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Currency Collection [Paper Money]
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: BCA 0184 HC 09
Scope and Contents
Representative examples of American currency from 1771 to 1955. Items include Colonial era paper money, Civil War era currency (including Confederate money), as well as twentieth-century silver certificates.
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1771-1955
Curriculum and Curriculum Review Committees
Collection
Identifier: RG 10-10.31
Abstract
The Curriculum Committee was responsible for the academic curriculum and programming of the college, with responsibilities for making recommendations regarding curriculum planning, review of programs, policy development, and general supervision of practices, requirements, and services affecting academic affairs.
The Curriculum Review Committee (1969-1970) was responsible for a thorough review of the College's curriculum and for making recommendations for curricular changes. The review...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1928-1992
D. K. Wilgus Folklore Collection
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: BCA 0067 SAA 067
Abstract
D.K. Wilgus was a native of Columbus, Ohio and earned undergraduate and graduate degrees from Ohio State University (1941-1954). His Anglo-American Folksong Scholarship Since 1898, remains the definitive overview of the history of folksong scholarship in America. Wilgus was the first to plead "hillbilly" music's case for academic respectability. He was a pioneer in the teaching of Anglo-American Folksong as a rigorous academic subject, in...
Dates:
1918-1989; Other: Date acquired: 01/01/1991
Darwin Rush James Collection
Collection — Container: 1
Identifier: BCA 0200 HC 25
Abstract
Darwin Rush James was born 14 May 1834, in Williamsburg, Massachusetts. At age 14, he and his family moved to Brooklyn, New York, where James finished his education and remained for life. He entered the business world as an importer of indigo and spices from the East Indies with the firm of Packard and James, located in nearby Manhattan. On 14 January 1858, James married Mary Fairchild, first cousin to the future presidents of Oberlin (James H. Fairchild, 1866-1889) and Berea College (Edward...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1865-1895
Daughters of the American Revolution -- Berea - Laurel Ridge Chapter Collection
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: BCA 0195 HC 20
Abstract
The Berea-Laurel Ridges Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution, was organized March 22, 1930, with the following members: Mrs. C. H. Burdette, Mrs. R. R. Coyle, Mrs. J. L. Gay, Mrs. W. F. Hays, Mrs. J. M. Kinnard, Mrs. Ellen H. Mitchell, Mrs. Janet M. Murbach, Mrs. I. N. Odell, Mrs. T. J. Osborne, Mrs. J. F. Smith, Mrs. J. W. Stephens, and Miss Grace Wright. Mrs. J. F. Smith was the organizing regent and also the first regent of the chapter.
DAR is a non-profit, nonpolitical,...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1930-2001
Dean of Women
Collection
Identifier: RG 05-5.14
Scope and Contents
Records and materials of the Dean of Women including correspondence of Katharine S, Bowersox (Dean of Women, Alliance Dean of Women 1907-1939), reports, and booklets.
Dates:
Other: Majority of material found in 1910-1972
Deans Committee
Collection
Identifier: RG 10-10.40
Abstract
Committee of Berea College Deans and College Registrar. The committee discussed and made decisions and created policy regarding a variety of matters such as student and campus group requests; registration and scheduling; residence hall and campus life; class, labor, chapel and convocation attendance; rules for men and women; permissions to leave campus; student orientation and advising; leaves of absence, readmissions, and probations; extra-curricular activities and campus events, and...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1949-1977
Deans Committee
Collection
Identifier: RG 10-10.41
Abstract
Committee of Berea College Deans and College Registrar. The committee discussed and made decisions and created policy regarding a variety of academic and campus matters.
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1977-2001
Department of Public Safety
Collection
Identifier: RG 05-5.06
Abstract
Records and materials of the Department of Public Safety including public safety pamphlets, automobile and parking rules and regulations, and reports.
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1947-
Dewey Shepherd Collection
Collection — Container: 1
Identifier: BCA 0140 SAA 140
Abstract
Dewey Shepherd (b. 1905) was a singer and fiddler from Floyd County, Kentucky where he lived for many years in the David community. The recordings in this collection include self-made ones by Mr. Shepherd and those made by Steve Green, including interviews of Shepherd, in 1990.
His music combines elements drawn from eastern Kentucky religious music, blues, traditional ballad singing, and instrumental folk music. His repertoire includes old fiddle and banjo songs like "Rocky...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1986-1993