Hutchins Library
Organization
Found in 9 Collections and/or Records:
Appalachian Biographical Vertical Files
Collection
Identifier: BCA 0251
Abstract
This collection of materials with different provenance was assembled and organized by Hutchins Library and Special Collections staff. The collection contains a variety of materials about numerous persons or families with Appalachian connections.
Dates:
Other: Majority of material found in 1968-1995
Appalachian Feuds Collection
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: BCA 0008 SAA 007
Abstract
Material in the collection was compiled over several years by Hutchins Library staff in response to the historical, cultural, and popular interest that feud activity has engendered, especially in Kentucky.
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1898-1977
Appalachian Vertical Files
Collection
Identifier: BCA 0252
Abstract
This collection of materials with different provenance was assembled and organized by Hutchins Library and Special Collections staff. The collection contains a variety of materials on a number of subjects and documents the history, events, customs and social lives of peoples in the Appalachian region of the United States.
Dates:
Other: Majority of material found within 1968-2000
Coal Vertical Files
Collection
Identifier: BCA 0253
Abstract
This collection of materials-with different provenance-was assembled and organized by Hutchins Library and Special Collections staff. The collection contains a variety of materials (including clippings, writings, brochures, publications, and reports) documenting the history and culture of coal mining in the Appalachian region of the United States.
Dates:
Other: Majority of material found in 1980 - 2005
Hutchins Library - Indiana University Folktale Workshop
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: BCA 0245
Abstract
The Hutchins Library - Indiana University Folktale Workshop was a three-week research residency held in Berea July 7-26, 2003. It was sponsored jointly by Berea College, the Folklore Institute at Indiana University, and the Tales Online Project. Participants included students, teachers, storytellers, and researchers. The Primary focus of the study was Berea's Leonard Roberts Folktale Collection.
Activities included archival research, tale transcription of audio recordings, guest speakers,...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 2003
Larry D. Shinn Papers
Collection
Identifier: RG 03-3.08
Abstract
Larry Shinn (born January 16, 1942) served as president of Berea College from 1994 to 2012. Prior to this appointment he was Vice-President of Academic Affairs, Dean of Humanities and Head of the Religious Studies Department at Bucknell University. Shinn also taught at Oberlin College for fourteen years prior to his work at Bucknell. He earned his B.A Degree from Baldwin-Wallace College, his Masters of Divinity from Drew Theological School, and his PhD in the History of Religions from...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1994-2012
William Goodell Frost Papers
Collection
Identifier: RG 03-3.03
Abstract
Frost, a native of LeRoy, New York, was an 1876 graduate of Oberlin College and taught Greek at him alma materfrom 1876 through 1892. Having refused the presidency of Berea College in 1889, Frost reconsidered theappointment after the resignation of William B. Stewart. Frost was inaugurated in 1892 and served as presidentuntil 1920. Frost is credited with being chiefly responsible for the significant growth of Berea College during thisperiod. His term saw enrollment rise from 350 in 1912 to...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1860 - 1955; Other: Majority of material found in 1860-1894
William J. Hutchins Papers
Collection
Identifier: RG 03-3.04
Abstract
Hutchins, born in 1850 and native of Brooklyn, New York, attended Oberlin College, Yale University, and Oberlin Theological Seminary. In 1896 he graduated from Union Theological Seminary and was ordained a Presbyterian minister, receiving his first pastorate at Bedford Church in Brooklyn. Later that same year,Hutchins married Anna Laura Murch of Cleveland (whom he had met at Oberlin).
In 1907, Hutchins was appointed professor of homiletics in the Oberlin Graduate School of Theology. On...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1850 - 1977; Other: Majority of material found within 1900 - 1958
Wilma Dykeman Collection
Collection
Identifier: RG 09-9.16
Abstract
Wilma Dykeman (1920-2006) lived all her life near the French Broad River in the mountains of North Carolina and Tennessee. Born in Asheville, Dykeman traced her interest in writing to the stories her parents read aloud to her when she was a child. By the time she was in elementary school, she was making up her own stories, plays, and poems. After graduating from high school and Biltmore Junior College in Asheville, Dykeman attended Northwestern University and received a bachelor’s degree in...
Dates:
Other: Majority of material found in 1959-1998
Filtered By
- Subject: Appalachian Region. X
Additional filters:
- Subject
- Appalachian Region. 5
- Appalachian Region, Southern -- History. 4
- Appalachian Region, Southern -- Social life and customs. 3
- Appalachian Region, Southern -- Study and teaching (Higher) -- History -- 20th century. 3
- Berea (Ky.) 3
- Education, higher -- Administration 3
- Appalachian Region -- Economic Conditions. 2
- Appalachian Region, Southern. 2
- Appalachians (People). 2
- Education, Higher -- Appalachian Region -- History. 2
- African Americans -- Appalachian Region. 1
- Appalachia -- Description and travel. 1
- Appalachian Region -- Economic conditions -- History. 1
- Appalachian Region -- History 1
- Appalachian Region -- Social conditions -- History. 1
- Appalachian Region, Southern -- Religious life and customs. 1
- Appalachian Regional Commission. 1
- Appalachians (People) -- History. 1
- Baker-White feud. 1
- Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) -- Churches, Presbyterian 1
- Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) -- Marriage records 1
- Callahan-Deaton feud. 1
- Churches, Presbyterian -- Bedford Presbyterian Church. 1
- Clergy, Presbyterian -- Sermons. 1
- Coal Mining 1
- Coal miners -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- United States. 1
- Coal mines and mining -- Appalachian Region 1
- Coal mines and mining -- Safety measures. 1
- Coal trade -- Appalachian Region. 1
- Coal. 1
- Folklore -- Appalachian Region. 1
- Hatfield-McCoy feud. 1
- Kentucky Day Law. 1
- Lungs -- Dust diseases -- Law and legislation -- United States. 1
- Madison County (Ky.) -- History. 1
- Military installations -- World War I. 1
- Miners -- Labor unions. 1
- Mining industry and finance. 1
- Minorities -- Education -- United States. 1
- Oral history -- Appalachian region. 1
- Phipps-McNeil feud. 1
- Rural health -- Appalachian Region. 1
- Storytelling -- Appalachian Region 1
- Strikes, Employee. 1
- Strip mining 1
- Strip mining -- Environmental aspects. 1
- Tolliver-Martin-Logan feud. 1
- Travel, foreign -- Missionaries. 1
- Turner-Sowder feud. 1
- Vendetta -- Appalachian Region. 1
- Vendetta -- Kentucky. 1
- World War, 1914-1918 -- Military life 1
- World War, 1914-1918 -- Personal narratives 1
- World War, 1914-1918 -- Young Men's Christian Association 1 + ∧ less
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