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Physics Department
Collection
Identifier: RG 06-6.18
Abstract
Records of the Berea College Physics Department. This collection also includes early records of the college's Science Department.
Dates:
Other: Majority of material found in 1950-1980
Pine Mountain (Kentucky) Community Study Records
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: BCA 0023 SAA 022
Abstract
The study was proposed in 1949 by Berea College president, Francis S. Hutchins, then a trustee of Pine Mountain Settlement School. The school's boarding high school had closed that year and elementary programs merged with the Harlan County school system. It was concluded that a socio-economic study of the area would be useful in identifying possible new areas of service for the school to pursue. Giffin's study was never published in its entirety, though he did use data from the study to...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1948-1965
Pine Mountain Settlement School Collection
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: BCA 0011 SAA 010
Abstract
Pine Mountain Settlement School was founded in 1913, by Katherine Pettit and Ethel de Long. The two women received ninety-five acres of land from William Creech for the purpose of providing educational opportunities for the people of the Pine Mountain area of Harlan County, Kentucky.
Petit and de Long modeled their program after Jane Adam’s Hull House in Chicago. They hoped that their modern ideas about health, nutrition, work efficiency, farm management, and the cultural value of...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1913-2011
Pine Mountain Settlement School Records
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: BCA 0042 SAA 042
Abstract
Kentuckian Katherine Pettit and Smith College Graduate Ethel DeLong finalized the incorporation of Pine Mountain Settlement School (Harland County, Kentucky) in 1913. Land for the school was donated by William and Sally Dixon Creech, early settlers who wanted wider educational opportunities for area children. Katherine Pettit had helped found Hindman Settlement School in 1902. As stated in its Article of Incorporation, the purpose of Pine Mountain Settlement School was to provide an...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1913-1984
Planting By the Signs In Kentucky Oral History Collection
Collection
Identifier: BCA 0276
Abstract
Seventeen audio recorded interviews that document planting, cultivating, and harvesting crops based on moon phases and astrological signs.Listen to Interview recordings, read transcripts, View PhotographsThe interviews were recorded by Dr. Sarah Hall, Associate Professor of Agriculture and Natural Resources in Berea...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 2018-2019
Poster: "Kentucky Is My Land" by Jesse Stuart
Item — Container: Map case 1, drawer 8, Folder: 9671
Identifier: 9671 item 2
Content Description
Poem "Kentucky is my Land" by Jesse Stuart, copyright 1947, printed on heavy enameled paper with black letters; each stanza begins with a capital letter which is in a mustard yellow. The poster has woodcut llustrations of a rural scene across the bottom and in the upper corners. These are the works of Kentucky artist James Marsh. An undated letter on the back from Robert T. McCowen of Ashland Oil and Refining Company discusses this work that was produced as an educational service.
Dates:
Copyright: 1947
Poverty Warriors Oral History Project - Appalachian Studies 286 Summer 2015
Collection
Identifier: BCA 0284
Scope and Contents
The Poverty Warriors Oral History Project was part of an Appalachian Studies 286 course taught by Chris Green during the Summer of 2015. Participating students were Emily Carter, Raychel McKinney, Britney Napier, Alexandria Gaston, and Kayla (Kyle) Rector. The interviews were conducted to supplement existing material on the Council of the Southern Mountains and the War on Poverty in eastern Kentucky.
Interviees:
Tom Parrish,
Bob Shaffer,
Hollis West,
Judy Martin,
Loyal Jones,
Richard...
Dates:
2015
Presidential Inaugurations
Collection
Identifier: RG 11-11.14
Scope and Contents
Programs and printed materials from the inaugurations of Berea College's presidents.
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1869-2013
Print: Jacob Emrick, Christina Emrick, and their Butler County, Ohio residence
Item — Folder: 9386 #3
Identifier: 9386 #3
Scope and Contents
Print of Jacob and Christina Emrick and their residence in Butler County, Ohio. Rev. Jacob Emrick (1807-1875) was a farmer and United Brethren preacher. In 1855 Emrick preached against slavery in Kentucky at the invitation of Rev. John G. Fee. Rev. Emrick also served as a Berea College trustee. [item de-framed in 2024]
Dates:
1875
Printing Services Department
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: RG 05-5.34
Abstract
The Berea College Printing Department (today known as Printing Services) started in the 1880s as a small shop with a Washington hand press in "The Castle" (a small two-story house iin the southwest corner of the campus). With growing technologies and changes in locations (including at times the top floor of Lincoln Hall and in the William's Building) the department continued to grow and by 1905 had taken the shape of a job office that created publications not only for Berea College but the...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1895-