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Collection
Identifier: RG 01-1.04
Abstract
These are the papers of George Candee who is associated with the founding and early history of Berea College.
Dates:
1860-1920
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: BCA 0182-HC 07
Abstract
This collection of personal papers provides insights into the life and naval career of George Upham Morris (1830-1875). A Naval Academy graduate, Commander Morris served in the U. S. Navy from 1830 until his death in 1875. The George U. Morris and Mary Chase Steele Morris papers comprise letters written by Morris during his active service in the American Civil War, a journal (possible from his widow, Mary Chase Steele Morris) narrating a journey to visit the United States Centennial...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1861-1876; Other: Date acquired: 05/27/1975
Collection
Identifier: RG 09-9.23
Abstract
Papers of Roscoe Giffin, Berea College faculty (1949-1962).
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1929-1963
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: BCA 0068 SAA 068
Abstract
The Glenmary Religion Survey was conducted in 1965 to identify individual religious attitudes, beliefs, and behaviors of the residents of Lee County, Virginia. The Survey was conducted for these three general reasons: 1) to identify personal religious aspects and beliefs about God, Jesus, and the relations the people interviewed felt existed between the divine and themselves, 2) the general moral attitudes and behaviors of the Appalachian region, and finally, 3) the relationship one has to...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1965-1970
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: BCA 0280
Abstract
This small collection comprises a variety of family history resources concerning members of a Madison County, Kentucky, family who lived in the early and middle twentieth century.
Dates:
circa 1930 - 1953
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: BCA 0105 SAA 105
Abstract
Gilbert R. Combs (1886-1966) compiled his collection of songs and ballads in part from those he heard growing up in Eastern Kentucky, and also from his acquaintance with gospel music and spirituals from several southern states. The collection includes some biographical notes covering Combs' early life, and his own recollections of his early childhood and description of traditional songs in mountain settings.
The Rev. Gilbert Reynolds Combs, according to his own account, was born in a cabin...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1907 - 1930; Other: Date acquired: 01/01/1989
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: BCA 0069 SAA 069
Abstract
These are the letters of Catharine Graney, of Flemington and Rowlesburg, West Virginia and Goyne Windle, who worked as a clerk for the Blaine and Potomac Coal Mining Company. While many of the letters concern the courtship and eventual marriage of Graney and Windle, there are many other interesting details.
Catharine Graney's letters concern family and social life in Flemington as well as her teaching duties at a local school. Goyne Windle's correspondence describes work and social life in...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1902-1906
Collection
Identifier: BCA 0221
Content Description
This collection comprises a box of Appalachian research field notes, papers presented at conferences, and both published and unpublished writings by Sue Greer-Pitt, including her MA Thesis and doctoral dissertation. Berea president John Stevenson was a close advisor and served on her University of Kentucky dissertation committee.
Dates:
1980 - 1995
Collection
Identifier: RG 08-8.10
Abstract
Papers of John F. Gregg, Berea College graduate and trustee.
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1863-1931
Collection
Identifier: RG 09-9.08
Abstract
Papers of Paul Hager, primarily from his time while serving in various roles, including Associate Dean of Academic Affairs, at Berea College.
Dates:
Other: Majority of material found within 1958-1988
