Photographing Statues: Share Your Best Shots

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In the spring of 1959, I was walking around the town where I was in college and photographed this in someone's backyard.

On another day I was down by Plum Creek and photographed the statue of Giles Shurtleff.

Giles Shurtleff was a theology student and tutor at Oberlin when the Civil War broke out. He was instrumental in the formation of the Company C, a regiment of the 7th Ohio Volunteer Infantry. Company C was made up of Oberlin College students. Shurtleff served as its captain. He later commanded the 127th Ohio Volunteer Infantry/5th US Colored Infantry, the first black regiment in Ohio.

His statue stood outside Shurtleff Cottage. The cottage was built in the Italianate style in 1892, was the former home of General Giles W. Shurtleff, who "gave forty-four years of his life to the service of Oberlin College,—as Tutor Adjunct Professor, and Professor of Latin, later as Secretary and Treasurer for six years, and for eleven years as a member of the Board of Trustees. "


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Shurtleff Cottage was purchased by the College in the summer of 1912 and remodeled for use as a dormitory for 30 women. Since 1990, Shurtleff Cottage has been privately owned and is now a place to stay.
 

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