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Ancil Gatliff Collection
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: BCA 0080 SAA 080
Abstract
Dr. Ancil Gatliff was born January 2, 1850 on a farm in Whitley County near Watts Creek. His parents were John Speed Gatliff and Luvisa Jones Gatliff. He was educated in the county schools and secured his medical training at the Louisville Medical College. On October 26, 1876 he journeyed by horseback to Bell County where he married Miss Florida Ellen Moss. They had five children; Ruby Gatliff Archer, Pearl Gatliff Perkins, Una Gatliff Mahan, J.B. Gatliff, and E.M. Gatliff.
Dr....
Dates:
Created: 1887-1988; Other: Date acquired: 06/25/1996
Andrew B. Humphrey Collection
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: BCA 0186 HC 11
Abstract
Humphrey, a native of Hope, Ohio, attended Berea's Normal Department in 1867 and probably completed his studies in 1868 (no catalog exists for this year). Humphrey then studied a year in the College Preparatory Department, and in 1870 became a freshman in the Berea College Department. However, Humphrey left Berea in 1870. While at Berea he was known as "Montie" (probably a contraction of his middle name, Beaumont) and was the College bell ringer.
From Berea, Humphrey went to New York...
Dates:
Created: 1890-1930
Anna Ernberg Papers
Collection
Identifier: RG 09-9.19
Scope and Contents
This collection contains personal items of Anna Ernberg, director of Fireside Industries at Berea College in Berea, Kentucky. Anna Ernberg was one of the most visible proponents of the Appalachian weaving revival in the early 20th century. Included in the collection is a Redpath Chautauqua poster, a personal photograph book, a scrapbook of weaving drafts, correspondence, a piece written about the history of Fireside Industries by Ernberg and Fireside Industries brochures, a scrapbook of...
Dates:
Other: Majority of material found in 1910-1930
Anne Pirkle Genealogy Collection
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: BCA 0226 HC 51
Abstract
Great-granddaughter of James Williams Fee (John G. Fee's brother) and daughter of Virginia Fee Carpenter, Anne Carpenter Pirkle (1920 - 2007) was a dedicated family genealogist. Pirkle compiled the genealogy charts of the Fee family which can be found in bound format at the Berea College Special Collections and Archives. Anne Pirkle attended the University of Alabama and spent much of her life in Tennessee. She passed away in Nashville, Tennessee at the age of 86.
Dates:
Created: 1934-1992
Annie Fellows Johnston Collection
Collection — Container: 1
Identifier: BCA 0197 HC 22
Abstract
Annie Fellows Johnston, born in 1863 in Evansville, Indiana, was a popular children's author around the turn of the 20th century. Johnston wrote the popular Little Colonel series, which was the basis for the 1935 Shirley Temple film The Little Colonel. Most of the characters in Johnston’s' semi-biographical works were based on actual people, places and experiences. For the Little Colonel...
Dates:
Created: 1917-1955
Annville Institute Records
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: BCA 0043 SAA 043
Abstract
Annville Institute was an early outgrowth of the work begun in Jackson County, Kentucky, by the Women’s’ Board of Domestic Missions of the Reformed Church of America. In 1900, New York based missionaries, Cora A. Smith and Nora Gaut chose Mckee as the site of the first RCA Mission in Kentucky. By 1909, a Church and school had been established at Mckee and several Sunday schools elsewhere in the County. Rev. Issac Messler, Superintendent of RCA Kentucky work, had purchased a 75 acre tract...
Dates:
Created: 1900-1980
Anti-Slavery Collection
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: BCA 0168 HC 03
Abstract
The Anti-Slavery Collection contains essays, addresses, reports, letters, business and legal records, research notes, and other materials collected by Berea College librarians through donation and purchase. These items document the institution of slavery, the anti-slavery movement, the conflict over slavery, and the aftermath of slavery in the United States of America.
Dates:
Created: 1769-1916; Other: Majority of material found within 1800-1880
Appalachian Ballad and Folk Music Collection
Collection — Container: 1
Identifier: BCA 0019 SAA 018
Abstract
This collection consists of both handwritten/typewritten and published texts and music notations dating primarily from the period 1911-1950. It includes ballads, shape-note and other hymns, rhymes, spirituals, shanties, labor, and commercial country music songs. Also included are related magazine articles, newspaper clippings, bibliographies, excerpts from music faculty annual reports, and correspondence between Berea College staff and music researchers.
Dates:
Created: 1911-1975
Appalachian Biographical Vertical Files
Collection
Identifier: BCA 0251
Abstract
This collection of materials with different provenance was assembled and organized by Hutchins Library and Special Collections staff. The collection contains a variety of materials about numerous persons or families with Appalachian connections.
Dates:
Other: Majority of material found in 1968-1995
Appalachian Center Old Regular Baptist Recordings
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: BCA 0128 SAA 128
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of recordings of worship services and interviews that document Old Regular and Primitive Baptist singing and preaching traditions in Kentucky's Floyd, Knott, Letcher, and Perry counties.The recordings were made primarily in the 1970s and 1980s by Berea College faculty members Loyal Jones and John Wallhauser, other researchers, and church members.
There are 13 reel-to-reel and 23 audio tape cassette recordings along with written recording contents logs....
Dates:
Other: Majority of material found in 1970-1980
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