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Theo Pigg Rockcastle County Photograph Collection
Collection
Identifier: BCA 0148 SAA 149
Abstract
This collection consists of a group of nineteen photographs taken by Theo Pigg and bound together in a College Loose Leaf Note Book. Photograph of Theo Pigg is also included.
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: Majority of material found in 1936
Urban Appalachian Council Records
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: BCA 0151 SAA 160
Abstract
Papers of the Urban Appalachian Council (UAC), Cincinnati, OH, 1974-2014
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1930-2012; Other: Majority of material found in 1967-1994; Other: Date acquired: 06/11/2010
Thomas Wagner - Phillip Obermiller Appalachian Migrant Research Collection
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: BCA 0240
Abstract
This collection contain records of Phillip J. Obermiller and Thomas E. Wagner related to their joint scholarly work that focused on the areas of Appalachian migration generally and city based Appalachian migrant groups and organizations in particular.
Dates:
Other: Majority of material found in 1972-2000
William Goodell Frost Papers
Collection
Identifier: RG 03-3.03
Abstract
Frost, a native of LeRoy, New York, was an 1876 graduate of Oberlin College and taught Greek at him alma materfrom 1876 through 1892. Having refused the presidency of Berea College in 1889, Frost reconsidered theappointment after the resignation of William B. Stewart. Frost was inaugurated in 1892 and served as presidentuntil 1920. Frost is credited with being chiefly responsible for the significant growth of Berea College during thisperiod. His term saw enrollment rise from 350 in 1912 to...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1860 - 1955; Other: Majority of material found in 1860-1894
William H. Tallmadge Baptist Hymnody Collection
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: BCA 0035 SAA 033
Abstract
Tallmadge earned degrees in Music at Oberlin College (Ohio), in 1940 (B.M.) and 1946 (M.M.). From 1949-1976 he was on the faculty of State University College in Buffalo, New York where his research and teaching concentrated on both Anglo and African American popular musical genres. He continued this non-classical focus at Berea (1976-1984) with course work on the history of Jazz and its relation to newer musical trends such as Rock, Soul, and Disco. Articles published as a result of his...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1968-1980
William J. Hutchins Papers
Collection
Identifier: RG 03-3.04
Abstract
Hutchins, born in 1850 and native of Brooklyn, New York, attended Oberlin College, Yale University, and Oberlin Theological Seminary. In 1896 he graduated from Union Theological Seminary and was ordained a Presbyterian minister, receiving his first pastorate at Bedford Church in Brooklyn. Later that same year,Hutchins married Anna Laura Murch of Cleveland (whom he had met at Oberlin).
In 1907, Hutchins was appointed professor of homiletics in the Oberlin Graduate School of Theology. On...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1850 - 1977; Other: Majority of material found within 1900 - 1958
Wilma Dykeman Collection
Collection
Identifier: RG 09-9.16
Abstract
Wilma Dykeman (1920-2006) lived all her life near the French Broad River in the mountains of North Carolina and Tennessee. Born in Asheville, Dykeman traced her interest in writing to the stories her parents read aloud to her when she was a child. By the time she was in elementary school, she was making up her own stories, plays, and poems. After graduating from high school and Biltmore Junior College in Asheville, Dykeman attended Northwestern University and received a bachelor’s degree in...
Dates:
Other: Majority of material found in 1959-1998
Wilson Reeves Collection
Collection — Container: 1
Identifier: BCA 0141 SAA 141
Abstract
Wilson Reeves (1925-2008) was born in Fleming County, KY and attended Berea College. He was an avid amateur radio operator and collected unique and original recordings, with an extensive library of old-time and mountain music.
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1970-1983