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Halbert H. Thornberry Kentucky Farm-Home String Band Collection
Collection — Container: 1
Identifier: BCA 0120 SAA 120
Scope and Contents
This collection documents the history of the Thornberry family string band from Henderson County, Kentucky over a period extending from the late 1800s to the mid-1970s. The original members consisted of Thomas and Gertrude Thornberry and their six children including son, Halbert, who compiled this collection. The collection consists of six audiocassettes of recordings made from 1962-1976, mostly of the Thornberry-Kentucky Farm-Home String Band at family gatherings in...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1962-1976
Ralph Charles Hammond papers
Collection
Identifier: RG 08-8.08
Abstract
Papers of Ralph Hammond, Berea College student and Poet Laureate of Alabama from 1991-1995.
Dates:
Other: Majority of material found within 1990-2004
Mildred Hudson Hannaford papers
Collection
Identifier: RG 08-8.09
Abstract
Collection of materials of Mildred Hudson Hannaford.
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1919-1923; Other: 2012-01-01
Harlan County Struggle collection
Collection
Identifier: BCA 0060 SAA 060
Abstract
Materials regarding Harlan County, Kentucky, and the ongoing struggle that occurred for over forty years following the big coal boom of the early 1900s.
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1931-1983
Harry M. Caudill Papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: BCA 0074 SAA 074
Abstract
Born in 1922, Harry M. Caudill grew up with a zest for history and reading in the coal fields of Letcher County, Kentucky. After being seriously wounded in Italy during World War II, Caudill went to the University of Kentucky Law School. While at UK, he met Anne Frye, whom he married in 1946. After law school, Caudill practiced law in Whitesburg, in Letcher County, and held some local political offices, in addition to a seat on the Kentucky House of Representatives.
However, it was...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1956-1990
Hazel Green Academy collection
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: BCA 0249-SAA 038
Abstract
W. O. Mize, J. T. Day, and Green Berry Swango founded Hazel Green Academy in 1880. Eventually, administration and financial support were shifted to agencies of the Disciples of Christ (Christian) Church, first under the Christian Women's Board of Missions in 1886, and then under the United Christian Missionary Society in 1919. Formal support from the national church ended in 1971. The Academy was a boarding school throughout its ninety-six years and the curriculum included both college...
Dates:
1886 - 1982
Hazel Green Academy records (SIA copies)
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: BCA 0046-SAA 046
Scope and Contents
This collection is comprised of photographs and microfilmed records documenting the history and operation of the Hazel Green Academy at Hazel Green in Wolfe County, Kentucky 1886-1982. After the Academy's closing in 1982, the original records and photographs were transferred to Berea College and comprise the Hazel Green Academy Collection, SAA 38.Use BCA 0249 SAA 038 instead of this collection. The finding guide can be found at: ...
Dates:
1886 - 1982
Hazel Lee Chrisman Collection
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: BCA 0160 SAA 162
Abstract
Hazel Lee Chrisman was born near Panola, Kentucky, on January 4, 1908. After graduating from Waco High School in Madison County, Kentucky, she went on to earn a degree from Berea College in 1928. Chrisman taught English at Berea High School and later in the Fayette County Public School system. In 1937, she earned her Master’s Degree from the University of Kentucky and taught at Elmhurst College in Illinois and at the University of Denver in Colorado. In 1959, Hazel became the associate...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1959-2009; Other: Date acquired: 04/01/2012
Health and Human Performance Department
Collection
Identifier: RG 06-6.32
Abstract
Records of the Health and Human Performance Department (previously Physical Education and Health) at Berea College.
Dates:
Other: Majority of material found in 1914-
Helen Beech Red Bird Mission Collection
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: BCA 0256
Abstract
Helen Beech (1901-1982) served at the Red Bird Mission in Beverly, Kentucky, from July 1925 through November of 1927. Beech, originally from Altoona, Pennsylvania, taught in Altona after graduating from the Indiana State Normal school. In 1925, Beech started her mission work in the mountains of Kentucky as a teacher at the Red Bird Mission in Beverly, Kentucky. After she served at Red Bird, Beech married the Rev. Dr. Chester Stewart Simonton.
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1925-2009; Other: Majority of material found in 1925-1927; Other: Date acquired: 07/22/2016