Clarence Ward Art Library Exhibit

Long before there was an Art Museum at Oberlin, Adelia A. Field Johnston brought her love of art to the college and broader community. Born in Ohio in 1837, Johnston completed the “Ladies Course” at Oberlin in 1856. Traveling abroad to study European…

From The Life of Adelia A. Field Johnston who served Oberlin College for thirty-seven years... by Harriet L. Keeler [Cleveland, O., The Britton Printing Co., c1912], Courtesy Oberlin College Library

A scan of pages 138-39 from Dr. Edward H. Clarke's very popular book Sex in Education or A Fair Chance for Girls (1873)

A scan of pages 10,11 from Samuel Fisher's "Female Education: An Address Delivered at the Dedication of the Ohio Female College"

Adelia Field Johnson in her Academic Gown

Letter to Mrs. Johnston regarding her honorary doctor of laws degree from Western Reserve University

a photograph of tickets to a lecture by Adelia Johnston

Heliotype Detail of Perugia, Adorazione dei pastori

Heliotyple Detail, no date, of Egyptian Pyramids.