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Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: BCA 0278
Abstract
This collection comprises photographs, certificates, plaques, writings, and audio-visual recordings created primarily in the 1970s to 1990s. These resources document the life and accomplishments of educator and economist Juanita M. Kreps (1921-2010), a Berea College and Duke University graduate who served as the first female U.S. Secretary of Commerce.
Dates:
circa 1950-1997 ; Majority of material found within 1971-1990
Collection
Identifier: RG 11-11.13
Abstract
Records regarding Berea College's Labor Day, 1923- .
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1923-
Collection
Identifier: RG 10-10.36
Abstract
The Labor Program Council advises and assists the Dean of Labor in interpreting and applying the vision for the Student Labor Program. It has comprehensive responsibility for major programmatic changes that affect experiential, non-credit learning in the Labor Program, with specific responsibility regarding labor evaluation, assessment of goals and outcomes, and recommendations for improvements to the program as a result of analyzing assessment data. The Council receives proposals from the...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1975-2004
Collection
Identifier: RG 05-5.24
Abstract
Records of the Berea College Labor Program Office.
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1893
Collection
Identifier: RG 05-5.36
Abstract
In 1866, the Berea College Board of Trustees appointed a Ladies Board of Care (though no explicit authority or budget accompanied the appointment). The goal of the Ladies Board of Care was to protect the college from negative publicity and it achieved this by writing regulations and meting out punishments on all infractions relating to female students. It also focused on teaching the women of the college appropriate etiquette, monitored social privileges of the women in the boarding hall,...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1866-1903
Collection
Identifier: RG 08-8.16
Abstract
Collection of records and materials documenting the life and work of Berea College graduate and civil rights leader Henry Allen Laine.
Dates:
Other: Majority of material found within 1908-2009; Other: Date acquired: 10/08/2009
Collection
Identifier: RG 08-8.18
Abstract
Collection of photograpsh by Sarah Alice Snider Lambreth.
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1926-1930
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: BCA 0132 SAA 132
Abstract
Lee Knight grew up in the Adirondack Mountain area of New York State. He moved to North Carolina as the result of an interest in the Anglo, European and Native American music and stories of the Southern Appalachians developed during college. In addition to the Adirondacks and Appalachians, he has collected songs and stories from other parts of the world, including England, Scotland, Central Asia, Columbia and the Amazon region of Peru.
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1970-1980
Collection
Identifier: RG 09-9.22
Abstract
Collection of materials of Leila Flannery.
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: circa 1910-1959
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: BCA 0057 SAA 057
Abstract
Leonard Roberts’ folklore scholarship was distinctive in at least three respects. Although he included ballads in his collecting, as did most of his fellows, his primary focus was on magic tales and other stories. For a considerable time, he was one of only a few collecting and publishing such material. He is also notable for having included a large number of children among his informants and having made extensive use of electrical sound recording. Of particular significance are his...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1950-1983
