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"A Bluegrass Hornbook" (history of Bluegrass music) 1976 Public Radio Program Series.

 Collection — Container: 1
Identifier: ##6jp
Scope and Contents

Programs trace Bluegrass Music history up to 1976 with comentary, interiews, and performances including early string bands, brother duettes, Carter Family, Bill Monroe, Stanley Brothers, Don Reno, Osborne Brothers, Country Gentlemen, and McReynold Brothers.

Listen To Programs

Dates: Other: Date acquired: 07/06/2017

A Map of the Appalachian Region

 Item — Container: Map case 1, drawer 8, Folder: 9671
Identifier: 9671 item 3
Content Description

A pictorial map of the Appalachian Region "showing localities of historic interest, places of natural beauty and wonder, and public highroads thereto" by Clarence Kearfott. The map covers parts of Kentucky, West Virginia, Virginia, Tennessee and North Carolina and has a detailed border depicting historical scenes and events from the early settlements of the region during the 18th and 19th centuries.

Dates: Copyright: 1950

Abraham Lincoln Collection

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: BCA 0203 HC 28
Abstract Since its reopening following the Civil War, Berea College has been closely associated with the enduring legacy of President Abraham Lincoln.  As written in 1991 by Gerald F. Roberts, former Director of Special Collections & Archives: Founded as an anti-slavery institution in the late 1850s, Berea… led the way in interracial education… [and] by the turn of the century fostered a growing association with Lincoln’s name.  In those years, Lincoln was claimed as a great example for Berea...
Dates: translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1857-1989

A.C. Bailey Singing and Commentary

 Collection
Identifier: BCA 0289
Scope and Contents WAV audio file of self recorded commentary and singing by A.C. (Arnold Cooper) Bailey. It was donated by his son Arnold Chipper Bailey who says many of the songs were written by his father. Arnold donated the WAV file 12-12-2022. The original Cassette was donated to the East Tennessee State University Archives of Appalachia in 1998. Listen to...
Dates: Undated

Academic Program Council (APC)

 Collection
Identifier: RG 10-10.13
Abstract

Meeting agenda, meeting minutes, and other documents of the Academic Program Council (APC).

Dates: translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1989-2013

Academy School

 Collection
Identifier: RG 06-6.03
Abstract

Created as an affiliated school of Berea College, the Academy served as a Senior High School. In 1938, reorganization abolishes the Academy by adding the ninth and tenth grades to the Foundation School, thus creating the Lower Division (Grades 11-12, College Freshman and Sophomore years) and Upper Division (College Junior and Senior years) to the College.

Dates: translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1895 -

Accreditation Reports and Studies

 Collection
Identifier: RG 10-10.28
Abstract

Self-studies and reports undertaken by Berea College and its various academic and administrative departments in accordance with accreditating associations.

Dates: translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1921-2006

Actors Theatre of Louisville—Humana Play Festival Scripts Collection

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: BCA 0232 HC 57
Scope and Contents

Scripts included in the collection represent submissions and final revisions of works performed or considered by the Actors Theatre between 1981 and 1995.

Dates: translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1981-1985

Ada May Dinkleman Scrapbook

 Collection
Identifier: RG 09-9.64
Abstract

Ada M. Dinkleman was born on May 22, 1881, in Madisonville (Hamilton County), Ohio.  She graduated from Denison in Ohio and taught at Berea from approximately 1908-1911.  in 1912, Dinkleman married Emil Bracker, who had served as the acting superintendent of the College gardens and forests during the same time that Dinkleman was faculty at Berea.  Dinkleman died in January, 1984 in Illinois.

Dates: translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1908-1911

Ada Simpson Sherwood Papers

 Collection
Identifier: RG 09-9.43
Abstract Ada Simpson was born on January 25, 1861 in Carlton, New York but spent most of her early life in rural Michigan.  At the age of sixteen, she obtained a teacher’s certificate and became a rural school teacher while at the same time working toward the high school diploma. She married Alva Sherwood in 1888. In 1905 she was tragically widowed; this event marked the next phase of Sherwood’s career during which she would begin her life-long dream of higher education.  Along with her son and...
Dates: translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1888 - 1955; Other: Majority of material found in 1912-1952

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Hindman Settlement School. 8
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Fairchild, Edward Henry -- 1815-1889 7
Hutchins Library Staff. 7
Oberlin College. 7
American Missionary Association. 6
Berea College -- Campus organizations 6
Pine Mountain Settlement School (Pine Mountain, Ky.). 6
Berea College -- Affiliated Schools -- Normal School 5
Berea College -- Dean of Women 5
Stephenson, John B. -- 1937- 5
Weatherford, Willis D. (Willis Duke), -- 1875-1970. 5
Berea College -- Affiliated Schools -- Foundation School -- History 4
Berea College -- Berea Country Dancers 4
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Berea College -- Labor Day 4
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Berea College -- Student Craft Industries 4
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Frontier Nursing Service, Inc. 4
Hutchins, Louise Gilman -- 1911-1996 4
John C. Campbell Folk School. 4
Pettit, Katherine. 4
American Association of University Professors. 3
Appalachian Studies Association. 3
Berea College -- Athletics 3
Berea College -- General Studies 3
Buckhorn Children's Center (Buckhorn, Ky.). 3
Campbell, John C. (John Charles) --1867-1919 3
Campbell, Olive D. (Olive Dame) -- 1882-1954 3
Christmas Country Dance School. 3
Church of Christ, Union (Berea, Ky.). 3
Combs, Josiah Henry -- 1886-1960 3
Drake, Richard B. -- 1925- 3
Frost, Maria Goodell. 3
Green, Paul -- 1894-1981 -- Wilderness road 3
Lincoln Institute (Simpsonville, Ky.). 3
Maloney, Michael E. 3
Obermiller, Phillip J. 3
Powell, Reuben 3
Red Bird Mission (Beverly, Ky.). 3
Renfro Valley Barn Dance (Radio program) -- History. 3
Rogers, J.A.R. -- (John Almanza Rowley) 3
Shinn, Larry D. -- 1942- 3
Tallmadge, William H. 3
Wagner, Thomas E. 3
American Anti-Slavery Society. 2
American Association of University Women. 2
American Friends Service Committee. 2
Annville Institute. 2
Appalachian Studies Conference. 2
Appalachian Volunteers. 2
Association of American Colleges 2
Ayer, Perley 2
Ball, Norman. 2
Barton, Bruce -- 1886-1967 2
Barton, William Eleazar -- 1861-1930 2
Baskin, Andrew 2
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Berea College -- Campus Christian Center 2
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Boone, Daniel -- 1734-1820. 2
Burleigh, Angus Augustus. 2
Chase, Tom. 2
Clay, Cassius Marcellus -- 1810-1903 2
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