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Rebecca Washington collection
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: BCA 0103-SAA 103
Abstract
Rebecca Washington was the daughter of Sallie Wright Washington (b.1811) and George W. Washington (1809-1876), who was descended from a brother of President George Washington. Sallie Wright, along with her brother and sister, had co-inherited Ridgedale farm from her grandfather, Major Robert Lockhart. When Sallie married, the land passed to her and her husband, and they built a log cabin on it circa 1832. The large home they built in 1835, where Rebecca grew up, is now on the National...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1853 - 1906
Record Series Number
Collection
Identifier: Box Number
Scope and Contents
BIO FIELD
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: Date; Other: Majority of material found in DESC FIELD; Other: Date acquired: ID/PR/UNIT
Records of the 8th Kentucky Volunteers, Company C (Union)
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: BCA 0230-HC 55
Scope and Contents
This small collection comprises nine folders of military records associated with the 8th Kentucky Volunteers, United States Army. Items in the collection include muster rolls, official correspondence, and other government documents.
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1861 - 1866; 1887
Recreation Extension Service
Collection
Identifier: RG 05-5.45
Abstract
The Recreation Extension Service was formally established in 1937 under the direction of Frank H. Smith with the aim of increasing the appreciation of Appalachian cultural heritage through participation in recreational activities based on traditional folk material. Recreation
Extension services included folk arts programming, the Christmas Country Dance School, the Mountain Folk Festival, the Country Dancers and other recreational campus groups, itineranct recreation services to schools and...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1914-1995
Red Bird Mission Records
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: BCA 0044 SAA 044
Abstract
The Board of Missions of the mid-western based Evangelical Church began considering the eastern Kentucky’s Red Bird River region for a home mission project in 1919. On the recommendation of Rev. William Buyers, a Presbyterian minister from Hyden, Leslie County, Kentucky, a Board appointed committee visited the area and found that residents were receptive to the idea of a mission. The first Mission worship service was held in a tiny schoolhouse at Beverly in Bell County on May 29, 1921. The...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1920-1985
Reflections: A Celebration of Faculty Achievement
Collection
Identifier: RG 12-12.10
Scope and Contents
Publication of the Dean and Professional Growth Committee
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1999-2009
Office of the Registrar
Collection
Identifier: RG 05-5.30
Abstract
The Office of the Registrar assists students, faculty and alumni with a variety of services including maintaining academic records on all students and overseeing registration. The Registrar also maintains access to the academic calendar, class schedule, and college catalog.
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1868-
Renfro Valley Barn Dance Oral History Project
Collection
Identifier: BCA 0299
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of audio recorded interviews with fifteen performers and others who were associated with the Renfro Valley Barn Dance and other radio programs and stage shows produced by John Lair in Renfro Valley, Kentucky, mainly during the period 1940 - 1970. The interviews were conducted during the period 1985-1986 by Country Music Foundation Historian, John Rumble under the auspices of the Kentucky Oral History Commission.
Persons interviewed are:
Bob Baker,
Al...
Dates:
1985-1986
Reuben Powell Early Country Music Collection
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: BCA 0065 SAA 065
Abstract
The collecting activity reflected in this collection began in the early 1950s and continued well into the 1970s. After Rueben Powell’s 1968 retirement from work as chief utility engineer at Wright Patterson Airforce Base in Ohio, Powell and his wife Retha started the Renfro Valley Tape Club as a means of sharing the fruits of his collecting with other country music fans. Its appeal was particularly substantial among Powell's contemporaries who were disenchanted with the then newer country...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1910-1982
Richard Sears Research Collection
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: BCA 0250
Abstract
Richard D. Sears was Professor of English and Theatre, 1967-2010, and the Chester D. Tripp Chair in Humanities at Berea College. He has published numerous books and articles on various aspects of Kentucky history including the abolitionist movement, Camp Nelson, and Madison County. In particular, Sears devoted many years to researching and writing about the origins of Berea College and it founding members and families.
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1796-2008