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Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: BCA 0291
Abstract
The collection of maps comprises a variety of manuscript and printed scientific, transportation, and political maps that were created between 1793 and 1996. These items were collected by the Berea College geology department and campus libraries over the course of many decades. Most maps not associated with the geology department have no specific provenance data. The collection also includes a few manuscript maps and drawings. Items of special interest include older maps (1790s-1830s) and...
Dates:
1793-1996
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: BCA 0310
Abstract
The collection on Daniel J. Ransohoff comprises a group of large social work posters, a Christian Appalachian Project calendar and a book about community social services in the Cincinnati, Ohio, area. These materials shed light on Ransohoff's photography, community activism, and work among Appalachians.
Dates:
1961 - 1973
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: BCA 0051-SAA 051
Abstract
This small collection comprises documents and images relating to the life and writings of Harriette Simpson Arnow (1908-1986).
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1936 - 1992
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: BCA 0303
Abstract
The Berea College collection on John F. Kennedy and family preserves resources for the study of president Kennedy's term in office and legacy. Item formats include small books, magazines, newspapers and newspaper clippings, images, ephemera, and a few pieces of Floyd Emerson Siderell correspondence.
Dates:
1960 -1972
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: BCA 0312
Abstract
This study collection is a gathering of printed book leaves, page fragments and broadsides from the handpress era (1451-1820) and from later handpress revivals. These resources may be of interest to persons studying book history, the history of printing, typography, languages, literature and design.
Dates:
Publication: 1460 - 1971; Majority of material found within 1460 - 1611
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: BCA 0199- HC 24
Abstract
The Captain James C. West Post was organized on May 24, 1890 to aid and commemorate Civil War veterans who served in the Union Army. The group met monthly and performed many community duties including memorial services for the dead, and help for needy widows and families of those who fought during the Civil War.
The Captain James West Women's Relief Corps No. 48 auxiliary was organized on March 17, 1906. Closely linked to the Captain James West Post No. 171, the women's auxiliary carried...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1883 - 1936
Collection
Identifier: RG 06-6.01
Abstract
Official records of the Berea College, Academy, and Foundation faculty including meeting minutes and agendas, curriculum reviews and committee notes, reports, memoranduc, and general faculty information.
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1868 -
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: BCA 0308
Abstract
The Combs family papers record data about the business and personal affairs of an Owsley County, Kentucky family during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Most materials are Combs family documents prior to 1930.
Dates:
1849 - 1970
Collection
Identifier: RG 11-11.15
Abstract
Materials and records regarding Berea College commencement ceremonies including graduate lists, notices, clippings, commencement and baccalaureate programs, and audio-visual recordings.
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1858-
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: RG 10-10.29
Abstract
On Thursday, March 25, 1965, fifty-eight Berea College student, faculty and staff joined 25,000 other demonstrators in the last phase of the March on Montgomery from Selma, Alabama. The trip made by students and other members of the college was neither officially recognized by the College or endorsed by the Student Association Senate.
Berea's participation in the march was organized by a committee of students which organized in response to a controversial letter from the Associate Dean of...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1965-1989; Other: Majority of material found in 1965
