Berea College
Organization
Found in 63 Collections and/or Records:
Berea College Blacks in Appalachia Symposium Collection, 1989
Collection
Identifier: RG 11-11.07
Scope and Contents
This collection is comprised of recordings documenting the event "Blacks in Appalachia - From Invisibility to Importance: A Symposium, Seminar, and Celebration" held at Berea College, May 19-20, 1989. The event marked the establishment of the Goode Professorship of Black and Appalachian Studies at Berea College.
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Dates:
Other: Majority of material found in 1989
Berea College Fire Department
Collection
Identifier: RG 05-5.21
Abstract
Starting in 1899, a fire brigade made up of students and known as the "Bucket Brigade," was established on campus and responded to calls both on and off campus. Formally established in 1905 by the College, the Fire Department served the campus and the city and was staffed by students. In 1966, the City of Berea took over responsibilities for operating the fire department ending what many affectionally referred to as the "College Fire Department."
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1914-1994
Berea College Non-Serial Publications
Collection
Identifier: RG 12-12.22
Scope and Contents
This collection contains a variety of non-serial publications of Berea College and its affiliated schools, including a number of short-lived student publications.
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1900-1990
Berea College Photographic Archives
Collection
Identifier: BC PH-BC PH
Scope and Contents
Photographic prints, negatives, and slides documenting the history of Berea College.
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1853-; Majority of material found in 1890-2000
Berea College Reporter
Collection
Identifier: RG 12-12.24
Scope and Contents
Early newspaper of the College publishing stories and information regarding trustee meetings, faculty and teachers, alumni reunions, programs, addresses and speeches, and promotions of the school.
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1886-1899
Berea College Utilities
Collection
Identifier: RG 05-5.22
Scope and Contents
Records of the Berea College Utilitilies Department inlcuding Waterworks and Heat and Power.
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1902-2005
Berea Community Collection
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: BCA 0181-HC 06
Abstract
The Berea Community Collection is comprised of archival materials collected by college librarians as a part of the Berea City Vertical Files. This collection, with its wealth of local history, was removed from the vertical files in order to further preserve and arrange the materials as a working collection.
Background information and local history have been preserved in the form of business ledgers, organizational minutes, correspondence, newspaper clippings, audio recorded...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: Majority of material found within 1810 - 1964
Berea Evangelist
Collection
Identifier: RG 12-12.23
Scope and Contents
A monthly "religious paper representing Evangelical Christianity, as opposed to all divisions among Christians, and as inconsistent with all oath-bound secret combinations and oll other forms of evil, whether popular or otherwise." Edited by Elders John G. Fee and J.F. Browne, Berea, Kentucky, and H.H. Hinman, Washington, D.C.
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1885-1887
Berea Publishing Company
Collection
Identifier: RG 13-13.32
Abstract
The Berea Publishing Company (one time publisher of the Berea Citizen) was incorporated in the state of Kentucky on November 18th, 1904. The three original stokeholders were Louis Hinman, William G. Frost, and B.E. Cartmell, all of Berea. The first President of the corporation was William G. Frost.
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1904-1954
Berea/Richmond and Beyond Unidentified WWI Era Photograph Album
Collection — 1
Identifier: BCA 0235 HC 60
Abstract
The album is, unfortunately, unidentified at present. Although most photographs are “labeled” with personal notes, some with names, there is no indication of the name of the owner, specific dates, or full names of most people pictured. However, photographs clearly show a female student who attended both the Berea Academy and the Teacher’s College in Richmond, spent time serving in Europe during WWI, followed by what can be assumed as time teaching in Pennsylvania. The clothing and other...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1916-1919
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- Collection 62
- Digital Record 1
- Subject
- Berea (Ky.) 58
- Students, college -- Berea College 15
- Appalachian Region. 8
- Education, higher -- Administration 7
- Berea (Ky.) -- Race relations. 6
- Madison County (Ky.) -- History. 6
- Abolitionists 4
- Appalachian Region, Southern -- Study and teaching (Higher) -- History -- 20th century. 4
- Antislavery movements -- Kentucky. 3
- Antislavery movements -- United States -- History -- 19th century -- Sources. 3
- Appalachian Region, Southern -- History. 3
- Berea (Ky.) -- Newspapers. 3
- Berea College -- Affiliated Schools -- Academy School 3
- Kentucky -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century. 3
- Oral history -- Appalachian region. 3
- African American history. 2
- African Americans -- Appalachian Region. 2
- African Americans -- Education -- Kentucky. 2
- African Americans. 2
- Appalachian Region -- Race relations. 2
- Appalachian Region -- Social conditions -- History. 2
- Berea (Ky.) -- History. 2
- Education, Higher -- Appalachian Region -- History. 2
- Folk dancing. 2
- Hand weaving -- Appalachian Region -- History. 2
- Hand weaving. 2
- Handweaving -- Patterns. 2
- Kentucky Day Law. 2
- Madison County (Ky.) -- Newspapers. 2
- Minorities -- Education -- United States. 2
- Oral history -- Berea College (Ky). 2
- Oral history interview. 2
- Oral history. 2
- Students -- Political activity. 2
- Students -- Societies, etc. 2
- Students, Afro-American -- Berea College 2
- Women college students 2
- Abolitionists -- Kentucky -- Biography 1
- African American women. 1
- African Americans -- Appalachian Region -- History. 1
- African Americans -- Civil rights -- History -- 20th century. 1
- African Americans -- Segregation. 1
- American poetry. 1
- Appalachia -- Description and travel. 1
- Appalachian Region -- Church history. 1
- Appalachian Region -- Demography. 1
- Appalachian Region -- Economic Conditions. 1
- Appalachian Region -- Economic conditions -- History. 1
- Appalachian Region -- History 1
- Appalachian Region -- Social life and customs. 1
- Appalachian Region, Southern -- Study and teaching. 1
- Appalachian Region, Southern. 1
- Basketwork -- Appalachian Region. 1
- Berea (Ky.) -- Genealogy. 1
- Berea College -- Berea College Faculty Club 1
- Berea College -- Buildings -- Fairchild Hall 1
- Berea College -- Buildings -- Howard Hall 1
- Bluegrass music. 1
- Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) -- Churches, Presbyterian 1
- Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) -- Marriage records 1
- Buffalo Creek (W. Va.) -- Flood, 1972. 1
- Canada -- Clergy, Baptist. 1
- Cemeteries--Kentucky--Madison County. 1
- China -- Description and travel. 1
- China -- Education. 1
- China -- Missionaries. 1
- China -- Politics. 1
- Churches, Presbyterian -- Bedford Presbyterian Church. 1
- Civil rights -- Madison County (Ky). 1
- Civil rights movements -- Kentucky -- History -- 20th century. 1
- Clergy, Presbyterian -- Sermons. 1
- College and school drama. 1
- College integration -- Kentucky -- Berea -- History -- 19th century. 1
- Day Law (Kentucky). 1
- Debates and debating. 1
- Disarmament. 1
- Distilling, Illicit. 1
- Education -- Curricula. 1
- Education -- Kentucky -- History. 1
- Education -- Study and teaching 1
- Education, Higher -- Segregation. 1
- Education, higher -- Afro-Americans. 1
- Fiddle tunes -- Appalachian Region. 1
- Fiddle tunes. 1
- Folk and music festivals. 1
- Folk music -- Appalachian Region. 1
- Freedmen -- Kentucky. 1
- Handicraft. 1
- Home economics -- Study and teaching. 1
- Indian Fort Theatre 1
- Integration -- Berea College. 1
- Kentucky -- Education -- History. 1
- Kentucky -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Drama. 1
- Librarians. 1
- Literacy programs -- United States -- Handbooks, manuals, etc. 1
- Literacy programs. 1
- Madison County (Ky.) -- Genealogy. 1
- Military installations -- World War I. 1
- Mountain Folk Festival. 1
- Music -- Appalachian Region. 1 + ∧ less
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