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Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: BCA 0288
Abstract
This collection comprises 25 printed items: 23 historic maps and 2 rare book leaves from the private collection of Bob Rodriguez.
Dates:
1847-1911; 1493-1497
Collection
Identifier: RG 08-8.04
Abstract
This collection is comprised of publications of geologist and Berea College graduate Samuel Whittemore Boggs.
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translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1915-1951
Collection
Identifier: RG 05-5.04
Abstract
Historic Boone Tavern was built in 1909 at the suggestion of Nellie Frost, wife of Berea College president, William G. Frost. Named for Appalachian hero Daniel Boone has hosted visitors of Berea, Kentucky including the Dalai Lama, Henry Ford, President and Mrs. Calvin Coolidge, Eleanor Roosevelt, Maya Angelou, and Robert Frost.
Construction of Boone Tavern began in 1909 based on designs by the New York architectural firm of Cady & See at a cost of $20,000. The building, made of bricks...
Dates:
Other: Majority of material found in 1912-2014
Collection
Identifier: RG 08-8.05
Abstract
Papers of Maud Bowman, 1918 graduate of Berea College.
Dates:
Other: Majority of material found within 1915-1948
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: BCA 0090 SAA 090
Abstract
One hundred seventy-four (174) audio field recordings (1970s-1990s) of interviews and performances that document the repertoire and playing styles of several dozen Kentucky fiddlers, mainly from the state's southern and southeastern regions.Listen To Selected Performances in the Digital Library of...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1970-1990
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: BCA 0167 SAA 169
Abstract
This collection contains over 45,500 images/photographs (dated from 1953) of Warren Brunner’s work.
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1953 - 2003
Collection
Identifier: RG 06-6.12.4
Abstract
These are the official records of the Brushy Fork Institute.
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1988-
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: BCA 0045-SAA 045
Abstract
This collection consists of photographs and microfilmed records documenting the establishment and operation of Buckhorn Children's Center and its predecessor institutions, Witherspoon College and Presbyterian Child Welfare Agency, located in Perry County, Ky. Selected Records 1874-1979; Selected Photographs 1900-1980.
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1874-1980
Collection — Container: 1
Identifier: BCA 0094 SAA 094
Abstract
Sixteen audio recordings of interviews, reminiscences, speeches, and alumni events relating to former Buckhorn School students and staff. They were mainly from the early to mid 1900s when the Perry County, Kentucky, school was known as Witherspoon College. The recordings were made by 1941 graduate Mike Duff. Also are six interviews with Custer Reynolds recorded in 2002 by Buckhorn graduate Jim Moore.
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1977-2002; Other: Date acquired: 00/00/1989
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: BCA 0054 SAA 054
Abstract
Kazee was born August 29, 1900 in the quite rural Burton Fork area of Magoffin County, Kentucky. Baptist Christianity, home made music, and classical commercial recordings were important influences in Kazee’s upbringing. He was singing and playing banjo by age 5 and was ordained to preach at age 17.
After finishing high school at Magoffin Baptist Institute, he went on to Georgetown College to major in English, Greek, and Latin, and study voice. There he came to a stronger appreciation of...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1946-1979
