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Economics and Business Department
Collection
Identifier: RG 06-6.19
Abstract
Records of the Berea College Economics and Business Program
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1945-2018
Ed Ward Collection
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: BCA 0137 SAA 137
Abstract
Ed Ward was a private record and tape collector, poet, prose writer, and community historian who lived at Bledsoe in Harlan County, Kentucky.
The digitized material in this collection includes recordings of interviews with Ed Ward, his reading from his writings such as Tall Tales of the Hills, musician interviews he recorded, and selected tape copies from Ward’s record collection of commercial recordings of Kentucky old time and early country music...
Dates:
Other: Majority of material found in 1937-1991
Edna Lynn Simms Appalachian Collection
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: BCA 0081 SAA 081
Abstract
Edna Lynn Simms was born in Lexington, Kentucky around 1880. Marriage to Charles Sumner Simms in 1900 resulted in her moving to Knoxville, Tennessee. The couple had two children, Charles Jr. and Ruth Simms. Edna worked as a free-lance journalist and photographer while also participating in local women’s clubs and parent-teacher organizations. Her articles appeared in The Mother’s Magazine and Concrete and she served as an editor for the ...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1855-1963; Other: Date acquired: 00/00/1962
Education Department
Collection
Identifier: RG 06-6.20
Abstract
Records of the Education Department at Berea College.
Dates:
Other: Majority of material found in 1937-2017
Thomas A. Edwards papers
Collection
Identifier: RG 09-9.17
Abstract
Papers of Thomas A. Edwards
Dates:
Other: Majority of material found in 1925-1935
Elder Walter L. Akers Old Regular Baptist Research Collection
Collection
Identifier: BCA 0159 SAA 161
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of minutes from several Baptist denominations meetings as collected by Elder Walter L. Akers. Included in the collection are the minutes of Old Regular Baptist associations, Primitive Baptist associations, United Baptist associations, Predestinarian Baptist, Old School Baptist, and additional unspecified Baptist denominations. The collection also contains serials and publications of Baptist denominations and organizations as well as the research papers of Elder W.L....
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1881-2012
Elisabeth Sinclair Peck Papers
Collection
Identifier: RG 09-9.35
Abstract
Elisabeth Sinclair Peck joined the Berea College faculty in 1912 and taught history until her retirement in 1953. Upon her retirement, she was appointed college historian by President Weatherford. She served in this role until her death in 1968. A prolific writer, Peck published numerous books on a range of topics—many involving the history and work of Berea College.
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1912-1968
Lena M. Elkin papers
Collection
Identifier: RG 09-9.18
Abstract
Papers and materials of Lena M. Elkin.
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1905-1986; Other: Majority of material found in 1928-1937
George Norton Ellis papers
Collection
Identifier: RG 04-4.04
Abstract
Papers of George Norton Ellis.
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1908-1912
Emily Ann Smith Papers
Collection
Identifier: RG 09-9.45
Abstract
Emily Ann Smith served as a Berea College Faculty member from 1930 until 1986 which included her tenure as secretary to the President, English professor, and Chairman of the English Department.
Smith, a native of Mayfield, KY, graduated from Randolph-Macon Women’s College in 1925 and Columbia Teachers College in 1930. In the summer of 1930, she moved to Berea to assume duties in the English Department as an associate professor. Smith remained a member of the English Department for forty-two...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1930-1987