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Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: BCA 0211 HC 36
Abstract
A collection of World War II photographs, including scenes at Buchenwald the day after liberation, and other items compiled by Charles Guest, a Berea graduate and army chaplain during the war.
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: Majority of material found within 1930 - 1945
File — Case: Map case 1, Drawer 7
Identifier: 9667
Scope and Contents
A promtional poster for the May 25, 1968 Appalachian People's Meeting in Charleston, West Virginia. The event was sponsored by Community Action Federation and included workshops on ADCU, welfare, taxes, roads, elections, education, and youth. A 2012 donation letter accompanies the poster.
Dates:
1968
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: BCA 0205 HC 30
Abstract
Joseph T. Gray worked with Appalshop in Whitesburg, Kentucky, making documentaries, until he decided to work independently. While living in Somerset, Kentucky, he sought funding to produce a documentary on the question of how to dispose of deteriorating chemical weapons stored at the Army's Bluegrass Depot in Madison County, Kentucky. Although he followed the hearings and shot raw footage of interviews, etc., he never received the funding he needed to edit and produce a documentary on the...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1970-1993; Other: Majority of material found in 1985-1991; Other: Date acquired: 01/01/1993
Collection
Identifier: RG 06-6.17
Abstract
Records of the Berea College Chemistry Department.
Dates:
Other: Majority of material found within 1985-2008
Collection
Identifier: RG 09-9.07
Abstract
Papers of Isham B. Chesnut, Berea College Forester (1918-1927).
Dates:
Other: Majority of material found within 1875-1932
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: BCA 0111 SAA 111
Abstract
Chester Young was born July 2, 1920 in rural Adair County, Kentucky to parents Joseph and Sarah Young and moved to Columbia, Kentucky at the age of three. During his childhood, Young was a member of Columbia Baptist Church, the Royal Ambassadors and the Boys Scouts, later becoming a Scoutmaster and a Star Scout.Young graduated from Columbia High School in 1938, then graduated from Lindsey Wilson College in 1940, received his B.A. from Berea College in 1943 and briefly attended...
Dates:
Other: Majority of material found in 1931-1998; Other: Date acquired: 07/00/1996
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: BCA 0080 -SAA 080
Abstract
The Ancil Gatliff family papers document the life of Kentucky physician, philanthopist, and businessman Dr. Ancil Gatliff (1850-1918). The collection also includes materials on members of his immediate family and correspondence with Proctor Coal Company manager J. L. Boyd.
Dates:
1887 - 1987
Collection
Identifier: RG 06-6.25
Abstract
Records of the Child and Family Studies Program (previously known as the Home Economics Department) at Berea College.
Dates:
Other: Majority of material found in 1948-2006
Collection
Identifier: RG 11-11.01
Abstract
Children of God: An Oratorio on the Brotherhood of Man is a major choral work commissioned in 1956 by Berea College and the National Council of Churches of Christ in the United States of America (NCC). A specially created Berea College Oratorio Choir first performed the work the following year in two significant events: Part I only was presented on both Feb. 1 and 2, 1957 at the Cincinnati Music Hall,with the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra and guest soloists, Thor Johnson conducting. The...
Dates:
Other: Majority of material found in 1953-1980
Collection
Identifier: RG 13-13.20
Abstract
Olivia Phelps Stokes gifted to the College ten chimes (Meneely Bells) in honor of President William Goodell Frost’s 25th year at Berea College. The bells were fabricated in New York and the large "F" bell is inscribed: "These bells commemorate the 25th year of William Goodell Frost's Presidency of Berea College and his unfailing, self-sacrificing devotion to the College and its interests."
Installed in Phelp Stokes Chapel in 1917, it was hoped that the chimes could be...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1917-
