Contributors/Artists
The customized design for Architecture of Oberlin College in Omeka was created by Eva Fineberg, OC 2015, as a Winter Term project in January 2015.
Images, descriptions and other metadata were compiled/written by Associate Archivist (ret.) Anne Cuyler Salsich, with assistance from Haley Antell, Archives and Special Collections Intern. John T. Seyfried, an Oberlin College freelance photographer, graciously contributed new photography for eight structures not already represented. Serena Creary (Class of 2017), Archives Student Assistant, took photographs for two entries.
Other images not in the Archives were supplied by the College's Office of Communications. Jonathan Thurn, Class of 2003, created the first online illustrated guide for buildings erected before 1937 as a student project in 2000. It was designed using Dreamweaver, and titled Photographic Building Guide.
Content was derived from descriptions of College and Oberlin town buildings that appeared in the 1936 Alumni Catalogue and a set of building cards created by the College Secretary's office and maintained by the Archives. In 2010 Caroline Casey, Class of 2011, updated the guide to include entries for certain buildings constructed up through 2010.
The title of the guide was changed to the Illustrated Building Guide. In 2012 the Library and the Archives adopted a new website, and in 2015 the older iterations of the guide to Oberlin College's architecture were removed from public access. Architecture of Oberlin College was published on August 3, 2015.