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"A Bluegrass Hornbook" (history of Bluegrass music) 1976 Public Radio Program Series.

 Collection — Container: 1
Identifier: ##6jp
Scope and Contents

Programs trace Bluegrass Music history up to 1976 with comentary, interiews, and performances including early string bands, brother duettes, Carter Family, Bill Monroe, Stanley Brothers, Don Reno, Osborne Brothers, Country Gentlemen, and McReynold Brothers.

Listen To Programs

Dates: Other: Date acquired: 07/06/2017

A Map of the Appalachian Region

 Item — Container: Map case 1, drawer 8, Folder: 9671
Identifier: 9671 item 3
Content Description

A pictorial map of the Appalachian Region "showing localities of historic interest, places of natural beauty and wonder, and public highroads thereto" by Clarence Kearfott. The map covers parts of Kentucky, West Virginia, Virginia, Tennessee and North Carolina and has a detailed border depicting historical scenes and events from the early settlements of the region during the 18th and 19th centuries.

Dates: Copyright: 1950

A.A. Burleigh Papers

 Collection
Identifier: RG 08-8.06
Scope and Contents

These are the papers of A.A. Burleigh, one of the first African Americans to attend and graduate from Berea College.  Materials include biographical information, correspondence, pension applications, medical and death records, and additional print material.

Dates: translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1867-1938

Abraham Lincoln Collection

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: BCA 0203 HC 28
Abstract Since its reopening following the Civil War, Berea College has been closely associated with the enduring legacy of President Abraham Lincoln.  As written in 1991 by Gerald F. Roberts, former Director of Special Collections & Archives: Founded as an anti-slavery institution in the late 1850s, Berea… led the way in interracial education… [and] by the turn of the century fostered a growing association with Lincoln’s name.  In those years, Lincoln was claimed as a great example for Berea...
Dates: translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1857-1989

A.C. Bailey Singing and Commentary

 Collection
Identifier: BCA 0289
Scope and Contents WAV audio file of self recorded commentary and singing by A.C. (Arnold Cooper) Bailey. It was donated by his son Arnold Chipper Bailey who says many of the songs were written by his father. Arnold donated the WAV file 12-12-2022. The original Cassette was donated to the East Tennessee State University Archives of Appalachia in 1998. Listen to...
Dates: Undated

Academic Program Council (APC)

 Collection
Identifier: RG 10-10.13
Abstract The Academic Program Council has comprehensive responsibility for the academic program, with specific responsibilities for curriculum, policy development, and general oversight of practices and services affecting the academic program. The Council may elect to delegate certain specific responsibilities to subcommittees or members, but all decisions with policy implications will be brought before the entire Council. The Council receives proposals from academic divisions, core course planning...
Dates: translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1994-2007

Academy School

 Collection
Identifier: RG 06-6.03
Abstract

Created as an affiliated school of Berea College, the Academy served as a Senior High School. In 1938, reorganization abolishes the Academy by adding the ninth and tenth grades to the Foundation School, thus creating the Lower Division (Grades 11-12, College Freshman and Sophomore years) and Upper Division (College Junior and Senior years) to the College.

Dates: translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1895 -

Accreditation Reports and Studies

 Collection
Identifier: RG 10-10.28
Scope and Contents

This collection is comprised of self-studies and reports undertaken by Berea College and its various academic and administrative departments in accordance with accreditating associations. Supporting materials such as memorandum and correspondence of committees are also included in this collection.

Dates: translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1921-2006

Actors Theatre of Louisville—Humana Play Festival Scripts Collection

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: BCA 0232 HC 57
Scope and Contents

Scripts included in the collection represent submissions and final revisions of works performed or considered by the Actors Theatre between 1981 and 1995.

Dates: translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1981-1985

Ada May Dinkleman Scrapbook

 Collection
Identifier: RG 09-9.64
Abstract

Ada M. Dinkleman was born on May 22, 1881, in Madisonville (Hamilton County), Ohio.  She graduated from Denison in Ohio and taught at Berea from approximately 1908-1911.  in 1912, Dinkleman married Emil Bracker, who had served as the acting superintendent of the College gardens and forests during the same time that Dinkleman was faculty at Berea.  Dinkleman died in January, 1984 in Illinois.

Dates: translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1908-1911

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Fairchild, Edward Henry -- 1815-1889 7
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American Missionary Association. 6
Berea College -- Campus organizations 6
Pine Mountain Settlement School (Pine Mountain, Ky.). 6
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Berea College -- Dean of Women 5
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Weatherford, Willis D. (Willis Duke), -- 1875-1970. 5
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Frontier Nursing Service, Inc. 4
Hutchins, Louise Gilman -- 1911-1996 4
John C. Campbell Folk School. 4
Lincoln Institute (Simpsonville, Ky.). 4
Pettit, Katherine. 4
American Association of University Professors. 3
Appalachian Studies Association. 3
Berea College -- Athletics 3
Berea College -- Berea Country Dancers 3
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Buckhorn Children's Center (Buckhorn, Ky.). 3
Campbell, John C. (John Charles) --1867-1919 3
Campbell, Olive D. (Olive Dame) -- 1882-1954 3
Christmas Country Dance School. 3
Church of Christ, Union (Berea, Ky.). 3
Combs, Josiah Henry -- 1886-1960 3
Drake, Richard B. -- 1925- 3
Frost, Maria Goodell. 3
Green, Paul -- 1894-1981 -- Wilderness road 3
Maloney, Michael E. 3
Obermiller, Phillip J. 3
Red Bird Mission (Beverly, Ky.). 3
Renfro Valley Barn Dance (Radio program) -- History. 3
Rogers, J.A.R. -- (John Almanza Rowley) 3
Shinn, Larry D. -- 1942- 3
Tallmadge, William H. 3
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American Anti-Slavery Society. 2
American Association of University Women. 2
American Friends Service Committee. 2
Annville Institute. 2
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Appalachian Volunteers. 2
Association of American Colleges 2
Ayer, Perley 2
Ball, Norman. 2
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Boone, Daniel -- 1734-1820. 2
Chase, Tom. 2
Clay, Cassius Marcellus -- 1810-1903 2
Country Music Express (Radio program). 2
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