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Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: BCA 0113 SAA 113
Abstract
A sociologist by training, Alan J. Crain taught at Allegheny College in western Pennsylvania. During the 1970s, he developed an ongoing interest in southeastern Kentucky through the Appalachian Semester at Union College in Barbourville. This was a summer-long program that introduced students to the culture and traditions of Knox County and the surrounding area. Over a period of about ten years he made extended visits to Knox County, at times living in homes of residents of the Trosper...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1975-1982
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.
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Other: Majority of material found in 1980 - 2005
Item — Container: Map case 1, drawer 7, Folder: 9676
Identifier: 9676
Abstract
Large format folio of news clippings regarding the Scotia Coal Co. disaster of 1976 as reported by the Courier-Journal and the Louisville Times. A letter of explanation by Michael J. Davies accompanies the item, which was submitted to the Appalachian Center at Berea College as an entry for the Weatherford Award competition.
Dates:
1976
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: BCA 0110 SAA 110
Scope and Contents
This collection is comprised of recorded interviews with transcripts relating to the work of the Council of the Southern Mountains (CSM) during the period 1970-1989. Interviewees include the former CSM executive director, other staff, board members, and elected officers.Listen To interview recordings and / or read transcripts
The interviews...
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translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 2004-2005
Collection
Identifier: BCA 0060 SAA 060
Abstract
Materials regarding Harlan County, Kentucky, and the ongoing struggle that occurred for over forty years following the big coal boom of the early 1900s.
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translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1931-1983
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: BCA 0020 SAA 019
Abstract
Papers and records of Willard Rouse Jillson (1890-1975) who served as Kentucky State Geologist from 1919 to 1932.
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translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1898-1978
Collection — Container: 1
Identifier: BCA 0033 SAA 031
Abstract
The Ohio and Kentucky Railway was created and owned by the Kentucky Block Cannel Coal Company, a corporation that had leased about 5400 acres of cannel coal land adjacent to Caney, Morgan County (Kentucky). Construction of the railroad began in 1899 at the O. & K. Junction, one mile west of Jackson in Breathitt County, and continuing 26 miles to Cannel City in Morgan County, completion of this section being accomplished in 1901. Both freight and passenger runs were made, as well as...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1899-1900
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: BCA 0271
Abstract
During his career as a journalist Phil Primack covered public policy, politics, and the economy for numerous news outlets, including The New York Times, the Boston Globe, Commonwealth, Boston, and Columbia Journalism Review. The Phil Primack Collection contains numerous photographs, most of them taken while Primack worked as a...
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translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1964-2000
