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Carlos Cortez Coyle Papers
Collection
Identifier: RG 08-8.30
Abstract
Carlos Cortez Coyle (1871-1962) was a self-taught painter who spent the early part of his life in Dreyfus, Kentucky. In 1889, he briefly attended Berea Foundation School where he was introduced to Appalachian arts and crafts through teacher and Director of Fireside Industries Jennie Lester Hill. Coyle left Berea before graduating for reasons unknown and moved to Florida and then to Canada in an attempt to make a living in farming. Drought caused him to make a career change into the building...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1921-1942
Carr Creek Oral History Project
Collection
Identifier: BCA 0292
Abstract
The Carr Fork dam was constructed by the Louisville District of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. It is located 8.8 miles above the mouth of Carr Fork, a tributary of the North Fork of the Kentucky River. It was created to mitigate flooding along the North Fork of the Kentucky River, improve water quality, and provide public recreation.
The project was completed in 1976, resulting in a 710-acre reservoir presently called Carr Creek Lake. Many families were displaced during the project’s...
Dates:
2022-2023
Carter G. Woodson Center for Interracial Education
Collection
Identifier: RG 05-5.57
Abstract
In 2011, the Berea College Board of Trustees authorized the establishment of the Carter G. Woodson Center for Interracial Education. In keeping with the desires of the Board of Trustees and the mission of Berea College founders, it is the goal of the Center to strive to align external campus norms with the College’s internal and historic commitment to interracial education so they function in a mutually supportive manner. It is therefore the mission of the Carter G. Woodson Center for...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 2013-
Carter G. Woodson Collection
Collection
Identifier: RG 08-8.27
Scope and Contents
This collection is comprised of materials collected by Hutchins Library staff regarding the life and work of Carter G. Woodson. The collection contains clippings, publications, Berea College news releases, copies of academic records, letters and exhibit items.
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1922-2004
Cash Gospel Quartet Collection
Collection — Container: 1
Identifier: BCA 0109 SAA 109
Abstract
This collection documents the radio performing career of the Cash Quartet from Rockcastle County, Kentucky during the 1950-1960s. The collection consists of radio program sound recordings, written program song lists, published song books, photographs, and printed personal appearance programs.
The Cash Quartet was formed by Walter Cash (1929- ) around 1956 in the Ottawa community of southern Rockcastle County, Kentucky. Other members were his wife Reba (1937- ); sister, Joanne (1936- ); and...
Dates:
Other: Majority of material found in 1959-1961; Other: Date acquired: 08/31/2007
Cassius Marcellus Clay Collection
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: BCA 0218 HC 02
Abstract
Collection of materials by and about Cassius M. Clay.
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1849 - 1975
Catawba Sanatorium Collection
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: BCA 0097 SAA 097
Abstract
The Catawba Sanatorium, founded in Virginia in 1908, was a public institution for the treatment of tuberculosis. It was known as one of the most organized and best equipped institutions of its kind. W.W. Baker, born October 20, 1844, founded the sanatorium after he experienced the disease himself. He introduced a bill passed by the Virginia General Assembly in 1908 that made the sanatorium a possibility. Apparently many contented patients stayed at Catawba. Visitors commented on the cheerful...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1913-1935
Cecelia Kunath Schutte Papers
Collection
Identifier: RG 08-8.25
Abstract
Cecelia ("Peggy") Kunath graduated from the Foundation School in 1918 atteded the College's Academy from 1918 to 1919. Born in Alpena, Michigan, Peggy would marry Herbert Schutte in 1926 and lived her adult life in the Detroit area.
Dates:
Other: Majority of material found in 1916; Other: Date acquired: 10/30/1998
Celebration of Traditional Music
Collection — Container: 6.12 Oversized Posters
Identifier: RG 06-6.12.5
Abstract
Records documenting the Celebration of Traditional Music, an annual event striving to represent homemade music passed on from person to person in the Appalachian Region and the musicians who play it.
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1974 -
Celebration of Traditional Music Recordings, 1974-
Collection
Identifier: RG 06-6.12.5 R
Abstract
Berea College's Celebration of Traditional Music is an annual event striving to represent homemade music passed on from person to person in the Appalachian Region and the musicians who play it.
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1974-2018