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Item — Container: Map case 1, drawer 4, Folder: 9268
Identifier: 9268
Content Description
Map of Berea College and vicinity showing the Fee House, Fee Marker, and first school house. Red and black ink. Scale 1:3600. Cartography by J. Knox Singleton and Robert E. Adams.
Dates:
Circa 1930s
File — Container: Map Case 1, Drawer 10
Identifier: 10-7
Scope and Contents
Two maps printed in 1673: Westmorland County and Cumberland County, England. Hand colored details. Inventory number: 10-7. A pencil inscription on the back of each states: "From Miss Eunice True - April 1968."
Dates:
1673
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: RG 10-10.30
Abstract
On Thursday, March 5, 1964, 170 Berea students and 30 faculty and townspeople joined approximately 10,000 other demonstrators for a March on Frankfort. At the March, demonstrators listened to speeches by Frank Stanley Jr., Martin Luther King, Jr., Jackie Robinson, D.E. King, and Ralph Abernathy. Speakers pleaded for the Governor Breathitt and state legislature to consider seriously the House-sponsored Public Accomodations Bill.
Dates:
1964
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: BCA 0238 HC 63
Abstract
This collection is comprised of primary sources assembled by Margaret Dotson, Berea College Associate Professor of Child and Family Studies. The collection was assembled with the intention of assisting researchers examining the past foodways, social history, commerce and genealogy of the Appalachian region. The collection was also assembled with the objective of preserving essential components, records, and primary sources of the foodways of the Appalachian region and provide insight into...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1900-1966; Other: Date acquired: 01/01/2013
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: BCA 0231 HC 56
Abstract
A native of Appalachia, Margaret (Hess) Hay Edwards was a 1930 graduate of Villa Madonna Academy in Villa Hills, KY and a 1934 graduate of Western College for Women in Oxford, Ohio. Edwards taught high school mathematics and English for a short time in Kentucky (including the Villa Madonna Academy) before attending medical school. Margaret entered the medical profession after earning her M.D. from Temple University in 1949.
From 1952-1958, Dr. Edwards, M.D. was in private practice in...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1901-1994
Collection
Identifier: BCA-0287
Abstract
Collection of personal materials and papers of Marie M. Runyon, Berea College graduate.
Dates:
Majority of material found in 1960-2011
Collection
Identifier: RG 09-9.32
Abstract
Records and papers detailing Dr. Ira Jay Martin III’s work and life as a scholar.
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1944-1989; Other: Majority of material found in 1955-1977
Collection — Container: 1
Identifier: BCA 0107 SAA 107
Abstract
Mary Finley Holloway (later Mrs. R.D. Coffman) obtained her R.N. from Johns Hopkins Medical Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland. In the 1930s she traveled to clinics in Eastern Kentucky as the field supervisor of the Kentucky Commission on Crippled Children, and kept notes on the patients seen at clinics serving 40 Kentucky counties. In the mountains she rode a mule to reach the clinics, and sometimes accompanied patients in need of surgery to hospitals in Louisville. In later years, a relative...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1925-1941
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: BCA 0076 SAA 076
Abstract
Born in 1892 in Paducah, Kentucky, Ms. Wheeler was the daughter of a well-known attorney. It was part of a young society woman's education to be trained in music, but Ms. Wheeler took this training and made it her life’s work. She is best known for two books she authored: Kentucky Mountain Folk Songs (1937) and Roustabout Songs: A Collection of Ohio River Valley...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1917-1982
Collection
Identifier: RG 06-6.28
Abstract
Records of the Mathematics and Computer Science Program at Berea College.
Dates:
Other: Majority of material found in 2013-2014
