

Box 1 Signed letters selected by Blodgett, 1897-2001 (span) (Arranged alphabetically—index in first folder)

Series 2. Name Files, 1941, 1962-63, 1965-68, 1972-2001, n.d. (1.4 l.f.)

Box 1 Abrams, Richard, 1962-63 Axelrod, Reed, 1990-93, 1997, n.d. Berthoff, Rowland, 1979-80, 1982, 1986-87, 1992-95, n.d. Bigglestone, William, 1980, 1986-88, 1991-92, 1995-98, 2000, n.d. Blanck, Tom, 1978, 1998-2001, n.d. (2f) Brandt, Nat, 1991-92, 1997, 2001, n.d. Calvert, James, 1996-97, n.d. Dawley, Alan, 1963, 2000 Dye, Nancy, 1994-96, 1998 Eginton, Drew, 1979, 1981-95, 1997-2001, n.d. (3f) Erba, Annalisa, 1992-95 Glavin, John, 1976-77, n.d. Ganzel, Carol and Dewey, 1968, 1980

Box 2 Griswold, Harriet, 1941, 1986-88, n.d. Griswold, Erwin N., 1987, 1991-92 Oral history, 1983-85 Jerauld, Jean F., 1986-2000, n.d.

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Subgroup II. Correspondence (cont.) Series 2. Name Files (cont.)

Box 2 (cont.) Kalfus, Melvin, 1990, 1992

Box 3 Kelley, Robert, 1977 Koppes, Clayton, 1977-83, 1985, 1987-88, 1990, 1992, 1996-2000, n.d. LeDuc, Tom, 1987-88, 1998-2001, n.d.

Box 3 (cont.) Longsworth, Robert M., 1980, 1982, 1984, 1991-92, 1997, 2000, n.d. McGill, Barry, 1965-67, 1972-73, 1987, n.d. Meilaender, Gilbert, 1991, 1996-2001, n.d. Mosher, Charles A., 1962-63 Munroe, William, 1989, 1995-96 Neil, Bob, 1966, 1975, 1991 Reisman, David, 1974-89 (4f)

Box 4 Schulze, Franz, 1988, 1995-2001 Scott, Anne Firor, 1981-82 Severens, Kenneth, 1975-79, n.d. Skipper, Nancy, 1981, 1990-92, 1994-95, 2000-01 Starr, Frederick, 1982-97, 2000, n.d. (7f) Suny, Ronald, 1972-74, 1977-81, n.d. Willen, Paul, 1981-85, 1987, 1991, 1995, 2000

Series 3. Chronological Files, 1956-2001 (4.4 l.f.)

Subseries 1. Oberlin College Correspondence, 1959-2001 (1.2 l.f.)

Box 1 Oberlin correspondence, 1959-79 (16f)

Box 2 Oberlin correspondence, 1980-89 (10f)

Box 3 Oberlin correspondence, 1990-2001 (11f)

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Subgroup II. Correspondence (cont.) Series 3. Chronological Files (cont.)

Subseries 2. Other Correspondence, 1956-2001 (3.2 l.f.)

Box 1 Correspondence, 1956-67 (11f)

Box 2 Correspondence, 1967-72 (11f)

Box 3 Correspondence, 1972-76 (9f)

Box 4 Correspondence, 1977-81 (9f)

Box 5 Correspondence, 1981-85 (9f)

Box 6 Correspondence, 1986-91 (9f)

Box 7 Correspondence, 1992-95 (8f)

Box 8 Correspondence, 1996-2001 (8f)

Subgroup III. Oberlin College Records, 1890, 1908, 1921-23, 1925, ca. 1928, 1933, 1936, 1941, 1945-49, 1951, 1954, 1956-57, 1959-2000, n.d. (1.65 l.f.)

Series 1. Department of History, 1936, 1946, 1951, 1956-57, 1961-62, 1964- 76, 1978-81, 1983, 1985-89, 1991-94, 1996, 1998-2000, n.d. (0.25 l.f.)

Box 1 Faculty portraits exhibit in Rice Hall, 1988-89, 1996 History Department Honors Program History of the Honors Program, 1961, 1966-68, 1980, 1992-94, n.d. U.S. History Honors Program Prospectus, 1976-78, 1992, n.d. History of the History Department, 1951, 1956-57, 1970-75, 1985-88, 1993, 1996, 1998

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Subgroup III. Oberlin College Files (cont.) Series 1. Department of History (cont.)

Box 1 (cont.) Life Prize in U.S. History, 1961-62, 1964-65, 1968, 1978-79, 1981, 1983, 1985-87, 1991, 1993-94, 1998-99, n.d. Student opinion polls at Oberlin, 1936, 1946, 1956, 1965, 1967, 1976, 1988, 1992 (3f) Teaching History at Oberlin, 1962, 1970, 1988, 2000 Visiting speakers in American History, 1968-70, n.d.

Series 2. General College, 1890, 1908, 1921-23, 1925, ca. 1928, 1936, 1941, 1945-49, 1954, 1957, 1959-61, 1963, 1966, 1968-70, 1973, 1976-2000, n.d. (1.0 l.f.)

Box 1 (cont.) Alumni Association travel vacation, Mississippi Steamboat Cruise with lecturer G.T. Blodgett, 1999, 2000 Correspondence, passenger lists, lecture source material, 1999 Promotional material, 1999 Architecture and Landscaping Architectural Advisory Committee (Ad Hoc) Finney Capel Renovation, 1981-82 Langston (North) Hall, 1986-87, 1990, 1994, n.d. Severance and Wright Laboratories, link between, 1982 Student Union, 1982 Bandstand Design Competition, 1961, 1983-88, n.d. (3f) Campus landscaping, 1976-80, 1983, n.d. Cox Administration Building Renovation Committee, 1984-85 Finney Chapel Rose Window Project Committee files, 1984, 1987-91 Correspondence with artist and fabricator, 1990-91 Dedication and press coverage, 1991-92 Research materials, 1908, 1921-23, 1925 Writings For committee, 1976, n.d. For The Observer, 1982 John Frederick Oberlin Monument, 1992, 1994-95 Peters Hall Renovation Correspondence, notes, 1992-93 Printed matter, 1976-77, 1983, 1992-93 Report of Committee on Living Conditions for Men, ca. 1928 Athletics policy, 1954, 1957, 1968, 1973, 1978, 1992, 1994-96

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Subgroup III. Oberlin College Files (cont.) Series 2. General College (cont.)

Box 1 (cont.) Carnegie Library Main Lobby exhibit, 1978, 1981-83, 1990, n.d. College (and General) Faculty Council, 1973, 1992, 1999 Conference planning at Oberlin Coeducation Conference, March 11-13, 1983; 1981-83, n.d. Faculty and administrative appointments, leave policies, 1936, 1941, 1946, 1948- 49, 1959-60, 1963, 1966, 1969, 1988-91, 1993-94, 1997-98 Football, History of Brandt, Nathaniel—When Oberlin was King: The Heisman Years, 1997-99 “Report in Favor of Retaining Intercollegiate Football,” January 1978 Governance Background, 1890, 1933 Committees on student participation in faculty meetings, 1966, 1968-69, n.d. Crisis File kept by Prof. Warren Taylor General, 1945-49, n.d. Finney Compact, 1973, 1983-86, 1992, 1998 “Observations on the History of Governance at Oberlin College,” manuscript, January 1973 (See also Blodgett, Oberlin History: Essays and Impressions, Kent State University Press, 2006) Remarks delivered in faculty meeting, November 1, 1988 Vietnam War “College and Commitment: A Glance at the Past,” in The College and the War, Oberlin College, February 1969 Faculty letter to President Nixon, 1970

Series 3. Professional Activity, 1933, 1961-68, 1970-95, 1997-2000, n.d. (0.4 l.f.)

Box 2 Awards, 1966-67, 1970-71 Consulting Rutherford B. Hayes Presidential Center, 1981-84, 1986, n.d. Danforth Fellowship, 1988 Fellowships and grants, 1961-64, 1968, 1970, 1972-77, 1979-81, 1987, 1989-90 Guest lectureships and summer teaching at other colleges, 1962, 1965-68, 1973-76 Johns Hopkins University, American Seminar lecture on Cass Gilbert, 1983-84

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Subgroup III. Oberlin College Files (cont.) Series 3. Professional Activity (cont.)

Box 2 (cont.) Memberships, 1995 Research status appointments, 1965-67, 1972, 1982-83, 1995, 1997 Sabbaticals, 1979, 1991 Symposia, Conferences and Colloquia (cont.) American Historical Association Annual Meeting, “The Political Leadership of Grover Cleveland,” Los Angeles, 1981; 1981-82 (See also SG VII. Series 1. Subseries 3. Articles) Cass Gilbert and our Museum: A Celebration of Renewal, Allen Memorial Art Museum symposium, May 26, 2000; 1999-2000 Cass Gilbert: The Minnesota Years (lecture series), “From Hard Times to Take-off: Gilbert’s Career, 1887 to 1894,” Cass Gilbert Society, St. Paul, MN, 1999 Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, National Gallery of Art: From Regional to National Architect: Cass Gilbert, Life and Work, “Cass Gilbert and the Politics of Public Architecture,” November 1998 (See also SG VII. Series 1. Subseries 1. Manuscripts) Education, Evangelicalism, and Perfectionism: The Celebration of Charles G. Finney, 1792-1875, “Finney and the Finney Compact,” Oberlin College, September 10-11, 1992; 1991-92, n.d. Ohio Academy of History Conference, comment on Cleveland Architecture panel, April 21, 1990 Politics in Boston: Mirror for a City, “Yankee Leadership in a Divided City, 1860-1910,” Boston College and the John F. Kennedy Library, Boston, MA, April 25-26, 1980; 1979-80 Society of Architectural Historians Annual Meeting, “The Changing Functions and Appearance of Oberlin’s Finney Chapel,” April 29, 1994; 1933, 1973, 1982, 1993-94 Unknown conference, “Architectural Politics in the Gilded Age: William Dorsheimer and the Reform of the Albany Capitol in the 1870s,” August; October 27, 1980 Urban History Colloquia, 1984-86, 1988, 1992-93, 1997 The Victorian Society in America and NARA, “The Mugwump Style and Its Changing Reputation, 1870 to the Present,” Washington, D.C., March 1979; 1978-80

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Subgroup IV. Teaching Files, 1928-2000 (span) (7.2 l.f.)

Series 1. Course Materials, 1928-2000 (span) (4.55 l.f.)

Box 1 American History American Historiography, 1967, 1974, 1979 American History to 1865, 1964, n.d. (8f) American History from 1877, 1960-71, 1982-89, n.d. (6f) American Intellectual History, 1966-2000, n.d. (41f)

Box 1A American Historiography (cont.), 1928-29, 1932, 1934, 1940-41, 1949, 1951-62, 1965-67, 1969-71, 1976-79, n.d. (4f)

Box 2 American Intellectual History, 1966-2000, n.d. (26f) American Revolutionary Thought, 1982, 1984, 1987, n.d. (2f) Emergence of Modern America, 1966-2000, n.d. (14f) Issues in American Political History, 1986-88 Oberlin College History Seminar, 1970, 1982-83, 1993-95 (2f)

Box 3 Architectural History Grand March of Oberlin Campus Plans, 1995, 1999-2000 Oberlin Preservation Landmarks, n.d. Architectural Record, “Critique” and “Analysis,” 1999 Historic Preservation—Oberlin, 1971-73, 1975, 1978-79, 1990, 1992, 1995, n.d. Wolfe Academy Seminar on Vernacular Arch., 1987, 1991, n.d. Oberlin College Buildings, 1981, n.d. HIST 251 Second Paper—Guidelines and Questions, 1981-82, 1984-85, n.d. Deconstructivism, 1993 Preservation and Planning, 1977, 1979-81, 1984-85, n.d. Oberlin Architecture Checklist, 1972, 1974-79, n.d. Materials for Oberlin Architectural History, 1954-55, 1965-66, 1969, 1971- 72, 1976, n.d. Social History of American Architecture, 1956-2000, n.d. (29f) The American City, 1986, n.d. (2f)

Box 4 Social History of American Architecture, 1960-2000, n.d. (span) (10f) Social History of American Architecture, 1972-96, n.d. (span) (3f)

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Subgroup IV. Teaching Files (cont.)

Series 2. Student Papers and Honors Theses, 1963, 1966, 1970-71, 1974, 1976-77, 1982, 1984, 1987-88, 1989-90, 1992-95, 1998- 2000, n.d. (1.45 l.f.) (Restricted from copying)

Box 1 Ahern, Bert “The Pacifist Response to World War I,” 1963 Beilis, Fay Anne “The Pre-Preservation History of Oberlin College,” 1995 Berndt, Kimberley Elisabeth “Hope Hibbard: An Educator,” 1993 Blodgett, David Murray “The Dime Novel in America’s Gilded Age,” 1966 Boardman, P. Craig “Knight of Doleful Countenance,” 1995 Bradfield, Anthony “The Development of an American Physical Consciousness,” 1990 Brennan, Thomas F. “An Absence of Consensus: Oberlin During World War II,” 1983 Bressler, Steven Y. “Social Skill, Political Will,” 1994 Buckmaster, Anita “A Lack of Communication,” 1995 Candee, Richard M. “’Selling the War to America’: Techniques in the Creation of Public Opinion, 1917-1919,” 1963 Cigliano, Jan E. “Norris, Tennessee: America’s Forgotten TVA New Town,” 1982 “The Euclid Avenue Elite, Cleveland, Ohio, 1860-1910: Work, Life and Architecture,” 1978 Dawley, Alan “Negro Intellectuals in the 1930s: Richard Wright, A. Philip Randolph, and Walter White,” n.d. De Laszlo, Kathryn “The Armour-Stiner Octagon House: Irvington, New York,” 1984 Dick, Hadyn W. “American Dreams, American Dilemmas: The Life and Times of Carl T. Rowan,” 1996 Dyson, Jon-Paul “The Great Awakening: Social and Economic Causes,” 1989 Eiferman, Abby “The Beat Generation and the 1950s,” 1971

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Subgroup IV. Teaching Files (cont.) Series 2. Student Papers and Honors Theses (cont.)

Box 1 (cont.) Esainko, Kymry “’And Some There Are Which Have No Memorial…’: Eighty Years of Music in Oberlin’s Warner Hall,” 1995 Fenton, Michael H. “Lorain, Ohio, U.S.A. 1937-1941: A History of an Ohio Steeltown from Recession to War,” 2000 Fisher, Dara “The Shriek of the Dobbin: The Hippie Movement, San Francisco,” 1993 Glenn, David “Abolitionism and Radical Evangelicism 1830-1842,” 1987 “Sidney Hook and The American Left,” 1988 Gorney, Rachel “The Oberlin Cooperatives: A Political History,” 1992 Green, David “The Politics of Reform: Oberlin College in the Fuller Years,” 1977 Haskell, Susan “Eleanor ‘Bumpy’ Stevenson: Oberlin’s ‘First Lady’ and More, 1946-1959,” 1994 Hotchkiss, Daniel D. “Student Co-Ops in Oberlin College,” 1976 Kaplan, Bruce “The Thought of Daniel DeLeon,” 1993 Kearns, Michael “Decency Made Visible: The Early New England Town,” 1971 Kellner, Karl “The Emergence of American Urban Youth Culture, 1890-1910,” 1992 Kimmage, Michael “Oberlin and the Educational Philosophy of Robert Fuller,” 1994 “The Search for Salvation and the Struggle with Alienation: An Essay on Russian and American Social Criticism,” 1995 “The Politics of Indifference,” 1994 “A Look at Williams James and Anton Chekov through Their Letters,” n.d. “The Force of Democracy in the Words of Walt Whitman,” 1992 Kresh, Jennifer F. “Oberlin Searches, 1959-1983,” 1983 Landau, Steven “Oberlin College Architecture—Part II: The History of Master Planning From 1903 to 1973,” 1982

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Subgroup IV. Teaching Files (cont.) Series 2. Student Papers and Honors Theses (cont.)

Box 1 (cont.) Legg, Douglas B. “Hearts, Minds and Tongues: A History of Speech and Debate at Oberlin College,” 1982 Linicum, Shirley “The American Public Library Building: A Social History and Feminist Critique,” 1993 Lyons, Katharine “Denise Scott Brown,” 1998 McGinley, Alexandra “The Impact of the 1960s at Oberlin College,” 1995 Mellquist, Nils A. “The Oberlin College Teacher’s Association Unionization Attempt of 1974,” 1992 Meyer, Andrea “History of Jews at Oberlin College: A Mirror of Change—A Reflection of Society,” 1989 Mielke, Amy “’He who believes in the Devil, already belongs to him,’” 1992 “Women’s Suffrage and Liberalism at Oberlin College (1910-1920),” 1994 “Charlotte Perkins Gilman: Radical Feminist,” 1993 “Charlotte Perkins Gilman and Eleanor Roosevelt: A Comparison of the Lives and Works of Two American Reformers,” 1993 Miller, Emily “The Philosophers of Student Life: Deans of Women and Men at Oberlin,” 1982 Mugel, Richard L. “Oberlin College and the Second World War,” 1982 Orleans, Ellen “Oberlin College Commencements: Their Evolutions and Implications,” 1982 Orloff, Rich “Days of Possibilities” (play), 1990 Peterson, Sarah “The Evolution of the Genteel Elite: from the Victorian age to the 1920s,” n.d. Piez, Eleanor “The Oberlin Student Cooperatives,” 1982 Potter, Marian “History of OSCA: Insight into the Last Ten Years of Political History of the Oberlin Student Cooperative Association,” 1998

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Subgroup IV. Teaching Files (cont.) Series 2. Student Papers and Honors Theses (cont.)

Box 1 (cont.) Sampsen, Gretchen “The Decade the Rules Changed: Social Rules at Oberlin College, 1960-1970,” 1995 Schwarz, Jodi “Revolt of the Youth: An Analysis of the 1920s,” 1987 Sévos, Carolyn A. “The Tradition of the Graduate School of Theology: A Two Century Legacy,” 1992 Sienko, David “The Harlem Renaissance and Alain Locke’s New Negro,” 1990 Smiley, Nick “The Failed Experiment of 60s Pluralism,” 1987 Smith, Timothy Kinte “Emil Charles Dannenberg: Persuasive Leadership at Oberlin,” 1993 Solan, Victoria “From Bauhaus to Lever House: Illustrated Appendix,” 1994 “’Built for Health:’ American Architecture and the Healthy House, 1850-1930,” 1999 Stickler, Jane “Walter Rauschenbusch and the Social Gospel Movement,” 1990 Ting, Jan “Oberlin College during World War II,” 1970 Towbin, Jessica “Ernest Hatch Wilkins and Academic Excellence at Oberlin College,” 1992 Ubbelohde, Susan “Thomas Jefferson and Frank Lloyd Wright as American Architects,” 1974 Weddle, Julie “Existenialism and New Left,” 1988 Willeke, Andrew “A History of the Secret Societies Rule at Oberlin College,” 1992

Series 3. Student Correspondence, 1966, 1970, 1977-78,1980, 1988-2001, n.d. (0.2 l.f.) (Restricted)

Box 1 A-F, 1966, 1988-89, 1991-95, 1999-2000, n.d. G-P, 1980, 1988-92, 1995-96, 1998-2001, n.d. R-Z, unidentified, 1970, 1980, 1988-89, 1991-98, 2000, n.d.

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Subgroup IV. Teaching Files (cont.) Series 3. Student Correspondence (cont.)

Box 1 (cont.) Extended correspondence David Green, 1977-1978 Michael Kimmage, 1994, 1996, n.d.

Series 4. Class Lists, Exams, and Grade Books, 1986-99 (0.6 l.f.) (Restricted)

Box 1 Class Lists, 1986-99 (18f) Course Evaluations, 1994-95, 1997 (8f) Student Exams, 1992-93

Box 2 Grade books, 1960-1986

Series 5. Recommendation Letters, 1961-99 (span) (0.4 l.f.) (Restricted)

Box 1 A-Berdahl, 1963-98, n.d. (span) Berlin-Brown, 1966-99, n.d. (span) Bruce-Clayton, 1961-96, n.d. (span) Cobb-Dyson, 1966-98, n.d. (span) Eaton-Gilmour, 1961-94, n.d. (span) GIinzberg-Hiller, 1961-2000, n.d. (span) Hirsch-Kronick, 1961-98, n.d. (span) Krulwich-L, 1963-99, n.d. (span) M-Mueller, 1962-97, n.d. (span) Mueller-Roberts, 1961-99, n.d. (span) Robertson-Schechter, 1963-98, n.d. (span) Schiffman-Spanier, 1962-99, n.d. (span) Spina-Wagner, 1963-96, n.d. (span) Ward-Z, 1964-99, n.d. (span) Unidentified, 1988, n.d.

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Subgroup V. Talks, 1940-2000 (span) (0.8 l.f.)

Series 1. Talks by Blodgett, 1958, 1960-69, 1972, 1974-80, 1982-84, 1986- 2000, n.d. (0.7 l.f.)

Box 1 Announcements and correspondence, 1969, 2000 “The American Political Party System Historically Considered,” Washington, March 28, 1969 Notes, March 1969 “A Brief History of Oberlin College: 1833-1972,” Freshman Orientation talk, September 1972 “The Changing Functions and Appearance of Oberlin’s Finney Chapel,” panel talk, April 1994 Class reunion talks (Classes of 1936, 1937, 1940), 1991-92, 1995, 1997 “Conservative Revival: Illusion or Reality?” (text, notes, correspondence), Rochester, NY, May 4, 1962 “Domestic Architecture in the Gilded Age,” Rutherford B. Hayes Presidential Center, January 28, 1988 “The Example of American Freedom,” Humanities Lecture, Oberlin College, October 9, 1961 “Finney’s Oberlin,” October 1975 “Frederick Law Olmstead: From Whence the Denison Campus Design” (notes), Denison, OH, September 16, 1996 “Historical Methods of Inquiry,” October 19, 1982 “The History and Renovation of Oberlin’s Peters Hall,” September 1, 1993 “History of OC Curriculum in Ten Minutes,” notecards, April 1979 “Introduction to Wm. McDonough,” September 16, 2000 “Isolation of the Liberal Elite in America, 1860-1900,” October 23, 1969 “The Meaning of the Mississippi,” March 1999 “The Negro Revolt in Historical Perspective,” April 16, 1963 “Oberlin College and Asa Mahan,” Adrian College, January 27, 1984 “Oberlin Starts the Civil War,” on Nat Brandt’s The Town that Started the Civil War (1990), Oberlin Inn, May 6, 1990 “Oberlin versus Oberlin,” Honors Day Address, Oberlin College, May 10, 1999 Announcements, notes, clippings, program, 1983, 1988, 1997, 1999 “Oberlin’s Place in History,” September 1980, September 1988 “Recollection of the 1960s—and Beyond,” January 1992 “Remarks at the Dedication of the [John Brown] Monument on East Vine Street,” Oberlin, October 15, 1972 “Some Thoughts on Oberlin History,” student orientation talk, ca. 1990s “The Third American Revolution,” Senior Assembly talk (text and recording on cassette tape), Oberlin College, May 16, 1963 (cassette tape located in Subgroup VIII, Series 3, Box 3)

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Subgroup V. Talks (cont.) Series 1. Talks by Blodgett (cont.)

Box 1 (cont.) “What I Teach and Why I Teach It” (typed note cards), October 4, 1988 Untitled or recurring talks Comment for session on Cleveland architecture, Ohio Academy of History conference, April 21, 1990 Commentary for overview session on “The New Nation, 1877-1900,” Annual Meeting of the Organization of American Historians, Harvard University, April 16, 1974 For “Ohio Scholar” prospective students and their parents, April 19, 1986 For Washington prospective students (notes), October 26, 1986 Hall Auditorium, February 1, 1989 Josiah Quincy (abstract), n.d. Oberlin, November 14, 1986 Oberlin Alumni Club talk on the Gilded Age, Washington, D.C., 1966-67 Oberlin Alumni Club talk, Washington, D.C., May 9, 1967

Box 2 Oberlin architecture talks and research materials, 1975-78, 1980, 1982- 84, 1987-88, 1995-98 Peters Hall renovation, February 11, 1994 Reunion talk, Oberlin Class of 1965 25th reunion, May 1990; 1968, 1989-90 Talk for Alumni Council, September 1993 Talks for Mississippi Steamboat Cruise, Alumni Association vacation travel, 1999-2000 “The Meaning of the Mississippi,” 1999 Untitled, n.d. Special Talks (designated by Blodgett) “Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.” Western Reserve History Club, Cleveland, OH, May 11, 1961 “The Bicentennial and the American Revolution,” 1976 “The City: What is It?” three televised talks on WKYC Cleveland, 1965-66, n.d. “The Fighting of the American Revolution,” 1976 The Humanities Lectures, Oberlin College “The Example of American Freedom,” October 9, 1961 “The Jeffersonian Pastoral,” May 1966 “Social Darwinism in America,” April 1, 1968 (See also Talks by Others) Lecture on business and politics, 1860-1896, given to Arthur Schlesinger’s Intellectual History class at Harvard University, 1958

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Subgroup V. Talks (cont.) Series 1. Talks by Blodgett (cont.)

Box 2 (cont.) Special Talks (cont.) “Lincoln and the Coming of the Civil War,” First Church at Oberlin, October 1961 “Mencken and the Intellectuals,” Prof. Ganzel’s American Literature class, May 1, 1962 NDEA (National Defense Education Act) lectures on Progressivism, 1890- 1914; ca. 1965 Introduction “Aspects of Progressivism” “The Meaning of the Populist Revolt” “The Origins of Progressivism” NDEA History Institute, “The Intellectual Origins of the New Deal,” July 21, 1967 “Negro Revolt in Historical Perspective,” for SNCC fund drive, research materials (no talk text), 1961, 1963 Oberlin College educational mood, for The Oberlin Review, 1961 “On the state of the social sciences,” Parents’ Weekend Talk, Oberlin College, May 1965 Peace Corps lectures, 1963-64 “Recent Developments in American History,” 1962 “The Third American Revolution,” Senior Assembly, May 16, 1963 Wellington High School remarks, May 5, 1964

Series 2. Talks by Others, 1940, 1943, 1948, 1951-52, 1954, 1960-61, 1964, 1988, 1990, 1993, 1995-96, 1999-2000 (0.1 l.f.)

Box 2 (cont.) Artz, Frederick B., “History,” Assembly Talk, October 28, 1948 Craig, Norman “Four Giants in a College Chemistry Department: Oberlin College, 1880- 1957,” New Orleans, August 1995 “Reducing the Thousands to the Few: Complete Structures of Nonpolar Molecules from Infrared Spectroscopy,” New Orleans, March 26, 1996 (incomplete) “Remarks at the Groundbreaking for the New Science Center,” Oberlin, November 6, 1999 Fletcher, Robert S. “National Affairs in 1939,” Assembly Talk, February 1, 1940 “On Writing a History,” Senior Assembly Address, May 4, 1943

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Subgroup V. Talks (cont.) Series 2. Talks by Others (cont.)

Box 2 (cont.) Fletcher, Robert S. (cont.) “Rescue,” Senior Assembly, April 25, 1952 “Within These Walls,” Assembly Talk, February 18, 1954 Greenberg, Nathan A., “The Mockery of Conventions,” Senior Assembly, April 30, 1964 The Humanities Lectures, Oberlin College Cole, L.E., “The Universal Fiction,” 1961 Lanyi, George A. “Society and Its Self,” 1960 “The Threefold Challenge of Communism,” 1961 “The Totalitarian Criticism of Liberal Democracy,” 1954 Lewis, John D., “The Case for Liberal Democracy,” 1954 Wolin, Sheldon S., “Jefferson and the Democratic Tradition,” 1951 Langeler, George, “Discussion of the Impact of the Vietnam War on Oberlin Student Life and the College as an Institution,” Oberlin Alumni symposium on Oberlin College and the Vietnam War, March 28, 1988 Longsworth, Robert, “Geoffrey Blodgett: In Celebration of His Friendship,” April 15, 2000 Suny, Ronald Grigor “The End of History: Views of a Tenured Radical,” University of Michigan, Commencement address, May 5, 1990 “Utopia and its Discontents: The Soviet Experience and the Fate of Socialism,” Oberlin College, April 15, 1993

Subgroup VI. Research Files, 1828-2010 (span) (17.33 l.f.)

Series 1. Architecture, 1840-2010 (span) (3.3 l.f.)

Subseries 1. General, 1840-1997 (span) (0.35 l.f.)

Box 1 Brown, William Hoskins, 1939, 1975-76, 1982, n.d. (See also Brown Papers, 30/152) Cleveland quarries, 1958, n.d. Gilbert, Cass (See also Series 4) Grace Memorial Episcopal Church, 1995, n.d. (See also SG X, Series 3) Miscellaneous sources, 1989, n.d.

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Subgroup VI. Research Files (cont.) Series 1. Architecture (cont.) Subseries 1. General (cont.)

Box 1 (cont.) Johnson, Philip and Homer Correspondence, 1983-88, 1990, n.d. Primary sources, 1885, 1908, 1940, 1949, 1960, 1992, n.d. Research notes, 1984, 1987, n.d. Secondary sources, 1931-33, 1936-37, 1939, 1977, 1980, 1983-87, 1989, 1991, 1993, 1996 (2f) Ohio houses, not Oberlin Laundon (Bean) Mansion, Elyria, OH, 1975-76, n.d. Miscellaneous, 1939, 1950, 1970-71, n.d. Olmsted, Frederick Law General, 1967-68, 1976-78, 1982, 1984, 1988, 1995, 1997, n.d. Albany State Capitol Building, 1840-50, 1859, 1868, 1875-81, 1885, 1913, 1939, 1961, 1966, 1973-74, 1977-78, 1980, n.d. (4f) White, Stanford—book review, 1990

Subseries 2. Oberlin College, 1841-2009 (span) (1.3 l.f.)

Box 1 (cont.) Allen Memorial Art Museum Printed matter, 1915, 1918, 1941, 1976, 1985, 1987, 1990-91, 1997, 1999, n.d. Finney Chapel—Archival material and secondary sources, 1886, 1900-01, 1904-08, 1916, 1919, 1954, 1976, 1992, 1999, n.d.

Box 2 Oberlin College architecture (general), 1903, 1982-86, 2000, n.d. Allen Memorial Art Museum (cont.) General, 1947, 1988-89, n.d. Manuscript sources and notes, 1914, 1934, n.d. Venturi Wing, 1937, 1960s-70s, 1983, n.d. (2f) Allen Memorial Hospital, 1901, 1915-17, 1922-23, 1927-28, 1976, 1980, 1982, 1998, n.d. Art department domes, 1971 Baldwin Cottage, 1886-87, 1890, 1935, 1974-75, 1983, n.d. (see SG X for photographs taken before interior renovation) Building sketches: Carnegie Library, Finney Chapel, Peters Hall, Severance Hall, Wetervelt Hall, 1973-74 Campus plans – Orr, Dober, 1957-59, 1973, n.d.

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Subgroup VI. Research Files (cont.) Series 1. Architecture (cont.) Subseries 2. Oberlin College (cont.)

Box 2 (cont.) Carnegie Library, 1906, 1908, 1921, 1941, 1973, 1975, 1983-84, 1987, 1998, n.d. (student paper restricted from copying) Chinese Temple, 1984, n.d. (student paper restricted from copying) Conservatory – old and new, 1959-60, 1963-64, 1975, 1979, 1982-83, 1998, n.d. Conservatory – student papers, 1975, 1979, 1987 (student papers restricted from copying) Dormitories, post-1950, 1953, 1956, 1983, 1994, n.d. Environmental Studies Center, 1998-2000 Finney Chapel (cont.) Archival material and secondary sources (copies), 1886, 1900, 1904-08, 1916, 1919, 1922, 1924, 1954, 1992, 1999, n.d. Finney Chapel Renovation Project, 1974, 1992, 1995, 1999 Notes, 2000, n.d. (See also SG III. Series 2, Finney Chapel Rose Window Project) First Church Correspondence, 1972, 1975, 1978, 1982, 1993, 1999, n.d. Ephemera, postcards, writings by Blodgett, 1976, 1982, n.d. Primary sources (copies), 1841, 1844, 1864, 1882, 1959, 1985 Secondary sources, 1842, 1860, 1890, 1917, 1940,1961, 1970, 1976, 1983-84, 1988, 1997, 2009 Research notes, n.d. First Ladies Hall, 1929, 1972, 1983, n.d. Graduate School of Theology Complex, 1919-20, 1924, 1929-31, 1955, 1977-79, 1983, 1987, 1994, 1996, n.d. (student paper restricted from copying) Hales Gym, 1937, 1958, 1980, 1982, n.d. Hall Auditorium General, 1941, 1953-54, 1982-83, 1995, n.d. Miscellaneous, 1984, 1986 Primary sources, 1905, 1915-16, 1918, 1920-21, 1925, 1929-30, 1933, 1935-37, 1939, 1942, 1946-53, 1959-60, 1963, 1986, n.d. (2f) Annals of the Auditorium, A Confidential Memorandum for the Board of Trustees of Oberlin College, July 1942 Annals of the Auditorium: Continuation for the period July 30, 1942 to August 31, 1946

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Subgroup VI. Research Files (cont.) Series 1. Architecture (cont.) Subseries 2. Oberlin College (cont.)

Box 2 (cont.) Hall Auditorium (cont.) Research notes, n.d. Secondary sources, 1906, 1957, 1960, 1978, ca. 1982, 1984 Keep Cottage, 1964, n.d. Kettering Hall of Science (1961), ca. 1961, 1981, 1983, n.d. (student paper restricted from copying) King Building, 1957, 1959, 1977, 1983, n.d. Memorial Arch, 1887-88, 1890, 1902, 1921, 1943, 1976-77, 1983, 1990- 95, n.d. Mudd Learning Center, 1969, 1971, 1974-75, 1981-83 (student papers restricted from copying) Noah Hall, 1932, 1978-79, 1983, n.d. Oberlin College Cass Gilbert buildings, 1915-16, 1924-25, 1930 (restricted from copying) President King and Cass Gilbert, ca. 1982 (See SG VII, Series 1, Subseries 3) Oberlin College rental properties, ca. 1970 Oberlin Inn (second, 1955), 1954-55, 1967, 1971, 1976, 1980, 1982-83, 1988, n.d. Peters Hall General, 1887, 1920-21, 1927, 1929, 1992-97 Architects’ report for renovation, 1993 Correspondence, 1993, 1996-97 Ephemera, 1997-98 Primary sources, 1887, 1925 Research notes, 1997, n.d. Writings, 1973, 1989, 1993, 1997 (student paper restricted from copying) Philips Gym, 1937, 1955, 1967, 1970, 1982-83, n.d. (student paper restricted from copying) Plum Creek, 1977, 1979 Rice Hall (1910), 1978, 1981, 1983, n.d. (student paper restricted from copying) Science Center, 1999, n.d. Severance Laboratory, 1921, 1973, 1975-76, 1983 Talcott Hall, 1885-86, 1888, 1974, 1978, 1985-87, 1991, 1997, n.d. (student paper restricted from copying) Tappan Square General, 1908, 1968, 1974, 1982, 1994

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Subgroup VI. Research Files (cont.) Series 1. Architecture (cont.) Subseries 2. Oberlin College (cont.)

Box 2 (cont.) Tappan Square (cont.) Bandstand Project, 1984-85, 1987 Charles Martin Hall plaque, 2008 Ecology and geology, 1970, 1985 (student paper restricted from copying) Farrand, Beatrix, 1970-71, ca. 1995 Trees and rocks, 1943, 1965, 1967, 1971, 1978, 1980, 1983, 1985, 1992, 1997, n.d. Tappan walks and the Olmsted Brothers, 1903, 1907, 1913, 1987, 1993 War surplus buildings, 1980, 1983, n.d. Warner Gymnasium, 1901, 1905, 1911, 1914, 1920-21, 1969-70, 1975-76, 1978, 1983, 1993, n.d. Wilder Hall (1911), 1956, 1977, 1983, 1988, 1998, n.d. Wright Physics Lab, 1940-41, 1980-83, n.d. (student paper restricted from copying) Yellin, Samuel (metalworker), 1923, 1927, 1934, 1941, 1971, 1982, 1985, 1988, 1990-92, n.d.

Subseries 3. Oberlin (City), 1851-2010 (span) (1.65 l.f.)

Box 3 Houses/Structures Artino Street Gilford Instruments, 1979, 1983, n.d. Cedar Street - general (formerly West St.), 1972, 1986, 1989, n.d. Cedar Street, North 51 – Williams House, 1972-73, 1983, n.d. Cedar Street, South 21 – First Hospital or Dicenzo House, 1956, 1982-83, n.d. College Street, East 19 – Apollo Theater, 1979, 1982-83, 1992, 1997, n.d. (2f) (student paper restricted from copying) 49 – Dr. Homer Johnson House, ca. 1914, 1973, 1983, 1986, n.d. 58 – Mallory House, 1971, 1976, 1983, 1986, 1991, n.d. 63 – Birge House, 1976, n.d. 64 – Hall House, 1936, 1960, 1972, 1976-77, 1983, 1985-86, 1997, n.d. 97 – Godley House, 1977, 1983, n.d. 110 – Tank Hall, 1977, 1983, 1986-88, 1993, n.d.

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Subgroup VI. Research Files (cont.) Series 1. Architecture (cont.) Subseries 3. Oberlin (City) (cont.)

Box 3 (cont.) College Street, East (cont.) 124 – School of Commerce, ca. 1925, 1973, 1975-76, 1983, n.d. 152 – Thad Rowland House, ca. 1925, 1978, 1983, 1994, n.d. 174 – Andrews House, 1966, 1971, 1973, 1976, 1983, n.d. 207 – Langston House, 1973, 1976, 1978, 1983, 1998, n.d. 228 – Stevens-Wood House, 1881, 1973, 1976, 1983, n.d. 240 – Johnson House, 1974, 1983, n.d. 317 – Burrell-King House, 1900, 1927, 1956, 1969, 1971-72, 1976, 1978-79, 1983, 1994, n.d. 335 – Williams-Ward House, 1909-10, ca. 1920, 1977-78, 1983, 1987, n.d. 420 – Clark-Steele House, 1970-71, 1973, 1976, 1983, n.d. (student paper restricted from copying) 525 – F.A. Hart House, 1971, 1973, 1983, n.d. College Street, West General, 1972, 1992, n.d. College and Main Street - Carpenter Block, 1974-75, 1983, n.d. 23 – Gibson’s Bakery, 1982-83, n.d. 37 – Co-op Bookstore, 1975, 1979, 1988, 1993, n.d. 135 – Lauderleigh Hall, 1976-77, 1983, n.d. (student paper restricted from copying) 186 – (no name), n.d. 199 – Deacon Thompson House, 1973, 1983, n.d. 209 – Lyman Hall House, 1918, 1972-73, 1983, n.d. 214 – Lang House, ca. 1928, 1973, 1976, 1983, 1990, n.d. 237 – Drake-May House, 1959, 1976-78, 1983, 1985, n.d. 265 – Carl Kinney House, 1983, 1990, n.d. 292 – Goss House, 1947, 1973, 1983, n.d. Edgemeer Place General, n.d. 373 – Cerf House, 1979, 1983, n.d. Elm Street General, 1999, n.d. 137 – Mead House, 1978, 1983, n.d. 140 – Durand House, 1973, 1976, 1983, n.d. 145 – Wright House, 1932, 1973, 1983, 1990, n.d. 155 – Rice-Moore House, 1973, 1983, n.d. 171 – Ganzel House, 1973, 1975, 1983, n.d. 172 – Friebert House, 1973, 1983, n.d.

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Subgroup VI. Research Files (cont.) Series 1. Architecture (cont.) Subseries 3. Oberlin (City) (cont.)

Box 3 (cont.) Elm Street (cont.) 190 – Leslie House, 1973-74, 1983, n.d. 221 – Hobbs House, 1976, n.d. 279 – Sweet House, 1972, 1975-76, 1983, n.d. 280 – Hall Sisters House, 1979, 1985, n.d. 290 – Morrison House, ca. 1920s, 1975-76, 1983, n.d. 291 – Doolittle-Fletcher House, 1976, 1983, n.d. Forest Street General, 1978, 1994, n.d. 111 – Scott-Tower House, 1973, 1976, 1983, n.d. 123 - A.A. Wright–L.W. Taylor House, 1945-46, 1976, 1983, 1994, n.d. 144 - (no name), 1976, n.d. 154 - President’s House, ca. 1920, 1954, 1978-79, 1983, n.d. 171 - Fowler House, 1972, 1976, 1978, n.d. 181 - Arnold House, 1974-76, 1983, n.d. 195 - Andrews House, 1977, 1983, n.d. 251 - Andrus-Nord House, 1976, 1978, 1983, n.d. 281 - Wm. Mosher House (Buell), 1977-78, 1983, n.d. 291 - Spear House (Dr. Moulton), 1978-80, n.d. Groveland Street General, 1995, n.d. 30 – Colburn House, 1916, 1977-78, 1983, 1990, n.d. 30-32 – (no name), n.d. 131 – Hallauer House, 1972, 1976, 1983, 1985, n.d. Locust Street 61 - (no name), n.d. Lorain Street, East General, 1978, n.d. 181 – Bardwell House, 1853, 1914, 1972-73, 1976, 1978-79, 1981, 1988, 1994, n.d. Lorain Street, West General, 1966, 1972, n.d. 145 – Gager-Daub House, ca. 1928, 1972-73, 1976, 1983, 1987, n.d. Student paper on Gager-Daub House, 1959 (restricted from copying) 197 – Wright House, 1972, 1983, n.d. 280 – Farnsworth House, ca. 1928, 1972, n.d.

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Subgroup VI. Research Files (cont.) Series 1. Architecture (cont.) Subseries 3. Oberlin (City) (cont.)

Box 3 (cont.) Main Street, North General, 1975, n.d. Public High and Middle Schools, n.d. Main Street, South General, 1910, 1959, 1979, 1985, n.d. Bank Block, 1884, 1972, 1974-75, 1983, n.d. 36 – (no name), 1984, n.d. 68 – Post Office, 1977, 1979-80, 1983, n.d. (student paper restricted from copying) 90 – gas station, 1979, 1981, 1983, n.d. 117 – McWade House, 1973, 1983, 1998, n.d. 138 – John Frederick Oberlin Apartments, 1976, 1983, n.d. 162 – Christ Church, 1901, ca. 1928, 1972, 1976, 1980 Student paper on Christ Church, 1985, n.d. (restricted from copying) 430 – Fire Station, 1976, 1979, 1981, 1983, n.d. (student paper restricted from copying) 855 – New City Hall, 1983, 1987, n.d. Oberlin Gas Works, 1925, 1976, 1983, 1990, 1998-99, n.d. (student paper restricted from copying) Gasholder House “Fight” General, 1990-91 Clippings, 1989-90, 1996 Correspondence, 1988, 1990-92 Writings and notes, 1985, 1990, n.d. Morgan Street General, 1977, n.d. 167 – Grandison Cottage, 1975, 1983, n.d. 344 – Thibo House, n.d. 396 – Paul Arnold House, 1949, 1983, n.d. 532 – Frank Lloyd Wright House, 1951, 1972, 1981-82, 1984-85, 1992-93, n.d. Oak Street 222 – (no name), 1960, 1972, 1975, 1979, 1982, n.d. (student paper restricted from copying) 228 – Danforth Cottage and general, 1973, 1983, n.d. Park Street 42 – Stone House, 1953, 1973, 1983, n.d.

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Subgroup VI. Research Files (cont.) Series 1. Architecture (cont.) Subseries 3. Oberlin (City) (cont.)

Box 3 (cont.) Pleasant Street General, n.d. Pleasant Street, North 38 – Howard Apartments, 1977-78, 1983, n.d. 169 – Teachout House, 1973, 1983, n.d. 211 – Gingerbread House, 1973, 1983, n.d. Professor Street, North General, n.d. 157 – Artz House, 1940, 1978-79, 1983, n.d. Professor Street, South General, 1971, n.d. 68 – Severance House, 1889, 1891-92, 1895, 1911, 1960, 1976, 1983, 1995, n.d. 73 – Jewett-Hubbard House, 1973, 1976-77, 1979-80, 1983, n.d. 78 – Monroe-Bosworth House, ca. 1851, 1899, 1973, 1976, 1983, n.d. 81 – James Brand House, 1888, 1999, n.d. 134 – Allencroft, 1973, 1983, 1986-88, n.d. Student paper, 1988 (restricted from copying) 156 – Wheat-Snyder House, 1972, n.d. 159 – Shurtleff Cottage, 1972, 1974, 1976, 1990, 1992-94, n.d. 195 – Capt. Finley House, 1976, 1978, 1983, 1992, n.d. 207 – Old Barrows, 1902, 1959, 1963, 1975-76, 1983, 1993, n.d. 216 – Johnson House, 1930, 1936, 1939, 1941, 1954, 1970, 1973- 77, 1980, 1997, n.d. Student papers on Johnson House, 1971, 1982 (restricted from copying) 227 – Dascomb-Taylor House, 1863, 1952, 1973, 1977-78, n.d. Student paper on the Dascomb-Taylor House, 1971 (restricted from copying) 321 and 288 – Knepper House and Kenaston House, 1972, n.d. Conservatory parking lot Original Schoolhouse, 1928, 1931, 1958-59, 1978, 1982, n.d. Monroe House, 1960, 1973, 1979, 1982-83, n.d. Prospect Street General, n.d. Prospect Street, South 10 – Kenney House, 1972, 1975-76, 1983, n.d.

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Subgroup VI. Research Files (cont.) Series 1. Architecture (cont.) Subseries 3. Oberlin (City) (cont.)

Box 3 (cont.) Prospect Street, South (cont.) 158 – Seaman-Tower House, 1935, ca. 1939, 1978-79, 1983, 1996, n.d. (student paper restricted from copying) 164 – Kennedy House, 1939, n.d.

Box 4 Reamer Place Reamer Place and Daniel A. Reamer, 1906, 1908, 1927, 1977, 1979, 1982, 1984, 1994, n.d. 310 – C.W. Savage House, 1977-78, 1983, n.d. 318 – Kemper Fullerton House, 1918, 1921, 1927, 1931, 1933, 1941, 1977, 1983, 1990, n.d. 319 – Carruthers-Simpson House, 1979, 1982-84, 1988, n.d. 336 – Fiske House, 1977-78, n.d. 378 – Rogers House, n.d. Route 10 East Henderson-Livingston House, 1958, 1978-79, n.d. Route 10 West Dudley Farm, 1973, 1976, 1983, n.d. Reamer-Dudley Barn, 1961, 1975-77, 1983, 1998, n.d. (student paper restricted from copying) Shipherd Circle (College Park), 1982-83, n.d. South Street Railroad Depot, 1940, 1973, 1978, 1983 Spring Street—general, n.d. Vine Street - general and Mill, n.d. Vine Street, East 33 – W.B. Evans House, 1975, 1980, 1983, 1997-98, n.d. 43 – Wack-Dietz House, 1892-93, 1947, 1968, 1972, 1980, 1983-84, 1992, n.d. Woodland Street General, n.d. 142 – 1980-81, 1983, n.d. Civil War Memorial, 1980, 1982-83, 1997-98, n.d. Historical landmarks, 1975, 2010 Oberlin-Wellington Rescue Monument, 1990, n.d. Ratner, Max, architect, n.d.

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Subgroup VI. Research Files (cont.) Series 1. Architecture (cont.) Subseries 3. Oberlin (City) (cont.)

Box 4 (cont.) Waterworks, 1917, 1971, 1975, 1977, 1983, n.d. (student paper restricted from copying) Westervelt Hall (college, then city building) General, 1884, 1973, 1975-76, 1978, 1982-83, 1995-96, n.d. Archival materials, 1873, 1926, 1940, 1947, 1960, 1969, 1971, 1973, 1975-76, n.d. Clippings, 1976-77, 1981-84, 1995-96, n.d. Westwood Cemetery, 1901, 1975, 1982-83, n.d. (2f) Student paper on Westwood Cemetery, n.d. (student paper restricted from copying)

Series 2. Oberlin History, 1833-2000 (span) (2.5 l.f.)

Box 1 Biographical Files Artz, Frederick B., 1910s, 1941-42, 1964-68, 1970, 1978, 1983, 1998-99, n.d. Blackwell, Alice Stone Diary, 1966-67, 1971-72, 1981, n.d. General research, 1963-64, n.d. Bongiorno, Andrew, 1967, 1971, 1996, 1998-99 Brown, John (and Oberlin), 1859, 1932, 1972-73, 1975, 1982, n.d. Carlson, Ellsworth Clayton, 1939, 1957, 1962, 1970-75, 1999-2000, n.d. Carr, President Robert K. Speeches and articles, 1948, 1950, 1967, 1969, n.d. Correspondence re: Robert K. Carr Papers, 1973-74, n.d. Memorial Minute, 1967-69, 1979, n.d. Danenberg, President Emil C., memorial, 1981-82, 1994, n.d. Dye, President Nancy S., 1994, 1996-2000, n.d. Fairchild, James Harris – historical memoir, 1906, 1979, 1993 Finney, President Charles Grandison “Finney’s Oberlin” (talk), 1975, n.d. “Father Finney’s Church” (article), 1984, 1994-95 Fletcher, Marjorie, n.d. Fountain, Robert, 1953, 1965, 1969-72, 1981, 1996, 1999 Fuller, President Robert W., inauguration, 1970, 1980 Griswold, Erwin N., Papers, Oberlin College Archives, 1940, 1942-43, 1945-46, 1948-50, 1952, 1956-65, 1967-75, 1983, 1991, n.d. (4f)

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Subgroup VI. Research Files (cont.) Series 2. Oberlin History (cont.)

Box 1 (cont.) Biographical Files (cont.) Hall, Charles Martin, 1977, 1979, 1986, 1988, 1997, n.d. (See also Craig, Norman, in SG V and SG VII) Jaszi, Oscar, 1929, 1931, 1938, 1957, 1970, n.d. King, President Henry Churchill, 1914, 1916-17, 1927-28, 1930, 1933 Langston, John Mercer, 1982 Langston, John Mercer and Mary Edmonia Lewis For “John Mercer Langston and the Scandal of Edmonia Lewis: Oberlin, 1862,” correspondence and sources, 1892, 1936, 1968-70, 1981, 1984, 1991-95, n.d. LeDuc, Thomas H., 1976, 1979 Lewis, Mary Edmonia Correspondence, notes, programs, 1967-68, 1994, 1997-98, n.d. Primary sources, 1860, 1862-63, 1871, 1913 Secondary sources, 1862, 1865-66, 1876, 1901, 1907, 1909, 1943, 1966, 1968, 1982, 1993-95, n.d. (student paper restricted from copying) Writings by Blodgett, 1968, 1970 (duplicates in SG VII, Series 1, Subseries 3) (See also Langston, John Mercer and Mary Edmonia Lewis) McGill, Barry Articles, course materials, notes, 1959, 1962-64, 1974, 1996-97, n.d. Correspondence, 1960s-96, n.d. Myers, Marjorie, 1940-42, 1997 Neil, Robert Elgy, 1955, 1964-65, 1991 Rauschenbusch, Winifred, 1915-18, 1922, 1928, 1936, 1941-43, 1948, 1954, 1977, 1979, 1980, 1988, 1997, 2000, n.d. (3f) Schlesinger, Alfred Cary – Memorial Minute by Nate Greenberg, December 1993 Simpson, George, 1978, 1981, 1998-99, n.d. Singleton, Ralph, 1936, 1944, 1955-58, 1962, 1965, 1999, n.d. Soucy, Robert J., ca. 1998, n.d. Starr, President Frederick S. and his presidency, 1982-89, 1991, 1993, 1995, n.d. Stechow, Wolfgang, 1945, 1953-54, 1960, 1962-63, 1967, 1971-75, 1999 Stetson, Raymond Herbert (transcriptions of letters), 1929, 1931-50, n.d. Stevenson, President William E. Memorial Minute, 1943, 1952, 1959, 1985-87 Memoir, 1958, 1979, n.d.

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Subgroup VI. Research Files (cont.) Series 2. Oberlin History (cont.)

Box 1 (cont.) Biographical Files (cont.) Thomas, William Isaac, 1894, 1896, 1918, 1933, 1966, 1973, 1980, 1992, n.d. Tower, “Bill” Lewis R. (Business Manager), 1967, 1979, 1989, 1993, n.d. Wilkins, President Ernest Hatch, 1991 Zimmerman, Joan, 1937, 1992 Topical Files Oberlin History—General Primary sources (copies), 1855-1991 (span) (2f)

Box 2 Secondary sources, 1882-1994 (span), n.d. (4f) Admissions Gender ratios, 1923, 1988, 1993, 1995, 1999 Policy, 1972 Alumni Association, history of (See Thelen, Jennifer, in SG VII. Series 2. Subseries 1. Manuscripts) “An Apology for the 1950s,” for Oberlin Alumni Magazine, 1967, 1969-71, 1975, 1980-82, n.d. (student paper restricted from copying) Anti-Slavery “Funeral of Fugitive Child at Oberlin,” transcribed from the Oberlin Times, in National Anti-Slavery Standard, April 21, 1853 “Oberlin Slave Refuge,” Oberlin, Ohio, July 18, n.d. (from the Koopman Collection, John Hay Library, Brown University) Athletic policy, 1954, 1957, 1968, 1973, 1978, 1996, 1992, 1994 Black education, co-education, 1971, 1993 Christian Sociology Conference in 1895; 1895, 1996 Class reunion talks, research and correspondence, 1936, ca. 1938, 1940-42, 1991-92, 1997, n.d. (See also SG V. Talks) Coeducation General, 1890, 1927, 1937, 1972-73, 1980, 1982-83, 1993-94, 1999, n.d. Lasser, Carol and Kathie Linehan, “For Coeducation We’ve Come: Five Alumnae Look Back,” n.d. (restricted from copying) Co-ops, history, 1976, 1984 Conservatory of Music, 1923, 1937, 1956, 1967

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Subgroup VI. Research Files (cont.) Series 2. Oberlin History (cont.)

Box 2 (cont.) Topical Files (cont.) Financial aid, history, 1993 Football, history Correspondence, 1991-92, 1996, 1999-2000, n.d. Notes, 1988, n.d. Sources, 1887, 1891-93, 1895, 1921-22, 1925, 1937, 1941, 1947, 1951, 1972, 1978-79, 1991-92, 2000, n.d. Writings, 1992, 1999, n.d. (student paper restricted from copying) (See also SG III, Series 2) Hayes, President Rutherford B., for “Creating a home at Spiegal Grove,” 1860, 1873, 1880, 1909, 1914, 1975, 1990 Homosexuality, 1994, n.d. Investment in South Africa, 1978-79, 1985, 1992, n.d. Lorain County, early settlement of, 1974, n.d. Memoirs of and articles about Oberlin people, 1918, 1934, 1944, 1947-49, 1952-53, 1959, 1964, 1996, 1998, n.d. Mock Convention, 1956, n.d. Nepotism, 1940, 1970, 1994 “Oberlin and the G.I. Bill,” Oberlin Alumni Magazine, Spring 1987 Correspondence, 1986-87, n.d. Manuscript drafts and other materials, 1946, 1948, 1987, 1989, n.d. Notes on veterans, 1987 Rosters of matriculated veterans, 1947-50 Oberlin City Directories (copies), 1835, 1840, 1845-46, 1859-60, 1873-74, 1877, 1883, 1888, 1894, 1902, 1908, 1910, 1916, 1929-30, 1933- 34, 1939-40, 1956 (2f) Oberlin College’s institutional involvement in social issues Notes, sources, 1938, 1952, 1966, 1988, n.d. Writings Bigglestone, William E., untitled, November 1968 Blodgett, Geoffrey, “College and Commitment: A Glance at the Past,” for a conference organized by the Committee on Social and Political Concerns, 1969 Unknown, on the Anti-Saloon League, n.d. Race in Oberlin, 1853-1998 (span) (2f) (manuscripts restricted from copying) Racial tensions on campus, 1988-89 (See also SG VII, Series 1, Subseries 1, “The Zipper in the Rainbow: Racism Stirs the Campus,” ca. 1988-89)

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Subgroup VI. Research Files (cont.) Series 2. Oberlin History (cont.)

Box 2 (cont.) Topical Files (cont.) Satire—“Ham-a-Lot” play, and faux Oberlin College Bulletin, 1972-73 (play restricted from copying) Science and medicine at Oberlin, 1847, 1922, 1937, 1955,1976, 1981, 1983, 1995-99, n.d. (See also Craig, Norman, in SG V, Series 2) Student unrest in the 1960s; 1983, 1989-90, n.d. Teaching of History at Oberlin—early documents, 1833, 1835, 1844, 1985 The Town that Started the Civil War, by Nat Brandt, 1990, n.d. (See also SG V. Series 1. Talks) V-12 Marine Veterans Reunion and research, Oberlin College, 1990 Sources and talk notes, 1943-45, 1948, 1990, n.d. Veteran responses to questionnaire, 1990 Vietnam War and Oberlin College Correspondence, college reports, clippings, 1966-70, 1984, n.d. (See also SG V. Series 2, Langeler, George) Orloff, Rich—play, “Days of Possibilities,” n.d. (restricted from copying) Phillips, Susan—student paper, “The Tumultuous Sixties: SDS and Oberlin College,” 1976 (restricted from copying)

Series 3. Other Historical Research, 1828-2001 (span) (1.0 l.f.)

See SG VIII, Series 2, Box 2 Blackwell, Alice Stone Microfilm copy of the Alice Stone Blackwell Diary, Blackwell Family Papers, Library of Congress, 1872-74 (restricted from copying)

Box 1 Churchill, Winston, 1900, 1940, 1947, n.d. Civil War Upton, Ed (46th Ohio Infantry, Union Army), correspondence (facsimiles), 1864-65 (restricted from copying) Claflin, Tennessee Celeste, 1870-72, 1923, 1991-92, n.d. Cleveland, Frances Folsom, n.d. Cleveland, President Grover, 1888, 1892-93, 1907, 1910-11, 1922-24, 1932, 1957, 1962-63, 1968, 1971-73, 1976, 1978, 1980, n.d. (3f)

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Subgroup VI. Research Files (cont.) Series 3. Other Historical Research (cont.)

Box 1 (cont.) Cleveland, President Grover, “Ethno-cultural Realities in Presidential Patronage: Grover Cleveland’s Choices,” for New York History, 1999 Gronlund, Lawrence, 1899, 1909, 1932, ca. 1995 Hayes, President Rutherford B., for “Creating a Home at Spiegel Grove,” 1860, 1873, 1880, 1909, 1914, 1975, 1990 Kennedy, President John F., 1962-64, 1969, 1973, 1983, 1985, 1988-89, 1995, n.d. Macaulay, Thomas Babington, 1828 Maguire, Patrick, 1896, 1992-93, n.d. Matthews, Nathan Jr., 1927, 1977, ca. 1995, n.d. Miller, Herbert Adolphus, 1916, 1918-19, 1922, 1931-33, 1947, 1951, n.d. Mississippi River region history, 1914, 1943, 1996, 1999, n.d. (See also SG V. Talks)

Box 2 Moses, George Higgins, 1868, 1902, 1904-05, 1912, 1915, 1937, 1972, ca. 1993, n.d. Philadelphia Exposition, 1876; n.d. Quincy, Josiah, correspondence and clippings regarding, 1919, 1959-69, n.d. Robinson, Harriet Jane Hanson, n.d. Schlesinger, Arthur Jr., 1958, 1961, n.d. Shaw, Pauline Agassiz, 1964, n.d. Sumner, William Graham, n.d. Tarbell, Ida Minerva, 1898, 1910-12, 1924, 1927-28, 1932, 1935-36, 1938, n.d. (Copies from the Ida M. Tarbell Collection; restricted from copying) The Ulysses S. Grant Association re: The Jacob Dolson Cox Papers, Oberlin College Archives, 1965, 1967 Wells, Kate Gannett, 1963, n.d. Williams, George Fred Albania (1914), 1906, 1914, 1919, 1932, 1954, 1976, 1990, 1994, 1999, n.d. Clippings, notes, 1913-14, 1943, 1978, 1995, n.d. Diary and transcription, 1895, n.d. (Copies of the diary from the collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society; restricted from copying)

Box 3 Winton, Alexander, 1895-99, 1933, 1900s-1950, 1970, 1982, 1986, 1993, 1997 -98, n.d. (4f) (cont.)

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Subgroup VI. Research Files (cont.) Series 3. Other Historical Research (cont.)

Box 2 (cont.) Women’s Colleges, Woodhull, Victoria, 1870, 1967, 1974, 1983, 1996, n.d. World War II Typescript account of the liberation of Camp Pangatian in the Philippines, 1945 Letter by Kevney O’Connor, 2001

Series 4. Cass Gilbert, Architect (original order) (4.15 l.f.) (Unprocessed; see separate inventory in case file)

Series 5. Card Files (original order) (6.38 l.f.) (Unprocessed; see separate inventory in case file)

Subgroup VII. Writings, 1856-2008 (span) (3.8 l.f.)

Series 1. Writings by Blodgett 1950, 1958-95, 1997-2003, n.d. (2.6 l.f.)

Subseries 1. Manuscripts, ca. 1950, 1960, 1968-69, 1970-74, 1976-77, 1980-86, 1988-89, 1990-1995, ca. 1997, 1999-2000, 2003 (0.8 l.f.) (RESTRICTED FROM COPYING)

Box 1 American History “The Emergence of Grover Cleveland: A Fresh Appraisal,” for New York History, ca. 1992 Entries for American Biographical Encyclopedia (1972) Atkinson, Edward, 1972 Curtis, George William, 1972 Sumner, William Graham, 1971 Entries for American National Biography, ca. 1992-95 Claflin, Tennessee Celeste Gronland, Lawrence Maguire, Patrick Matthews, Nathan Jr. Moses, George Higgins Entries for Dictionary of American Biography Churchill, Winston, 1973

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Subgroup VII. Writings (cont.) Series 1. Writings by Blodgett (cont.) Subseries 1. Manuscripts (cont.)

Box 1 (cont.) American History (cont.) Entries for Dictionary of American Biography (cont.) Hughes, Charles Evans, 1973 Tarbell, Ida Minerva, ca. 1969 Entries for Notable American Women, 1607-1950 (1971) Robinson, Harriet Jane Hanson, n.d. Wells, Kate Gannett, n.d. Woodhull, Victoria and Tennessee Claflin, n.d. “Ethno-cultural Realities in Presidential Patronage: Grover Cleveland’s Choices,” for New York History, April 23, 1999 Grover Cleveland biography manuscript, ca. 1981 Grover Cleveland entry for Leaders of the World (Gale Research, Inc., 1994), ca. 1991 “Henry George and Utopia,” for American Reform and Reformers: A Biographical Dictionary (Greenwood Press, 1996), 1994 “A New Look at the American Gilded Age,” for Historical Reflections, 1974 “Overtaken by Events: Understanding Hitler’s Germany” (on Karl Geiser), ca. 1997 “Pauline Agassiz Shaw,” n.d. “Political Reform in the Gilded Age,” for the Encyclopedia of the United States in the 19th Century (Scribner’s, 2000) “The Reaction of the Boston Democracy to Populism,” student paper for History 262, Oberlin College, ca. 1950 “Victoria Woodhull: The Feminist with Something Extra,” for TV Guide, 1974 “Winston Churchill: The Novelist as Reformer,” for the New England Quarterly, 1973 “Yankee Leadership in a Divided City, 1860-1910,” April 1980

Box 2 “Massachusetts Democrats in the Cleveland Era,” Harvard University, Ph.D. thesis, May 1960 (See also published book in Subseries 4)

Box 1 (cont.) Architecture Compiled essays on historic Oberlin structures, 1973 “Cass Gilbert, Architect: Conservative at Bay,” April 1985 (original ms. and edited copy for Journal of American History)

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Subgroup VII. Writings (cont.) Series 1. Writings by Blodgett (cont.) Subseries 1. Manuscripts (cont.)

Box 1 (cont.) Architecture (cont.) “Cass Gilbert and the Politics of Architecture,” December 1983 “Cass Gilbert and the Politics of Public Architecture,” book chapter and footnotes, 1999 “Finney Chapel,” October 1983 “His Son the Architect: Homer Johnson and Philip Johnson, an Ohio Story,” April 1984; July 1985; February 1986 (3f)

Box 3 “King and his Campus,” January 1982 Oberlin College “Alice Stone Blackwell,” n.d. Biographical sketches of six faculty, 1999 “Campus Life at Oberlin from Depression to War,” July 1997 “Challenge and Response, or the Day the Yeomen Crushed the Lords,” March 1968 “College and Commitment: A Glance at the Past,” in The College and the War (unpublished booklet), Oberlin College, February 1969 “The Completion of Finney Chapel” (for the Oberlin Alumni Magazine), August 1982 (See also SG VII. Series 1. Subseries 3.) “Father Finney and His Church,” “Father Finney and Oberlin’s First Church,” September 3, 1994; April 9, 1995; published in Oberlin History, Essays and Impressions (Kent State University Press, 2006) “The Grand March of Oberlin Campus Plans,” March 1995, rev. January 2000 (published in Oberlin History, Essays and Impressions, Kent State University Press, 2006) “Oberlin Debates Darwin,” for Oberlin Alumni Magazine, December 7, 1998 “Oberlin History: Essays and Impressions,” original and revised manuscript on zip disk, March 12, 2003 (published by Kent State University Press, 2006) “Recollection of the 1960s—and Beyond,” January 1992 “Student Opinion at Oberlin, 1936-1976: A Report for the Bicentennial,” published in the Oberlin Alumni Magazine, May/June 1976, 23-25. (See Research Files for polls, clippings and correspondence) “Tobacco at Oberlin,” for Oberlin Alumni Magazine, December 26, 1998

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Subgroup VII. Writings (cont.) Series 1. Writings by Blodgett (cont.) Subseries 1. Manuscripts (cont.)

Box 3 (cont.) Oberlin College (cont.) Untitled, on President Robert W. Fuller, March 18, 1977 “What Happened to the Oberlin Mock Convention Tradition?,” October 5, 1992 “The Zipper in the Rainbow: Racism Stirs the Campus,” ca. 1988-89 History Department, Oberlin College “A Short History of the Oberlin History Department, 1887-1970,” 1970 “Oberlin College History Department,” June 1973 “Teaching History at Oberlin,” 1970, 1988, 2000 General “A Mugging in the Park,” June 28, 1974

Subseries 2. Book Reviews and Manuscript Evaluations, 1959-60, 1962-94, 1997, 1999-2000, n.d. (0.2 l.f.)

Box 3 (cont.) Book review manuscripts and correspondence, 1965, 1967-68, 1970-72, 1974, 1977, 1979-87, 1991-93, 1997, n.d. (2f) Printed book reviews, 1959, 1962-69, 1971-73, 1975, 1977-84, 1986-91, 1993, n.d. Evaluations of manuscripts by others for publishers, 1959-60, 1963-67 1970-77, 1979-80, 1988-89, 2000 (2f) “Wildfire: Edmonia Lewis in Two Worlds,” 1994 Evaluation of manuscripts for by colleagues,1884 by Mark Wahlgren Summers, 1999

Subseries 3. Articles, 1947-2001, n.d. (1.0 l.f.) (Date order)

Box 4 “Serious Thoughts on Freedom.” Schenectady Star (Schenectady, NY), Oct. 30, 1947. “Two Request Student Vote on Car Rule.” Oberlin Review (Oberlin, OH), Mar. 25, 1952. “No Room for Thieves in Military Service.” U.S. Naval Training Center (San Diego, CA), Mar. 11, 1955. “The Mind of the Boston Mugwump.” The Mississippi Historical Review 47, no. 4 (Mar. 1962): 614-634.

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Subgroup VII. Writings (cont.) Series 1. Writings by Blodgett (cont.) Subseries 3. Articles (cont.)

Box 4 (cont.) “Recent Developments in History.” Oberlin Alumni Magazine (Nov. 1962): 18-22. “The Dawning World of Claude Bowers.” Indiana Magazine of History 61 (June 1965): 157-170. “Josiah Quincy, Brahmin Democrat.” New England Quarterly 38, no. 4 (Dec. 1965): 435-453. “The Education Program: Present and Future.” Oberlin Alumni Magazine (Jan. 1966): 6-8. “Claude Bowers’ Schoolboy Correspondence to William Everett.” Indiana Magazine of History 63 (Sept. 1967): 207-228. “John Mercer Langston and the Case of Edmonia Lewis: Oberlin, 1862.” The Journal of Negro History 53, no. 3 (Jul. 1968): 201-218. “The College and the War.” Manuscript, Oberlin, OH, 1969. “Reform Thought and the Genteel Tradition.” In The Gilded Age. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1970. “Spiced Wine: An Oberlin Scandal of 1862.” Oberlin Alumni Magazine (Feb. 1970): 5-10. “Blackwell, Alice Stone.” In Notable American Women (1607-1950): A Biographical Dictionary. Cambridge, MA: The Belknap Press of Harvard University, 1971. “Robinson, Harriet Jane Hanson.” In Notable American Women (1607 1950): A Biographical Dictionary. Cambridge, MA: The Belknap Press of Harvard University, 1971. “Shaw, Pauline Agassiz.” In Notable American Women (1607-1950): A Biographical Dictionary. Cambridge, MA: The Belknap Press of Harvard University, 1971. “Wells, Kate Gannett.” In Notable American Women (1607-1950): A Biographical Dictionary. Cambridge, MA: The Belknap Press of Harvard University, 1971. “Woodhull, Victoria Claflin.” In Notable American Women (1607-1950): A Biographical Dictionary. Cambridge, MA: The Belknap Press of Harvard University, 1971. “George Higgins Moses.” In Dictionary of American Biography: Supplement Three. New York: Scribners, 1972. “Ida Tarbell.” In Dictionary of American Biography: Supplement Three. New York: Scribners, 1972. “Myth and Reality in Oberlin History.” Oberlin Alumni Magazine (May/Jun. 1972): 5-10. “Finney Chapel.” Pamphlet, Oberlin, OH, 1973.

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Subgroup VII. Writings (cont.) Series 1. Writings by Blodgett (cont.) Subseries 3. Articles (cont.)

Box 4 (cont.) “The Mind of the Boston Mugwump.” In Political Parties in American History. New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1974. “Atkinson, Edward.” In Encyclopedia of American Biography. New York: Harper & Row, 1974. “Curtis, George William.” In Encyclopedia of American Biography. New York: Harper & Row, 1974. “Sumner, William Graham.” In Encyclopedia of American Biography. New York: Harper & Row, 1974. “Winston Churchill: The Novelist as Reformer.” New England Quarterly 47, no. 4 (Dec. 1974): 495-517. “A New Look at the American Gilded Age.” Historical Reflections 1, no. 2 (1974): 231-246. “Victoria Woodhull: A portrait of America’s most shocking 19th-century feminist.” TV Guide (March 17, 1974): 10-11. “Winston Churchill.” In Dictionary of American Biography: Supplement Four. New York: Scribners, 1975. “Charles Evans Hughes.” In Dictionary of American Biography: Supplement Four. New York: Scribners, 1975. “A New Look at the Gilded Age: Politics in a Cultural Context.” In Victorian America, edited by Daniel Walker Howe, 95-108. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1976 “Finney’s Oberlin.” Oberlin Alumni Magazine (Mar./Apr. 1976): 2-11. “Student Opinion at Oberlin, 1936-1976: a report for the bicentennial.” Oberlin Alumni Magazine (May/Jun. 1976): 23-25. “The Bicentennial and the America Revolution.” Oberlin News-Tribune (Oberlin, OH), June 17, 1976. “Frederick Law Olmsted: Landscape Architecture as Conservative Reform.” The Journal of American History 62, no. 4 (March 1976): 869-889. “The Impulse to Deny: Two Views of the Prohibition Movement.” Reviews in American History (Sept. 1977): 373-378. “Ideology and Political Culture from Jefferson to Nixon.” American Historical Review 82, no. 3 (June 1977): 563-567. “The Jewett House” (pamphlet), Oberlin College, ca. 1977. Oberlin College architecture: a historian’s assessment.” Oberlin Alumni Magazine (May/Jun. 1978): 2-6. “’But mainly we played for the pleasure of it.” Oberlin College Sports Newsletter (May 1978). “He Held His Ground.” Oberlin Alumni Magazine (Spring 1979): 23-26.

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Subgroup VII. Writings (cont.) Series 1. Writings by Blodgett (cont.) Subseries 3. Articles (cont.)

Box 4 (cont.) “Thoughts on Oberlin’s History.” The Observer (Oberlin, OH: Oberlin College), Sept. 20, 1979): 2. “Oberlin College Architecture: A Short History” (pamphlet), Oberlin College, ca. 1979. Historian’s Notebook columns (on Oberlin buildings) in the Oberlin News Tribune (in publication date order), (1972-1983, n.d.).

Box 5 “The Mugwump Reputation, 1870 to the Present.” The Journal of American History 66, no. 4 (Mar. 1980): 867-887. “Landscape Design as Conservative Reform.” In Art of the Olmsted Landscape. New York: The Arts Publisher, Inc. “From the Stone Age to the Space Age.” Western Reserve Magazine (Jan./Feb. 1981): 37-41. “President King & Cass Gilbert: The Grand Collaboration.” The Observer (Oberlin, OH): Oberlin College), February 4, 1982. “King and Gilbert: The Grand Collaboration Continued.” The Observer (Oberlin, OH: Oberlin College), February 18, 1982. “An Apology for the 1950s.” Oberlin Alumni Magazine (Spring 1982): 14-17. “Yankee Leadership in a Divided City: Boston, 1860-1910.” Journal of Urban History 8, no. 4 (Aug. 1982): 371-396. “The Completion of Finney Chapel.” Oberlin Alumni Magazine 78, no. 4 (Autumn 1982): 1-3. “Frederick Law Olmsted: Landscape Architecture as Conservation Reform.” In The American Record: Images of the Nation’s Past, Vol. II, edited by William Graebner and Leonard Richards, New York NY: McGraw Hill, 1982, 34-49. “The Political Leadership of Grover Cleveland,” The South Atlantic Quarterly 82 (1983): 286-299. “Oberlin’s Architectural Hodgepodge.” Design (Feb. 3, 1983): 24-26. “What Was So Important About Carl Schurz.” Reviews in American History (March 1983): 77-81. “Oberlin College: a Historical Sketch” (pamphlet), Oberlin College, ca. 1983. “President King & Cass Gilbert: The Grand Collaboration.” Oberlin Alumni Magazine (Winter 1983): 15-19.

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Subgroup VII. Writings (cont.) Series 1. Writings by Blodgett (cont.) Subseries 3. Articles (cont.)

Box 5 (cont.) “Lieutenant Governor William Dorsheimer and the Politics of Architectural Reform.” In Proceedings of the New York State Capitol Symposium, Published by the Temporary State Commission on the Restorations of the Capitol (1983): 49-61. “The Political Leadership of Grover Cleveland.” The South Atlantic Quarterly 82, no. 3 (Summer 1983): 286-299. “Yankee Leadership in a Divided City: Boston, 1860-1910.” In Boston 1700-1980: The Evolution of Urban Politics, edited by Ronald P. Formisano and Constance K. Burns, 87-110. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1984. “Reformist Zeal Gets Mahan to Oberlin Presidency—Then Costs Him the Job.” Adrian College Bulletin (Winter 1984). “Spreading the Calm.” Oberlin Alumni Magazine (Summer 1984): 8, 18-19. “Asa Mahan at Oberlin: The Pitfalls of Perfection.” Oberlin Alumni Magazine (Spring 1984): 24-27. “The Revival of Carnegie Library.” The Observer (Oberlin, OH: Oberlin College), April 26, 1984. “Cass Gilbert, Architect: Conservative at Bay.” The Journal of American History 72, no. 3 (Dec. 1985): 615-636. “Oberlin and the G.I. Bill: 40 Years Later.” Oberlin Alumni Magazine (Spring 1987): 4-9. “Philip Johnson’s Great Depression.” Timeline 4, no. 3 (Jun/Jul. 1987): 2-17. “The Zipper in the Rainbow.” Oberlin Alumni Magazine (Summer 1988): 13-15. “The Town and Its Gown: Has Oberlin Changed?” Oberlin Alumni Magazine (Fall 1988): 4-5. “The Architectural Psychology of the Gilded Age.” Hayes Historical Journal 7, no. 3 (Spring 1988): 5-20. “Oberlin Starts the Civil War.” Oberlin Alumni Magazine (Summer 1990): 23-25. “Creating a Home at Spiegel Grove,” Hayes Historical Journal 10, no.2 (Winter 1991): 50-54. “Professor Geiser: Politically Incorrect.” The Observer (Oberlin, OH: Oberlin College), April 11, 1991. “Memorial Minute: Robert Elgy Neil.” Oberlin Alumni Magazine (Summer 1991): 44-46.

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Subgroup VII. Writings (cont.) Series 1. Writings by Blodgett (cont.) Subseries 3. Articles (cont.)

Box 5 (cont.) Selected entries in Political Parties and Elections in the United States: An Encyclopedia, edited by L. Sandy Maisel and Charles Bassett. New York: Garland Publishing, Inc., 1991. “Oberlin Football Celebrates Long History.” The Oberlin Review (Oberlin, OH), Oct. 4, 1991.

See SG XII. Ephemera and Artwork, Box 1 (oversize) “Filling the Blank: A New Window for Finney Chapel.” In Robert Mangold: The Oberlin Window. Oberlin, OH: The Allen Memorial Art Museum, 1992. (2 copies)

Box 5 (cont.) “The Emergence of Grover Cleveland: A Fresh Appraisal.” New York History 73, no. 2 (April 1992): 133-168. “Embattled Professor: Oberlin College Debates the Third Reich.” Timeline 9, no. 4 (August 1992): 2-19. Introduction to “Country Boy: Growing Up in Northern Ohio in the 1820s.” By James Harris Fairchild. Elyria, OH: Lorain County Historical Society, 1993. “Grover Cleveland.” In Historic World Leaders, edited by Anne Commire. Detroit: Gale, 1994. “Oberlin fever: Improving each other for 16 decades.” The Observer (Oberlin, OH: Oberlin College), January 19, 1995. “World War II in Retrospect: History and Memory.” The Observer (Oberlin, OH: Oberlin College), September 14, 1995. “The Grand March of Oberlin campus plans.” The Observer (Oberlin, OH), May 11, 1995. “Henry George and Utopia.” In American Reform and Reformers: A Biographical Dictionary, edited by Randall M. Miller and Paul Alan Cimbala. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1996. “The Meaning of Peters Hall.” Oberlin Alumni Magazine (Fall 1997): 10-21. “Memorial Minute: Barry McGill.” Oberlin Alumni Magazine (Spring 1997): 39. “Father Finney’s Church.” Timeline 14, no. 1 (February 1997): 20-33. “Oberlin Historic Landmarks,” pamphlet, Oberlin, OH, 1997. “Campus Life at Oberlin, 1930-1945.” Oberlin Alumni Magazine (Winter 1998): 10-15. “Historian’s Notebook.” Oberlin Alumni Magazine (Fall 1998): 10. “In Their Shadow, In Their Light,” pamphlet, Oberlin College, 1999.

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Subgroup VII. Writings (cont.) Series 1. Writings by Blodgett (cont.) Subseries 3. Articles (cont.)

Box 5 (cont.) Selected entries in American National Biography, ed. by John A. Garraty and Mark C. Carnes. New York: Oxford University Press,1999. “Historian’s Notebook: Warfare Between Science and Religion.” Oberlin Alumni Magazine (March 1999): 10. “Historian’s Notebook: Liberal Education, How it Can Work.” Oberlin Alumni Magazine (August 1999): 7. “Historian’s Notebook: Tobacco at Oberlin.” Oberlin Alumni Magazine (May 1999): 7. “The Day Oberlin Beat Michigan, or Did We?” Oberlin Alumni Magazine (Winter 1999): 9. “Historian’s Notebook: Warfare Between Science and Religion.” Oberlin Alumni Magazine (March 1999): 10.

Box 6 “World War II in Retrospect.” The Annual of The John Frederick Oberlin Society, vol. 1 (1998): 26-35. “Campus Life at Oberlin, 1930-1945.” The Annual of The John Frederick Oberlin Society, vol. 2 (1999): 2-14. “Ethno-Cultural Realities in Presidential Patronage: Grover Cleveland’s Choices.” New York History 81, no. 2 (April 2000): 189-210. “Cass Gilbert & Julia Finch: Falling in Love in the 1880s.” Minnesota History 57, no. 1 (Spring 2000): 38-50. “Memorial Minute: Ellsworth Carlson.” Oberlin Alumni Magazine (Summer 2000): 54-55. “Charles William Eliot.” In The Oxford Companion to United States History, edited by Paul S. Boyer. New York: Oxford University Press, 2001.

Subseries 4. Books, 1966, 1970, 1976, 1981, 1985, 1992-93, 1996 (0.2 l.f.)

Box 7 The Gentle Reformers: Massachusetts in the Cleveland Era. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1966. “Reform Thought and the Genteel Tradition.” In The Gilded Age, edited by H. Wayne Morgan. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1970. “A New Look at the Gilded Age.” In Victorian America, edited by Daniel Walker Howe. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1976.

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Subgroup VII. Writings (cont.) Series 1. Writings by Blodgett (cont.) Subseries 4. Books (cont.)

Box 7 (cont.) “Landscape Design as Conservative Reform.” In Art of the Olmsted Landscape, edited by Bruce Kelly, Gail Travis Guillet, and Mary Ellen W. Hern. New York: Arts Publisher, Inc., 1981. Oberlin Architecture: A Guide to its Social History. Kent, OH: The Kent State University Press, 1985. Country Boy: Growing Up in the Northern Ohio of the 1820s. Pamphlet. Elyria, OH: Lorain County Historical Society, 1993. “Frederick Law Olmsted: Landscape Architecture as Conservative Reform.” In The Physical City: Public Space and the Infrastructure, Vol. 2, edited by Neil Larry Shumsky. New York & London: Garland Publishing Company, 1996.

Oversize box in SG XI “Filling the Blank: A New Window for Finney Chapel,” in Robert Mangold: The Oberlin Window. Oberlin, OH: The Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College, 1992. Exhibition catalog. (2 copies)

Subseries 5. Correspondence with Publishers and Others, 1958-75, 1978-95, 1997-2000, 2002, n.d. (0.3 l.f.)

Box 8 Publishers Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, Edward T. James, ed., Notable American Women, 1607-1950: A Biographical Dictionary, 1962-65, 1969, 1971, n.d. Gale Research, Inc., entry for Leaders of the World, 1991 Garland Publishing, Inc., twelve entries for Political Parties and Elections in the United States: An Encyclopedia, edited by L. Sandy Maisel and Charles Bassett, 1988-91 Greenwood Press “Henry George and Utopia,” in American Reform and Reformers: A Biographical Dictionary, 1964, 1992, 1994-95 “Yankee Leadership in a Divided City: Boston, 1860-1910,” in Ronald Formisano and Constance Burns, eds., Boston, 1700-1980: The Evolution of Urban Politics, 1981-83 Harper & Row, Publishers With Addison-Wesley Publishing Co., “The Mugwump Style” (unpublished book manuscript), 1967-68, 1970, 1973-74 The American Biographical Encyclopedia, 1971-72

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Subgroup VII. Writings (cont.) Series 1. Writings by Blodgett (cont.) Subseries 5. Correspondence with Publishers and Others (cont.)

Box 8 (cont.) Publishers (cont.) Harvard University Press, The Gentle Reformers, 1963-67, 1978 Hayes Historical Journal, Hayes Presidential Center “Architectural Psychology of the Gilded Age,”1987-88 “Creating a Home at Spiegel Grove,” 1990-91 Indiana Magazine of History “The Dawning World of Claude Bowers,” 1964-67 Journal of American History ”Cass Gilbert and the Politics of Public Architecture, 1900-1935,” 1984-85 “Frederick Law Olmsted: Landscape Architecture as Conservative Reform,” 1974-75, 1979, 1982, 1998 “The Mugwump Reputation, 1870 to the Present,” 1979-80 Journal of Urban History, “Yankee Leadership in a Divided City: Boston, 1860-1910,” 1981-82 Kent State University Press, Oberlin Architecture, College and Town, 1983-86, 1990 Metropolitan Museum of Art, reprint of “Frederick Law Olmstead: Landscape Architecture as Conservative Reform,” in Art of the Olmstead Landscape (exhibition catalogue), 1981-82 Minnesota Historical Society with Jane Blodgett re: Cass Gilbert: The Early Years, 2002 Mississippi Valley Historical Review / Journal of American History, “The Mind of the Boston Mugwump,” 1960-62, 1973-75 New England Quarterly “Josiah Quincy: Brahmin Democrat,” 1964-66, 1983, n.d. “Winston Churchill: The Novelist as Reformer,” 1973-75, n.d. New York History “Ethno-cultural Realities in Presidential Patronage: Grover Cleveland’s Choices,” 1999-2000 New York History and The Journal of American History “The Emergence of Grover Cleveland: A Fresh Appraisal,” 1990-93, n.d. Oberlin Alumni Magazine “President King and Cass Gilbert: The Grand Collaboration,” 1982 “What Happened To” column, 1992, n.d. Oxford University Press Entries for American National Biography, 1991-93, 1995 Dictionary of American Biography, 1969-70, 1972

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Subgroup VII. Writings (cont.) Series 1. Writings by Blodgett (cont.) Subseries 5. Correspondence with Publishers and Others (cont.)

Box 9 (cont.) Publishers (cont.) Princeton Architectural Press, The Campus Guide: Oberlin College, 2000, n.d. Charles Scribner’s Sons Dictionary of American Biography Charles Evans Hughes, 1972-74 Ida Tarbell, 1968-69 Winston Churchill, 1972-74 Encyclopedia of the United States in the Nineteenth Century, 1997- 99 The South Atlantic Quarterly, “The Political Leadership of Grover Cleveland,” 1982-83 Syracuse University Press, H. Wayne Morgan, ed., The Gilded Age, 1968-70 Timeline (Ohio Historical Society), “Father Finney’s Church,” 1994-95 TV Guide, “Victoria Woodhull: The Feminist with Something Extra,” 1973- 74 Various publishers, “His Son the Architect: Homer Johnson and Philip Johnson, an Ohio Story,” 1984-88, 1990 The World Publishing Company, entry for The Jefferson Encyclopedia, “Democratic Party,” 1968 Others Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, “Cass Gilbert and the Politics of Public Architecture” in From Regional to National Architect: Cass Gilbert, Life and Work (unpublished), 1999 Correspondence regarding publications “A New Look at the American Gilded Age,” Historical Reflections, 1975 “The Dawning World of Claude Bowers,” Indiana Magazine of History, 1964-65, 1967 The Gentle Reformers, Harvard University Press (1966) Correspondence, clippings, 1964, 1966-67, 1969-70, 1973 Permissions, 1958-60, 1965-66 Oberlin Architecture, College and Town, Kent State University Press (1985), 1985-86, 1988, n.d.

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Subgroup VII. Writings (cont.) Series 1. Writings by Blodgett (cont.)

Subseries 6. Reviews and Citations of Blodgett’s Writings, 1966, 1968, ca. 1970-72, 1975-77, 1981-82, 1985-92, 1994-97, 2000, n.d. (0.1 l.f.)

Box 9 (cont.) Critique by Oberlin alum on unidentified piece, 1982 Manuscript evaluations Mugwumps: Public Moralists of the Gilded Age, manuscript evaluation by David M. Tucker, 1997 Reviews of Blodgett’s writings, 1966, ca. 1970, 1972, 1981, 1985-86, n.d. Oberlin Architecture, College and Town, 1985-86, 1989 Citations by other scholars, 1968, 1971, 1975-77, 1982, 1985, 1987-88, 1990-92, 1994-95, 1996, 2000

Series 2. Writings by Others, 1856-2008 (span) (0.8 l.f.)

Subseries 1. Manuscripts, 1944-1998 (span) (0.1 l.f.) (Restricted from copying)

Box 1 Bruner, Jere, compiled poetry, short stories, translations, lectures and talks, 1944, 1947-48, 1950-58, 1962, 1965, 1975, 1977-79, 1998 Calvert, Robert Jr., “Oberlin at War: Capsules of World War II,” ca. 1994 (with correspondence) Craig, Norman “Charles Martin Hall—The Young Man, his Mentor, and his Metal,” October 1, 1985 “Julia Hall, Co-inventor?,” October 1996 Fuller, Robert W., “In Search of a Better Game than War,” (photocopied galley) 1989 Linehan, Tom, untitled article on the FDR Memorial, ca. 1980 Thelen, Jennifer, untitled (history of the Alumni Association), May 1988 Unknown, “Wildfire: Edmonia Lewis in Two Worlds,” ca. 1994 (See evaluation by Blodgett in SG VII. Series 1. Subseries 2.)

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Subgroup VII. Writings (cont.) Series 2. Writings by Others (cont.)

Subseries 2. Articles, 1930-1997 (span) (0.2 l.f.)

Box 1 (cont.) Ahern, William H. “The Cox Plan of Reconstruction: A Case Study in Ideology and Race Relations,” Civil War History (reprint) 16, no. 4 (December 1970). Blodgett, Harold W. Newspaper clippings, 1965 (See also Subgroup II, Correspondence, 1965) Duberman, Martin. “The Abolitionists and Psychology,” The Journal of Negro History (reprint) 47, no. 3 (July 1962). With letter of reply. Fletcher, Robert S. “That Hard Winter in Montana, 1886-1887,” Agricultural History (reprint) 4, no. 4 (October 1930). “Going West to College in the Thirties,” edited by Robert S. Flecther, Oberlin College Library Bulletin 2, no. 1 (1930). “John Brown and Oberlin,” Oberlin Alumni Magazine (reprint) (February 1932). “Oneida and Oberlin,” Town Topics of the Mohawk Valley (reprint) (ca. 1933) “The Government of the Oberlin Colony,” The Mississippi Valley Historical Review (reprint) 20, no. 2 (September 1933). “The Beginning of College Education for Women and of Coeducation on the College Level,” Bulletin of Oberlin College 343 (March 20, 1937). “Bread and Doctrine at Oberlin,” Ohio Archeological and Historical Quarterly (reprint) (1938). Higham, John, “Indian Princess and Roman Goddess: The First Female Symbols of America,” American Antiquarian Society, 1990. Hubbell, John T., ed. Civil War History, A Journal of the Middle Period 20, no. 3 (September 1974). Kelley, Robert. “Ideology and Political Culture from Jefferson to Nixon,” The American Historical Review 82, no. 3 (June 1977). Koppes, Clayton, “From New Deal to Termination: Liberalism and Indian Policy, 1933-1953,” Pacific Historical Review 46, no. 4 (November 1977). Stout, Harry, “The Great Awakening in New England Reconsidered: The New England Clergy,” Journal of Social History (1974-75). Taylor, Warren. “Educational Myopia,” Journal of Higher Education (reprint) 33, no. 9 (December 1962).

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Subgroup VII. Writings (cont.) Series 2. Writings by Others (cont.) Subseries 2. Articles (cont.)

Box 1 (cont.) Tucker, John Mark. “Wide Awakening: Political and Theological Impulses for Reading and Libraries at Oberlin College, 1883-1908,” Occasional Papers, Graduate School of Library and Information Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, no. 207, (February 1997). Ware, Jane. “Ohio’s Most Famous Village,” Ohio Magazine, October 1990. Whitfield, Stephen J. “’Sacred in History and in Art’: The Shaw Memorial,” The New England Quarterly 60, no. 1 (March 1987).

Subseries 3. Books, 1876, 1921, 1937, 1957, 1970, 1982 (0.1 l.f.)

Box 1 (cont.) Book Chapters Thernstrom, Stephen. “Ethnic Groups in American History,” from Lance Liebman, ed., Ethnic Relations in America. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1982. Watts, May. “The Stylish House, or Fashions as an Ecological Factor,” from Reading the Landscape; an Adventure in Ecology. New York: Macmillan, 1957.

See SG VII, Series 1, Subseries 4, Box 7 Books Finney, Charles Grandison. Memoirs of Rev. Charles G. Finney. New York: A.S. Barnes & Company, 1876. Turner, Frederick Jackson. The Frontier in American History. New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1921. Inscribed by the author to Robert S. Fletcher.

Box 1 (cont.) United States Department of the Interior. Glimpses of Historical Areas East of the Mississippi River. Washington: US Government Printing Office, 1937. Withey, Henry F. and Elsie Rathburn. Biographical Dictionary of American Architects (deceased). Los Angeles: Hennessey and Ingalls, 1970. (photocopy)

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Subgroup VII. Writings (cont.) Series 2. Writings by Others (cont.)

Subseries 4. Electronic Media, 2006-08 (0.05 l.f.)

Box 2 Geoffrey Blodgett: The Social History of American Architecture Electronic transcriptions of course lectures with digital images in HTML on DVD, edited and copyright Jane Blodgett, 2007-08 (open with Firefox browser) Permissions, related correspondence, clippings, 2007-08

Subseries 5. Historical Printed Matter, 1856, 1918, 1940, 1942-43, 1957, 1961, 1963-64 (0.15 l.f.)

Box 2 (cont.) Booklets and Pamphlets Drew, Thomas (comp), The Campaign of 1856: Fremont Songs for the People, Original and Selected (Boston: John P. Jewett and Company; Cleveland, OH: Jewett, Proctor and Worthington; New York: Sheldon, Blakeman and Co., 1856) Fallout Protection: What to Know and Do About Nuclear Attack (Department of Defense, Office of Civil Defense, 1961) Hoppner, O.J., Academic Costume in America (Cotrell and Leonard, Inc., n.d.) Songs the Soldiers and Sailors Sing! (New York: Leo Feist, Inc., 1918) Walker, John, War Planes of the World (Whitman Publishing Co., 1940, 1942, 1943) Article Reprints McGrory, Mary, In Memoriam: John Fitzgerald Kennedy (Washington, D.C.: Evening Star Newspaper Co., 1963) Schlamm, William S., and L. Brent Bozell, “Senator Joseph R. McCarthy: An Appraisal” (reprint), National Review (New York: May 18, 1957) Newspapers Mississippi Free Press, Special Election Supplement (Jackson, MI: Vol. 2, No. 34, August 3, 1963) Miscellaneous Political party materials for the U.S. National Election, 1964

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Subgroup VIII. Oral Histories, 1963, 1978-80, 1984, 1987, 1989, 1991-92, 1994-95 (1.49 l.f.)

Series 1. Transcriptions of Oral Histories by Blodgett, 1979-80, 1984, 1991, 1994-95 (0.3 l.f.)

Box 1 Artz, Frederick B. by G.T. Blodgett, February 2, 1979 (2 copies) Griswold, Erwin N. by G.T. Blodgett, February 13-15, 1984 (2f) (For correspondence regarding the Erwin N. Griswold oral history, see SG II. Series 2. Griswold] Clippings on Erwin N. Griswold, 1991, 1994-95 Holbrook, Clyde A., Oberlin, OH, January 12-13, 1979; 1977 Holbrook, Dorothy, Oberlin, OH, January 20, 1979 Stevenson, William E. by G.T. Blodgett, Aspen, CO, July 18-20, 1979 Vance, Elbridge, March 17, 1979; 1980

Series 2. Oral History Recordings by Blodgett, 1979 (1.0 l.f.)

Box 2 CD-ROMs (digital copies from cassette tapes) Stevenson, William E. by G.T. Blodgett, Aspen, CO, July 18-19, 1979 (8 disks) (2f)

Box 3 Cassette Tapes (original format) Holbrook, Clyde A. by G.T. Blodgett, January 12-13, 1979 (2 original tapes, 2 copy tapes) Holbrook, Dorothy by G.T. Blodgett, January 20, 1979 (1 original tape, 1 copy tape) Stevenson, William E. by G.T. Blodgett, Aspen, CO, July 18-19, 1979 (8 original tapes, 8 copy tapes) Vance, Elbridge on the Carr presidency by Geoffrey Blodgett, March 17, 1979 (1 tape, 1 copy tape)

Series 3. Correspondence re: Oral History Project, 1978-80, 1984, 1987, n.d. (0.1 l.f.)

Box 1 (cont.) Institutional support for Oral History Project, 1978-79 Oral history interview with William E. Stevenson, 1979-80, 1984, 1987, n.d.

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Subgroup VIII. Oral Histories (cont.)

Series 4. Oral Histories by Others, 1963, 1989, 1992 (3 tapes) (0.09 l.f.)

Box 3 (cont.) Cassette Tapes First Church Cornerstone Sesquicentennial, Sunday service and speakers on building and church history, June 23, 1992 (1 tape) WOBC Radio, oral history and music programs under the series title We’ll be the Same, produced by Anita Jacobs, Spring 1989 (1 tape) (See additional copies in the Oral History Collection, RG 43) “Oberlin College in the Teens and Twenties,” with Gertrude Jacob and Margaret Schauffler (side A) “The Great Depression as it Affected the Oberlin Area,” with Glenn Hobbs (side B)

Subgroup IX. Architectural Records, 1916, ca. 1920s, post-1933 (1.66 l.f.)

Series 1. Ohio Buildings, 1916, ca. 1920s

Oversize box 1 Drawing (copy) by Cass Gilbert for proposed Oberlin College tower, June 8, 1916 Drawings and notes by Prof. Thomas E. O’Donnell (U. of Illinois) on Early Ohio Architecture, ca. 1920s (drawings on tracing paper) Ainsworth House, Medina, OH, n.d. Andrews House, Old Milan, OH, n.d. Bacon Tavern, location unknown, n.d. Coe House (1835), Coe Ridge, OH, n.d. Sandusky County Courthouse (1840-44), Fremont, OH, n.d. Swift House (1840-41), South of Vermilion, OH, 1921, n.d.

Series 2. Massachusetts Buildings, post-1933

Oversize Box 1 (cont.) Historic American Buildings Survey plans (bluelines), U.S. Dept. of the Interior, Office of National Parks, Buildings and Reservations, Branch of Plans and Designs (documentation after 1933) Andrews House, Bridgewater, MA (ca. 1780) (5 sheets) Col. Crosby House, So. Brookfield, MA (1797) (12 sheets) Mary Lyon House, Buckland, MA (1818) (7 sheets) William H. Winn House, Burlington, MA (n.d.) (10 sheets)

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Subgroup IX. Architectural Records (cont.) Series 2. Massachusetts Buildings (cont.)

Oversize Box 1 (cont.) Historic American Buildings Survey plans, U.S. Dept. of the Interior, Office of National Parks, Buildings and Reservations, Branch of Plans (cont.) Francis Wyman House, Burlington, MA (ca. 1730) (11 sheets) Christ Church, Cambridge, MA (1761) (8 sheets) Fort Washington, Cambridge, MA (1775) (3 sheets) Holden Chapel, Harvard College, Cambridge, MA (1744) (5 sheets)

Subgroup X. Photographs, 19th Century to 2000 (1.66 l.f.)

Series 1. Lantern Slides, 19th-early 20th Centuries (0.66 l.f.)

Boxes 1-2 Lantern slides (70) of Oberlin College buildings, people, events, campus views (Original photography and copies of older images, 19th-early 20th centuries; detailed inventory available in case file).

Series 2. Modern 35mm Slides, 1960s-2000 (0.4 l.f.) (Blodgett slides of American architecture outside Oberlin located in the Art Department’s Visual Resources Department, with the exception of Cass Gilbert material listed below)

Subseries 1. Oberlin (some are copies)

Box 3 College presidents and notables (primarily copies of portraits) Slides for talk, “Oberlin Architecture” (original order) Oberlin College architecture, monuments, and landscape (6f) Town of Oberlin architecture (original order) (2f) Oberlin houses and public buildings Oberlin buildings and Ohio maps (older slides), n.d. Oberlin Bandstand Competition entries, © Allen Memorial Art Museum, ca. 1987 (not taken by Blodgett)

Subseries 2. Architecture by Cass Gilbert (outside Oberlin)

Box 3 (cont.) Buildings by Cass Gilbert outside of Oberlin

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Subgroup X. Photographs (cont.) Series 2. Modern 35mm Slides (cont.) Subseries 2. Architecture by Cass Gilbert (cont.)

Box 3 (cont.) Illustrations for Cass Gilbert: The Early Years (Minnesota Historical Society Press, 2001) (2f) List of slides of Cass Gilbert buildings, n.d.

Series 3. Photographic Prints, ca. 1850s-20th Century (0.59 l.f.)

Box 4 Geoffrey Blodgett and Family All-College portraits, 1951, n.d. (photocopies) Football photographs, ca. 1953-54 (2f) Geoffrey Blodgett, 1953, 1963-64, 1968, 1986, 1991, 1997, 2000, n.d. Former students, 1986, 1990-91, 1994, 1996-97, n.d. Franklin Delano Roosevelt, taken by Edgar Zimmerman, July 1937 Oberlin College faculty, ca. 1980s, 1987 Oberlin College staff, 1980, ca. 1983, 1997 Oberlin buildings and streets taken or collected by Geoffrey Blodgett Oberlin College buildings Allen Memorial Art Museum, 1977-78 Baldwin Cottage, 1985 Peters Hall, 1977-78, 1997 Other, 1973, 1976, 1978, c. 1987, 1995 Oberlin structures by street College Street, ca. 1920, ca. 1925, ca. 1928, 1972, 1976, n.d. Elm Street, ca. 1900s, ca. late 1920s, 1972, 1976, n.d. Forest Street, 1929, 1976-78, n.d. Lorain Street, ca. 1928, 1966, 1976 Main Street, late 19th century, ca. 1920s, 1976, n.d. Morgan Street, 1977 and Gasholder House, n.d.; N. Pleasant Street, ca. 1983 Professor Street, 1972, 1976, n.d. Reamer Street, 1977, n.d. Route 10 West; South Prospect Street, 1976 Vine Street, East—Chauncey Wack House, n.d. Unidentified, 19th and 20th centuries Non-Oberlin buildings, early 20th century, 1981, 1994-95, 1997, 2000, n.d. Bellevue, OH Cambridge, MA Elyria, OH

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Subgroup X. Photographs (cont.) Series 3. Photographic Prints (cont.)

Box 4 (cont.) Non-Oberlin buildings, early 20th century (cont.) Hudson, OH New London, CT Newport Cliffs, RI Spring Valley, OH Wellington, OH Oberlin College Archives images Bust of John Brown by Joseph-Charles de Blezer, gifted to Oberlin College Archives, n.d. (See also Subgroup VI. Research Files) Copy prints of historical portraits, n.d. Prints from Princehorn negatives and copyprints Oberlin College buildings (2f) Oberlin houses Other Oberlin structures

Box 5 Photocopies of Oberlin history photographs Photographs and postcards, posted on Blodgett’s office door or passed in classes, 1928, 1930, 1937, 1976, n.d. (See also oversize photographs in SG XI, Box 1) Photographs used in Publications Cass Gilbert Philip and Homer Johnson Oberlin History: Essays and Impressions (Kent State University Press, 2006) Josiah Quincy, ca. 1897 Reproductions in Publications G. Blodgett in Peace Corps Training Program, Oberlin Alumni Magazine, January 1964, 11. Photographs by G. Blodgett (photocopies) of murals by Kenyon Cox, in H. Wayne Morgan, Kenyon Cox: 1856-1919: A Life in American Art (Kent, OH: Kent State University Press, 1994) Research Photographs Pennsylvania factory towns (37), 1915, 1917, n.d. Loose album pages with notations, 1915, 1917, n.d. Mounted on board, n.d. [2000/077] (2f) Grace Memorial Episcopal Church designed by Cass Gilbert, color panoramas, ca. 1995 World War II veterans at Oberlin, from Millicent Blodgett Seely, 1946, n.d. (collected for “Oberlin and the G.I. Bill”)

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Subgroup X. Photographs (cont.) Series 3. Photographic Prints (cont.)

Box 5 (cont.) Historical Photographic Formats Carte-de-visite (1864), cabinet card (1892) Stereographs (for use in stereoscope in SG XII), 1898-99, n.d. Unidentified and miscellaneous buildings, 1981, 1997, n.d.

In SG XI, Box 1 (oversize) Photographs posted on Blodgett’s office door or passed in classes, 1937, n.d.

Series 4. Negatives, 1975, n.d. (0.01 l.f.)

Box 5 (cont.) Black and white film negatives (26) Carnegie Library, n.d. (1 4” x 5” copy negative) Charles Martin Hall, n.d. (1 4”x 5” copy negative) History Department faculty, 1975 (1 35mm negative) Oberlin buildings, Tappan Square, n.d. (22 35mm negatives) Pearson House, 290 Elm Street, n.d. (1 35mm negative)

Subgroup XI. Artworks and Ephemera, 19th-20th Centuries (1.66 l.f.)

Series 1. Artworks, 1986, 1990, n.d. (same box with Series 2)

Box 1 (oversize) Framed collage with image of architect Charles Gwathmey and his sketch of Stevenson Hall on placemat (1986), inscribed to Geoffrey Blodgett, 1990 Illustration of Colonel John Morley, founder and first president of the Golf Course Superintendents Association of America, n.d.

Framed Item Print of Abraham Lincoln (framed) (originally belonged to Robert Fletcher), n.d. [2002/140]

Series 2. Ephemera, 19th-20th Centuries (same box with Series 1)

Box 1 (oversize) (cont.) Oberlin College Commencement Exercises Schedule (photographic copies), 1845 (2)

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Subgroup XI. Artworks and Ephemera (cont.) Series 2. Ephemera (cont.)

Box 1 (oversize) (cont.) “Root Hog or Die,” lyrics transcribed by Alvin Wheelock, Hanover (state unknown, United States), 1854 Letter from the W.B. (?) Gates, Elyria Board of Improvements, to his son, Elyria, Ohio, 8 November 1888 Handbill, health meeting, Oberlin College Chapel, 11 March 1892 Cover of song sheet for “Red Wing,” by Kerry Mills, ca. 1907 Multilateral Treaty for the Renunciation of War, 1928 (facsimile), (Central National Bank of Cleveland),1929 Materials posted on Blodgett’s office door or passed in classes, 19th-20th centuries Cartoons, clippings, photocopies, handbills, postcards, and miscellaneous ephemera (See also SG X. Photographs)

Subgroup XII. Objects, 1683, ca. 1815, ca. 1835, ca. 1860s-80s, ca. 1908, 1940, ca. 1950s, 2001, 2003, n.d. (2.18 l.f.)

Box 1 Blodgett family gravestone fragments (slate), Rushville, NY, ca. 1815 Football (Oberlin College game ball) presented to Geoffrey Blodgett, October 20, 2001 Glass fragment from original window in Finney Chapel, ca. 1908 Mock Convention badge and ribbon for New York Republican candidate, 1940 Nails from house made from remnant of First Ladies Hall, ca. 1835 Parchment document of indenture, England, 1683 Plaque presented posthumously by the Oberlin College Department of Athletics and Physical Education, May 23, 2003 Stereograph viewer, ca. 1860s-80s Stick and ribbons for cheering athletics, ca. 1950s Varsity letter ‘O”, n.d.

Box 2 Necktie owned by architect Louis Kahn, gifted by his niece, Prof. Sandy Zagarell, n.d.

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