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Collection
Identifier: RG 13-13.39
Scope and Contents
Materials documenting the American Friends Service Committee's efforts and the placement of four Prince Edward County students in the Berea Foundation School in the early 1960s during the unconstitutional closing of schools in Prince Edward County, Virginia. Materials include articles, paper on the Student Placement Project 1960-1963, research notes of Steve Gowler, and photocopies of documents from the AFSC Archives.
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translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1959-1963
Collection
Identifier: RG 13-13.09
Scope and Contents
Four records showing the connection between Berea College and the American Missionary Association including data regarding Berea College, information on John G. Fee's commission by the Association, and a letter (1867) of J.A.R. Rogers posturing for Berea to be the association's choice for their Normal School in Kentucky.
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Other: Majority of material found in 1867, 1896
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: BCA 0080 SAA 080
Abstract
Dr. Ancil Gatliff was born January 2, 1850 on a farm in Whitley County near Watts Creek. His parents were John Speed Gatliff and Luvisa Jones Gatliff. He was educated in the county schools and secured his medical training at the Louisville Medical College. On October 26, 1876 he journeyed by horseback to Bell County where he married Miss Florida Ellen Moss. They had five children; Ruby Gatliff Archer, Pearl Gatliff Perkins, Una Gatliff Mahan, J.B. Gatliff, and E.M. Gatliff.
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Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1887-1988; Other: Date acquired: 06/25/1996
Collection
Identifier: RG 08-8.02
Abstract
Materials of Johnny Anderson, Berea College Academy attendee 1929-1931.
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translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: Majority of material found within 1929-1931; Other: Date acquired: 11/07/2005
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: BCA 0186 HC 11
Abstract
Humphrey, a native of Hope, Ohio, attended Berea's Normal Department in 1867 and probably completed his studies in 1868 (no catalog exists for this year). Humphrey then studied a year in the College Preparatory Department, and in 1870 became a freshman in the Berea College Department. However, Humphrey left Berea in 1870. While at Berea he was known as "Montie" (probably a contraction of his middle name, Beaumont) and was the College bell ringer.
From Berea, Humphrey...
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translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1890-1930
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: BCA 0226 HC 51
Abstract
Great-granddaughter of James Williams Fee (John G. Fee's brother) and daughter of Virginia Fee Carpenter, Anne Carpenter Pirkle (1920 - 2007) was a dedicated family genealogist. Pirkle compiled the genealogy charts of the Fee family which can be found in bound format at the Berea College Special Collections and Archives.
Anne Pirkle attended the University of Alabama and spent much of her life in Tennessee. She passed away in Nashville, Tennessee at the age of 86.
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translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1934-1992
Collection — Container: 1
Identifier: BCA 0197 HC 22
Abstract
Annie Fellows Johnston, born in 1863 in Evansville, Indiana, was a popular children's author around the turn of the 20th century. Johnston wrote the popular Little Colonel series, which was the basis for the 1935 Shirley Temple film The Little Colonel. Most of the characters in Johnston’s' semi-biographical works were based on actual people, places and experiences. For the Little Colonel...
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translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1917-1955
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: BCA 0043 SAA 043
Abstract
Annville Institute was an early outgrowth of the work begun in Jackson County, Kentucky, by the Women’s’ Board of Domestic Missions of the Reformed Church of America. In 1900, New York based missionaries, Cora A. Smith and Nora Gaut chose Mckee as the site of the first RCA Mission in Kentucky. By 1909, a Church and school had been established at Mckee and several Sunday schools elsewhere in the County. Rev. Issac Messler, Superintendent of RCA Kentucky work, had purchased a 75 acre tract...
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translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1900-1980
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: BCA 0168 HC 03
Abstract
The Anti-Slavery Collection contains essays, addresses, reports, letters, business and legal records, research notes, and other materials collected by Berea College librarians through donation and purchase. These items document the institution of slavery, the anti-slavery movement, the conflict over slavery, and the aftermath of slavery in the United States of America.
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translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1769-1916; Other: Majority of material found within 1800-1880
Collection — Container: 1
Identifier: BCA 0019 SAA 018
Abstract
This collection consists of both handwritten/typewritten and published texts and music notations dating primarily from the period 1911-1950. It includes ballads, shape-note and other hymns, rhymes, spirituals, shanties, labor, and commercial country music songs. Also included are related magazine articles, newspaper clippings, bibliographies, excerpts from music faculty annual reports, and correspondence between Berea College staff and music researchers.
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1911-1975
