The Bob Tobin papers contain materials such as newsletters, event planning notes and flyers, newspaper clippings, VHS tapes, and correspondence ranging from 1984 to 2003. Materials relate to Tobin’s work as the faculty advisor to Whitman’s LGBTQ groups and general LGBTQ activism in the Whitman and Walla Walla community.

This collection contains transcripts and interviews conducted as part of the Whitman College LGBTQ+ Oral History Project. The Whitman College LGBTQ+ Oral History Project, hosted by the Whitman College and Northwest Archives and supported by the Whitman History Department, was created in 2019 in order to document and preserve the story of Whitman’s enduring LGBTQ+ groups.