Berea College
Organization
Found in 363 Collections and/or Records:
Joyce Hannan Berea Community Oral History Collection
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: BCA 0259
Scope and Contents
Thirty-one oral history interviews with Berea residents recorded by Joyce Hannan mostly during 1978 in connection with the Country's 200th birthday celebration. Also included is a 1983 WEKU radio program that included Berea and other Madison County residents discussing the Nuclear Weapons Freeze Campaign. Persons interviewed are Luther A. Ambrose,
Mrs Perly Ayer,
Wayne Balinger,
Gary Barker,
Ellen Evans,
Sidney Farr,
Duffy Ford,
Clinton C. Hensley,
Rolf Hovey,
Francis...
Dates:
Other: Majority of material found in 1978; Other: Date acquired: 06/24/1994
Katherine Jackson French Ballad Collection
Collection — Box 1: Series 1; Series 2; Series 3; Series Series 4
Identifier: BCA 0005-SAA 004
Abstract
Katherine Jackson French was influenced to collect mountain ballads through friends who had attended a lecture—in 1905—at which two instructors from Berea College, Kentucky, spoke about the uncollected ballads in the mountains of Kentucky. She was writing her dissertation at Columbia University at the time and she delayed investigating the matter of collecting mountain ballads until 1909 when she returned to London, Kentucky, to attend her mother who was ill. On at least two occasions in...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1909-1916
Kentucky - West Virginia Fiddle Tune Transcriptions
Collection
Identifier: BCA 0267
Abstract
These are fiddle tune transcriptions produced by three traditional music scholars whose Berea based research projects were supported by the Berea College Sound Archives Fellowship Program during 2006 and 2008
Erynn Marshall focused mainly on eastern Kentucky fiddle styles and song traditions in a similar way to her 1998 research conducted in West Virginia.
In his transcriptions of tunes by several Kentucky fiddlers, Alan Jabbour paid particular attention to unison notes, a culturally...
Dates:
Other: Dummy Date
John Kessler papers
Collection
Identifier: RG 09-9.30
Abstract
Papers of John Kessler, commanding officer of the V-12 officer training school unit at Berea College during WWII.
Dates:
Other: Majority of material found in 1980-1998
Thomas Kreider papers
Collection
Identifier: RG 09-9.31
Abstract
Personal papers of Thomas Kreider including both personal and professional correspondence and records of his work at Berea College.
Dates:
Other: Majority of material found in 1954-1986
Labor Day
Collection
Identifier: RG 11-11.13
Abstract
Records regarding Berea College's Labor Day, 1923- .
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1923-
Labor Program Council
Collection
Identifier: RG 10-10.36
Abstract
The Labor Program Council advises and assists the Dean of Labor in interpreting and applying the vision for the Student Labor Program. It has comprehensive responsibility for major programmatic changes that affect experiential, non-credit learning in the Labor Program, with specific responsibility regarding labor evaluation, assessment of goals and outcomes, and recommendations for improvements to the program as a result of analyzing assessment data. The Council receives proposals from the...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1975-2004
Labor Program Office
Collection
Identifier: RG 05-5.24
Abstract
Records of the Berea College Labor Program Office.
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1893
Ladies Board of Care
Collection
Identifier: RG 05-5.36
Abstract
In 1866, the Berea College Board of Trustees appointed a Ladies Board of Care (though no explicit authority or budget accompanied the appointment). The goal of the Ladies Board of Care was to protect the college from negative publicity and it achieved this by writing regulations and meting out punishments on all infractions relating to female students. It also focused on teaching the women of the college appropriate etiquette, monitored social privileges of the women in the boarding hall,...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1866-1903
Sarah Alice Snider Lambert photograph collection
Collection
Identifier: RG 08-8.18
Abstract
Collection of photograpsh by Sarah Alice Snider Lambreth.
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1926-1930
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- Type
- Collection 351
- Digital Record 6
- Unprocessed Material 3
- Archival Object 3
- Subject
- Students, college -- Berea College 81
- Berea (Ky.) 58
- Education, higher -- Administration 48
- Appalachian Region. 21
- Berea College -- Affiliated Schools -- Academy School 11
- Oral history. 9
- Madison County (Ky.) -- History. 8
- Oral history -- Berea College (Ky). 8
- Oral history interview. 8
- Berea College 7
- Abolitionists 6
- Berea (Ky.) -- Race relations. 6
- Oral history -- Appalachian region. 6
- Antislavery movements -- United States -- History -- 19th century -- Sources. 5
- Science -- Study and Teaching 5
- African Americans -- Education -- Kentucky. 4
- Appalachian Region -- Economic Conditions. 4
- Appalachian Region, Southern -- History. 4
- Appalachian Region, Southern -- Study and teaching (Higher) -- History -- 20th century. 4
- Kentucky Day Law. 4
- Students -- Societies, etc. 4
- Students, Afro-American -- Berea College 4
- African American history. 3
- African Americans -- Appalachian Region. 3
- Antislavery movements -- Kentucky. 3
- Appalachian Region -- Race relations. 3
- Appalachian Region -- Social conditions -- History. 3
- Appalachian Region, Southern -- Study and teaching. 3
- Art -- Study and teaching. 3
- Berea (Ky.) -- Newspapers. 3
- Berea College -- Academic Vice President 3
- Education, Higher -- Appalachian Region -- History. 3
- Hand weaving -- Appalachian Region -- History. 3
- Hand weaving. 3
- Industrial arts -- Study and teaching. 3
- Kentucky -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century. 3
- Navy V-12 Program (U.S.). 3
- Rural schools -- Kentucky -- History. 3
- Students, Foreign. 3
- Temperance. 3
- United States -- Race relations -- History -- 19th century -- Sources. 3
- Abolitionists -- Correspondence 2
- Adult education 2
- African Americans -- Appalachian Region -- History. 2
- African Americans -- Civil rights. 2
- African Americans. 2
- American poetry. 2
- Appalachia -- Education. 2
- Appalachian Region -- Social life and customs. 2
- Appalachian Region, Southern -- Periodicals. 2
- Appalachian Region, Southern -- Social life and customs. 2
- Appalachian Region, Southern. 2
- Basketball -- Kentucky -- Berea. 2
- Berea (Ky.) -- History. 2
- Civil rights movements. 2
- College students -- Research. 2
- Computer programming. 2
- Day Law (Kentucky). 2
- Debates and debating. 2
- Drama -- Production and direction. 2
- Education -- Curricula. 2
- Education -- Kentucky -- Harlan County 2
- Education -- Kentucky -- History. 2
- Education -- Study and teaching 2
- Folk and music festivals. 2
- Folk art -- Appalachian Region, Southern. 2
- Folk dancing. 2
- Folk music -- Appalachian Region. 2
- Geography -- Study and teaching. 2
- Geography. 2
- Geology -- Study and teaching. 2
- Geology. 2
- Goodell, Clarissa Cady. 2
- Handweaving -- Patterns. 2
- Home economics -- Study and teaching. 2
- Latin language -- Study and teaching. 2
- Librarians. 2
- Madison County (Ky.) -- Newspapers. 2
- Maps. 2
- Mathematics -- Study and teaching. 2
- Medical care -- Kentucky. 2
- Minorities -- Education -- United States. 2
- Music -- Appalachian Region. 2
- Music -- Instruction and study. 2
- Oratory -- Competitions. 2
- Philosophy and religion. 2
- Physical education and training -- Study and teaching (Higher). 2
- Pine Mountain Settlement School (Pine Mountain, Ky.) 2
- Religion. 2
- Sociology. 2
- Southern States -- Race relations. 2
- Student activities. 2
- Student government. 2
- Student handbook 2
- Students -- Political activity. 2
- Students, Foreign -- Kentucky -- Berea. 2
- Teacher -- Training of 2
- Universities and colleges -- Finance. 2
- Women -- Appalachian Region. 2
- Women -- Education (Higher). 2 + ∧ less
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