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Collection — Container: 1
Identifier: BCA 0248 SAA 171
Abstract
The New Salem Baptist Church in Harold (Co. Floyd), Kentucky, was one of the original churches to enter into the New Salem Association of Baptists (constituted in 1825 in eastern Kentucky, armed from Burning Springs). Built about the same time as the Association’s founding, the New Salem Baptist Church was built in an area originally called Harold Gap (now referred to as Old Harold Road). Association records show that Simeon Justice, William Salisbury, and Alexander Lackey were messengers...
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translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1872-1893
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: RG 05-5.23PA
Scope and Contents
The basis of the collection came from over 65 record boxes of negatives, slides, contact sheets, and prints of the Berea College News Bureau deposited with the archives by Berea College Public Relations between 1986 and 2012.
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translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: Majority of material found within 1975 - 2007
Collection
Identifier: RG 05-5.23VF
Abstract
News releases, articles and write ups of the Berea College News Bureau.
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Other: Majority of material found in 1965-1979
Collection
Identifier: RG 08-8.19
Abstract
Personal papers of Bertha Daisy Nickum.
Dates:
Other: Majority of material found within 1901-1902
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: BCA 0108 SAA 108
Abstract
Nora Owens Carpenter (1888-1975) was a formidable presence for many years in the Salyersville - Magoffin County area of eastern Kentucky. Married to Morgan Green Carpenter in 1907, she was a mother of five, businesswoman, and onetime postmaster.
However for many in her home community, she is best remembered as a talented, traditional musician (banjo and harmonica) and topical song writer. She and her string band, “Big Mamma and the Half Mountain Hotshots,” had a strong following on...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1920-1960; Other: Date acquired: 10/01/2007
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: BCA 0096 SAA 096
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of copies of manuscripts from the narrative traditions of the Farmer-Muncy-Lewis family of Leslie County, Kentucky. These 38 folktales are mainly from the repertoire of Sidney Farmer Muncy and were written down by her daughter, Nora Morgan Lewis in the 1950s.
Dates:
Other: Majority of material found in 1950s; Other: Date acquired: 07/21/2003
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: BCA 0063 SAA 063
Abstract
Chartered in 1881, the Norfolk and Western Railroad was created and organized when Clarence H. Clark and his associates purchased the property and franchises belonging to the Atlantic, Mississippi and Ohio Railroad Company. The combined length owned by Clark and associates, after the rights had been bought in a public sale, was just over 400 miles. By the year 1900 another 1,100 miles had been added including a branch as far north as Columbus, Ohio. Growth was limited for the railroad...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1881-1979
Collection
Identifier: RG 06-6.05
Abstract
Official records of the Berea College Normal School, 1894 - 1931. The Certification Law of 1930, requiring teachers to have four years of collegiate training, effectively dismantled the Normal School (which had already been altered in keeping with other state and federal requirements).
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1894-1931
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: BCA 0212 HC 37
Abstract
Born in McCreary County, KY, Norman Ball graduated from the Berea College Academy in 1933 and from Berea College in 1939. He enlisted in September 1942 and eventually served in North Africa, Italy, and France. At the time of his enlistment, he was the fifth member of his family to join the service. Ball received an honorable discharge in October 1945.
Ball returned to McCreary County and taught in the county school system before retiring in 1973. He was an active supporter on Berea...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1942-1945; Other: Date acquired: 01/01/1992
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: RG 06-6.30
Abstract
Records of the Berea College Nursing Department.
Dates:
Other: Majority of material found in 1921-
