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Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: BCA 0175 SAA 172
Scope and Contents
This collection contains the records of Dr. Phillip J. Obermiller including: writings, correspondence and publications related to scholarly and community work; administrative documents and publications from Obermiller’s work with the Urban Appalachian Council; and research materials related to urban Appalachia and Appalachian migration collected by Obermiller.
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1950 - 2013
Collection
Identifier: RG 06-6.31
Abstract
Records of the Philosophy and Religion Program at Berea College.
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: Majority of material found within 1866-2016
Item — Folder: 9386, Object: 5
Identifier: 9386 #5
Content Description
Item 5, Framed photograph of a Euro-American man. [June 2024: item de-framed. Now in Folder 9386]
Dates:
circa 1900 - 1940
Item — Folder: 9386, Object: 2
Identifier: 9386 #2
Content Description
Item 2, Framed photograph of Dr. Ruby Paine, MD. [June 2024: de-framed. Now in Map Case 1] Euro-American woman.
Dates:
circa 1930 - 1980
Collection
Identifier: BC PH-IH
Abstract
Published in 2006 by the University Press of Kentucky, Shannon Wilson's Berea College: An Illustrated History contains facts and numerous photographs depicting campus life throughout Berea's long history.
Dates:
1865-2000
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
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
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
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
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
