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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.
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1942-1949
J.A.R. Rogers and Elizabeth Embree Rogers family 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.
Dates:
1853 - 2019
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...
Dates:
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,...
Dates:
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....
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1933-1983
Willard Rouse Jillson papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: BCA 0020-SAA 019
Abstract
Papers and records of Willard Rouse Jillson (1890-1975) who served as Kentucky State Geologist from 1919 to 1932.
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1898-1978
Jim Smoak Banjo Music Collection
Collection — Container: 1
Identifier: BCA 0163 SAA 165
Abstract
Growing up in low country South Carolina in the 1930s and 1940s, Jim Smoak immersed himself in the music of his family and of the live radio broadcasts to which they listened. Smoak especially admired the innovative banjo playing of Snuffy Jenkins, whom he heard daily on Columbia’s WIS Station. Jenkins would become a family friend and mentor, inspiring Smoak to pursue work as a banjo player. Smoak would become one of the first generation of banjo players to bring three-finger style to...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1963-2012
J.O. Van Hook Papers
Collection
Identifier: RG 09-9.51
Abstract
Joseph O. Van Hook was raised in Pulaski County, Kentucky and began teaching in a one-room school house in 1909. He came to Berea in 1910 and earned two diplomas from the Normal School. He served as an Army corporal during World War I and spent four years following the war teaching in China at the Shanghai American School (1921-1925). He then returned to Berea College, earning three Bachelor of Arts degrees by 1926. He also earned a Master of Arts degree from the University of Kentucky in...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1855 - 1985; Other: Majority of material found in 1958
Jo Zingg / Jeanette Knowles Appalachian Volunteers Oral History Collection
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: BCA 0166 SAA 168
Abstract
The project was initiated by Jo Crockett Zingg with the purpose of documenting key figures in the Appalachian Volunteers organization who had not been interviewed as part of previous oral history efforts. Zingg recorded eleven of the interviews over an approximate two year period, 2008 - 2010. Former AV worker Jeanette Knowles continued the project after Jo Zingg's death in 2012. Additional interviews were recorded at various times by historian Tom Kiffmeyer, Women's History scholar Jesse...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 2008-2015
Joe Samuel Barker Autograph Collection
Collection
Identifier: BCA 0187 HC 12
Abstract
Joe Samuel Barker graduated from the Foundation School in 1950 and attended Berea College (1950-1953, 1961). Barker served in the U.S. Army in Japan and Korea and would go on to, amongst other things, work for the State Department, teach at the Friendsville Academy, and be self-employed. Materials in this collection consist of autographed letters written to Barker (approximately 200 items), many of which relate to a project he undertook to elicit the principal concerns of prominent American...
Dates:
circa 1800 - 1970