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Harold H. Johnston papers
Collection
Identifier: RG 08-8.14
Abstract
The Harold H. Johnston papers document the young adult life experiences of a Berea College student from Brooklyn, New York, who studied business at Berea at the close of the nineteenth century.
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1886-1954
Josiah Combs Collection
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: BCA 0071 SAA 071
Abstract
Born in Hazard, Kentucky, Josiah H. Combs (1886-1960) grew up in Hindman where he learned many folksongs from family members, especially his mother. In 1902 he entered the newly established Hindman Settlement School, where his songs came to the attention of school director, Katherine Pettit (who sent the words of several of these songs to folk music scholar George Lyman Kittredge who arranged for their publication in the Journal of American Folklore.)
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Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1910-1960
Jostes Sisters Renfro Valley Photographic Collection
Collection — Container: 1
Identifier: BCA 0088 SAA 088
Abstract
John Lair started the Renfro Valley Barn Dance radio program while he worked at Cincinnati's WLW. His radio programs were heavy on comedy, turn-of-the-century sentimental songs, old English ballads, and rural string band music. The two programs he is best known for are the Saturday night Renfro Valley Barn Dance and Sunday morning Renfro Valley Gatherin'. He also set about building his Kentucky country music tourist complex in Rockcastle County, Kentucky, that eventually opened in 1939. His...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1930s-1976
Joyce Hannan Berea Community Oral History Collection
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: BCA 0259
Scope and Contents
Thirty-one oral history interviews with Berea residents recorded by Joyce Hannan mostly during 1978 in connection with the Country's 200th birthday celebration. Also included is a 1983 WEKU radio program that included Berea and other Madison County residents discussing the Nuclear Weapons Freeze Campaign. Persons interviewed are Luther A. Ambrose,
Mrs Perly Ayer,
Wayne Balinger,
Gary Barker,
Ellen Evans,
Sidney Farr,
Duffy Ford,
Clinton C. Hensley,
Rolf Hovey,
Francis...
Dates:
Other: Majority of material found in 1978; Other: Date acquired: 06/24/1994
Louis C. Karpinski collection
Collection
Identifier: RG 09-9.29
Abstract
Collection of materials pertaining to the scholarly work of Louis C. Karpinski.
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: circa 1906-1940
Katherine Jackson French Ballad Collection
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: BCA 0005-SAA 004
Abstract
Katherine Jackson French was influenced to collect mountain ballads through friends who had attended a lecture—in 1905—at which two instructors from Berea College, Kentucky, spoke about the uncollected ballads in the mountains of Kentucky. She was writing her dissertation at Columbia University at the time and she delayed investigating the matter of collecting mountain ballads until 1909 when she returned to London, Kentucky, to attend her mother who was ill. On at least two occasions in...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1909-1916
Katherine Pettit Papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: BCA 0012 SAA 011
Abstract
Papers and records of Katherine Pettit.
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1899-1937
Douglas C. Kelley collection
Collection
Identifier: RG 08-8.15
Abstract
Materials documenting the work of Dr. Douglas Kelley, Berea College graduate.
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1947-2012
Kentucky Child Welfare Research Foundation - Rural Child Care Project Collection
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: BCA 0261
Abstract
The Kentucky Child Welfare Research Foundation’s Rural Child Care Project provided services to meet the growth and development needs of economically and educationally disadvantaged children and their families in ten Appalachian counties of Eastern Kentucky. Major objectives of the program included providing a combination of casework, homemaking, and day care services to aid the intellectual growth and development of children in Appalachian Kentucky.
Records in this collection were donated...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1967-1971
Kentucky Day Law and Berea College
Collection
Identifier: RG 13-13.06
Abstract
The Day Law, "An Act to Prohibit White and Colored Persons from Attending the Same School," was signed into law in the Commonwealth of Kentucky by Governor J.C.W. Beckham in March 1904. The law effectively forced Berea College, the only integrated college in Kentucky, to segregate.
As the bill was being debated in the Kentucky House of Representatives Committee on Education, two groups came to Frankfort to lobby the legislators. One group was led...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1904-2005