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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...
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translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: Majority of material found within 1810 - 1964
E.O. Robinson Mountain Fund Records
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: BCA 0021 SAA 020
Abstract
The E.O. Robinson Mountain Fund was incorporated June 27, 1922, by Edward O. Robinson, Frederick W. Mowbray, Edward C. O'Rear, and W.H. Hyden. That year Robinson had retired from the presidency of the Mowbray-Robinson Lumber Company in Cincinnati, where he had made a fortune in the World War I lumber boom.
Robinson and Mowbray entered the lumber business in 1908 with the purchase of approximately 16,000 acres of timberland in eastern Kentucky's Breathitt, Knott, and Perry counties. ...
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translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1922-1978
Extension Services Records
Collection
Identifier: RG 06-6.45
Abstract
Berea College's Extension Services provided short-term, informal educational programming and services, primarily in adult education, both on and off campus, to persons living in communities around Berea (including the mountain regions as far away as West Virginia). Programming included Opportunity Schools (held both on campus and in other communities), lectures, and the publication of pamphlets, bulletins and leaflets on a variety of topics.
Information regarding the Berea Opportunity...
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Other: Majority of material found in 1898-1958
J.O. Van Hook Papers
Collection
Identifier: RG 09-9.51
Abstract
Joseph O. Van Hook was raised in Pulaski County, Kentucky and began teaching in a one-room school house in 1909. He came to Berea in 1910 and earned two diplomas from the Normal School. He served as an Army corporal during World War I and spent four years following the war teaching in China at the Shanghai American School (1921-1925). He then returned to Berea College, earning three Bachelor of Arts degrees by 1926. He also earned a Master of Arts degree from the University of Kentucky in...
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translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1855 - 1985; Other: Majority of material found in 1958
News Bureau Vertical Files
Collection
Identifier: RG 05-5.23VF
Abstract
News releases, articles and write ups of the Berea College News Bureau.
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Other: Majority of material found in 1965-1979
Pine Mountain (Kentucky) Community Study Records
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: BCA 0023 SAA 022
Abstract
The study was proposed in 1949 by Berea College president, Francis S. Hutchins, then a trustee of Pine Mountain Settlement School. The school's boarding high school had closed that year and elementary programs merged with the Harlan County school system. It was concluded that a socio-economic study of the area would be useful in identifying possible new areas of service for the school to pursue. Giffin's study was never published in its entirety, though he did use data from the study to...
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translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1948-1965
Pine Mountain Settlement School Collection
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: BCA 0011 SAA 010
Abstract
Pine Mountain Settlement School was founded in 1913, by Katherine Pettit and Ethel de Long. The two women received ninety-five acres of land from William Creech for the purpose of providing educational opportunities for the people of the Pine Mountain area of Harlan County, Kentucky.
Petit and de Long modeled their program after Jane Adam’s Hull House in Chicago. They hoped that their modern ideas about health, nutrition, work efficiency, farm management, and the cultural value of...
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translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1913-2011
Wilderness Road Drama Collection
Collection
Identifier: RG 11-11.04
Abstract
Wilderness Road, an outdoor symphonic drama, was commissioned by Berea College to help commemorate the school’s centennial celebration in the summer of 1955. The drama was written by Pulitzer prize-winning author, Paul Green, who also authored The Common Glory, The Lost Colony, and The Stephen Foster Story. Green received the Freedom Foundation’s George...
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Other: Majority of material found in 1942-1980
William Eleazar Barton Papers
Collection
Identifier: RG 09-9.04
Abstract
William E. Barton attended Berea College from 1880 to 1885 (B.S.) and married Esther Treat Bushnell—a Berea elementary teacher—upon graduation from college. Barton was a circuit pastor in Robbins, Tennessee, until 1887. From 1887 through 1890 Barton was a pastor in Litchfield, Ohio, while taking courses at Oberlin Theological School. Upon graduation from Oberlin (M.A.), Barton pastored at Wellington, Ohio, and Boston’s Shawmut Congregational Church. From 1899 until 1924, Barton was the...
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translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1885-1976; Other: Majority of material found in 1895–1925