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Lilly Committee
Collection
Identifier: RG 10-10.25
Abstract
The Lilly Committee was tasked with researching and writing a proposal for a grant of the Lilly Endowment to improve racial and ethnic diversity and campus climate.
Dates:
Other: Majority of material found in 1991
Lily May Ledford Collection
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: BCA 0079 SAA 079
Abstract
Lily May Ledford (1917-1985) grew up in eastern Kentucky's rural Powell County, one of fourteen children. She learned ballads and hymns from her mother and fiddle tunes and popular songs from her father. She learned to play the fiddle and banjo quite early and in her teens was performing for community dances and entertaining tourists visiting the scenic Red River Gorge area near her home.
In the late 1930s she came to the attention of Kentucky radio entrepreneur, John Lair, who was...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1936-1985
Lincoln Institute collection
Collection
Identifier: RG 13-13.29
Abstract
The Lincoln Institute was an all-black boarding high school in Simpsonville, Kentucky, near Louisville, that operated from 1912 to 1966. The school was created by the trustees of Berea College after the Kentucky State Legislature passed the Day Law (1904) putting an end to the racially integrated education at Berea that had existed since the end of the Civil War. The founders originally intended the institute to be a college as well as a high school, but by the 1930s it gave up its junior...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1905 - 2023
Lincoln Institute Oral History Collection
Collection
Identifier: RG 14-14.02
Abstract
Lincoln Institute was an all-black boarding high school in Simpsonville, Kentucky, near Louisville, that operated from 1912 to 1966. The school was created by the trustees of Berea College after the Kentucky State Legislature passed the Day Law (1904) putting an end to the racially integrated education at Berea that had existed since the end of the Civil War. The founders originally intended Lincoln to be a college as well as a high school, but by the 1930s it gave up its junior college...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 2003 - 2008
Linoleum prints by John A. Spelman
File — Folder: 9478
Identifier: 9478-[SAA]
Scope and Contents
Two prints without text:
1. "Deserted Cabin" (see page 57 in At Home In the Hills)
2. "Mountain Cabin" (see page 67 in At Home In the Hills)
Data from the original mailing box postmarked August 12, 1982: "Spellman - Prints from Linoleum cuts. Mr. Spellman was a worker at Pine Mt. Settlement School and an Artist. The deserted cabin was on Greasy Creek, Harlan Co. Kentucky."
Dates:
1937 - 1941
Lois Hirschy Trimble Postcard Collection
Collection — Container: 1
Identifier: BCA 0098 SAA 098
Abstract
Lois Hirschy graduated from Berea College in 1924. A year later, she began teaching Latin and English in the Berea Academy (which later became the Foundation School). In 1928 she left the school and married Green Trimble; the couple made their home in Lexington, Kentucky. In the spring of 1966 Lois Hirschy Trimble was elected president of Lexington’s YWCA Board of Directors. She had previously served as chair of Personnel, Finance, Building Development, and as the First Vice President. ...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1900-1940
Long Range Planning Committees
Collection
Identifier: RG 10-10.18
Abstract
See Arrangement Notes
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1969-1987
Mary Longacre papers
Collection
Identifier: RG 09-9.63
Abstract
Collection of materials of Mary Longacre (later Grimm), superintendent of nurses at Berea College in the early 1920s.
Dates:
Other: Majority of material found within circa 1920-1925; Other: Date acquired: 10/22/1993
Louise Gilman Hutchins Papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: BCA 0173 SAA 174
Abstract
Louise Gilman Hutchins was born February 2, 1911 to Episcopal missionaries—Gertrude Carter Gilman and Bishop Alfred Alonzo Gilman—in Changsha, Hunan Province, China. Hutchins graduated from Wellesley College in 1932 and married Francis S. Hutchins in 1934. Louise Hutchins earned her M.D. from Yale University in 1936. After graduating from Yale, Hutchins returned to China to live with her husband who was serving as an administrator for the Yale-in-China program and to complete her medical...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1923-1996
Lower Division (College) Records
Collection
Identifier: RG 06-6.42
Abstract
Historical records of the Lower Division (Freshman and Sophmore classes) of Berea College.
Dates:
Other: Dummy Date