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James McBride Dabbs Audio Reference Collection
Collection — Container: 1
Identifier: BCA 0142 SAA 142
Abstract
James McBride Dabbs was a well-known author and prominent southern liberal during the age of segregation. He was a South Carolina plantation owner, Presbyterian Church elder, and author of The Southern Heritage and Who Speaks for the South. He also served as president of the Southern Regional Council and was a member of the Committee of Southern Churchmen and the Southern Student Organizing Committee.
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translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1958-1964
James Still Papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: BCA 0037 SAA 035
Abstract
James Still, a native of Alabama, was educated at Lincoln Memorial University (B.A., 1929), Vanderbilt University (M.A., 1930), and the University of Illinois (B.S., 1931). As a resident of rural Knott County, Kentucky, Still published stories and poems in the Atlantic Monthly, Yale Review, American Mercury, and the Saturday Evening Post among others. His works are generally considered to be both accurate and...
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translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1930-2001
James Watt Raine Ballad Collection
Collection — Container: 1
Identifier: BCA 0007 SAA 006
Abstract
Raine was born (1869) in Scotland and immigrated to the United States with his family when he was 12 years old. The family lived in West Virginia and, later, in Arkansas. Raine was educated at Oberlin College and Union Seminary in New York. Ordained to the ministry, he held pastorates in Ohio and New York. Married twice, first to Harriett May (who died one year after their marriage) and to Clara Martz. Raine had six children.
In 1906, Raine became an English instructor at Berea...
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translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1908-1949
Gladys Jameson papers
Collection
Identifier: RG 09-9.28
Abstract
Collection of manuscripts, correspondence, and related publications of Gladys Jameson.
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translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: Majority of material found within circa 1920-1980
Jane W. Pierson Papers
Collection
Identifier: RG 09-9.37
Abstract
Jane Wilhelmina Pierson was born in Ohio on July 24, 1917, the daughter of William and Barbara (Ries) Pierson. In 1939, she graduated from Mercy School of Nursing and later completed Midwifery training in the Frontier Nursing Service (1952). After working for five years in the maternity ward at Good Samaritan Hospital in Dayton, she served for two years as a frontier nurse on horseback in the Bull Creek, Kentucky area. After serving as a frontier nurse, Pierson worked at the Berea Hospital...
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Other: Majority of material found in 1917-1952
Japanese-American students during WWII
Collection
Identifier: RG 08-8.51
Abstract
Collection of materials regarding Japanese-American students who attended Berea College as a result of internment or relocation during World War II.
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translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1942-1949
J.A.R. Rogers and E.E. Rogers Papers
Collection
Identifier: RG 01-1.03
Abstract
These are the records and papers of J.A.R. and E.E. Rogers, founding members of Berea College. In April 1858, J. A. R. Rogers and Elizabeth E. Rogers arrived in Berea to and reinvigorate the small, struggling district school located on the Berea ridge.
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translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1857-1910
Jean Ritchie Folk Music of Ireland and Scotland Recordings
Collection — Container: 1
Identifier: BCA 0145 SAA 145
Abstract
Jean Ritchie (1922-2015), was a Kentucky singer and song writer. She recieved a Fulbright scholarship in 1952 and 1953, to study the links between her family's music traditions and those from England, Ireland, and Scotland. She tape recorded many hours of performances and interviews. Irish performers include Con O'Shea, Lilly Moore, Sarah Makem, Maggie Hughes, F. Keating, John Hoare, Michael Cronin, Micheal Reagh, Sean O'Tuama, Elizabeth Cronin, and Seamis Ennis. Instrumentation includes...
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translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1952 - 1953
Jeff Titon Kentucky Traditional Music Collection
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: BCA 0093 SAA 093
Scope and Contents
The collection is comprised of ninety audio and ten video field recordings of interviews and performances documenting southeastern Kentucky Old Regular Baptist singing traditions. Also documented are the repertoire and playing style of southern Kentucky fiddler, Clyde Davenport 1990-1991. Also included in the collection is an undated, published video, “A Singing Stream: A Black Family Chronicle” (Landis Family gospel singers of Granville County, North Carolina) produced by Titon associate,...
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translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1990-2016
Jesse Stuart Papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: BCA 0013 SAA 012
Abstract
Jesse Stuart—a much celebrated and beloved Appalachian writer—was born in Greenup County, on August 8, 1907. He lived with his wife, Naomi Deane, near Greenup on a tract of land that includes the old tenant farmhouse once rented by his family during his childhood. His one child, Jane Stuart, is also an author.
Stuart started writing about life in Appalachia when he was a young boy. He is known for a sensitive portrayal of the Appalachian highlander as a neighbor, relative, and friend....
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translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1933-1983