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Lincoln Institute (Simpsonville, Ky.).

 Organization

Found in 6 Collections and/or Records:

Lincoln Institute

 File — Box 125: Series 13, Folder: 11
Identifier: 13
Scope and Contents From the Series:

Photographs related to people, places, things and events intimately connected with the College's history.

Dates: translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1853-; Majority of material found in 1890-2000

Lincoln Institute: Berea Hall cornerstone laying ceremony, 1911

 File — Box 126: Oversized: Series 2; Series 3; Series 5; Series 6; Series 13, Folder: 17
Identifier: 13
Scope and Contents

Six photographs (10.5 x 13.5 inches) of the celebration of the cornerstone laying of Berea Hall on the campus of Lincoln Institute, 1911.

Dates: 1911

Lincoln Institute collection

 Collection
Identifier: RG 13-13.29
Abstract The Lincoln Institute was an all-black boarding high school in Simpsonville, Kentucky, near Louisville, that operated from 1912 to 1966. The school was created by the trustees of Berea College after the Kentucky State Legislature passed the Day Law (1904) putting an end to the racially integrated education at Berea that had existed since the end of the Civil War. The founders originally intended the institute to be a college as well as a high school, but by the 1930s it gave up its junior...
Dates: translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1905 - 2023

Lincoln Institute Oral History Collection

 Collection
Identifier: RG 14-14.02
Abstract Lincoln Institute was an all-black boarding high school in Simpsonville, Kentucky, near Louisville, that operated from 1912 to 1966. The school was created by the trustees of Berea College after the Kentucky State Legislature passed the Day Law (1904) putting an end to the racially integrated education at Berea that had existed since the end of the Civil War. The founders originally intended Lincoln to be a college as well as a high school, but by the 1930s it gave up its junior college...
Dates: translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 2003 - 2008

Nora Lou Thomson Treese collection

 Collection
Identifier: RG 08-8.26
Abstract

Collection of materials of Mary Lou Thomson Treese, 1944 graduate of Berea College.

Dates: Other: Majority of material found within 1907-1927

Western Kentucky University | 1378 | [BCA]

 Unprocessed Material — Box 126: Oversized: Series 2; Series 3; Series 5; Series 6; Series 13
Identifier: 1378

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Type
Collection 3
Archival Object 2
Unprocessed Material 1
 
Subject
African Americans -- Education -- Kentucky. 2
Kentucky Day Law. 1
Oral history -- Berea College (Ky). 1
Oral history. 1
Students, college -- Berea College 1