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Margaret Dotson Foodways Collection
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: BCA 0238 HC 63
Abstract
This collection is comprised of primary sources assembled by Margaret Dotson, Berea College Associate Professor of Child and Family Studies. The collection was assembled with the intention of assisting researchers examining the past foodways, social history, commerce and genealogy of the Appalachian region. The collection was also assembled with the objective of preserving essential components, records, and primary sources of the foodways of the Appalachian region and provide insight into...
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translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1900-1966; Other: Date acquired: 01/01/2013
Mary Wheeler Ballad Collection
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: BCA 0076 SAA 076
Abstract
Born in 1892 in Paducah, Kentucky, Ms. Wheeler was the daughter of a well-known attorney. It was part of a young society woman's education to be trained in music, but Ms. Wheeler took this training and made it her life’s work. She is best known for two books she authored: Kentucky Mountain Folk Songs (1937) and Roustabout Songs: A Collection of Ohio River Valley...
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translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1917-1982
McCall's Magazine Report Collection
Collection — Container: 1
Identifier: BCA 0104 SAA 104
Scope and Contents
This is a collection containing a copy of the report “McCall Magazine Survey: Our Last Frontier” by Phillips Wyman on the investigation of Berea College submitted in April 1925 to a Mr. Warner, a Mr. Wilson, and a Mr. Burton of McCall’s Magazine. Included in the report are an introduction (as to whether or not a piece should be written about Berea College), “Description of the Mountain People,” “Description of Berea College,” a statement by Dr. Sherwood Eddy to the International Committee...
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translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1925
Mountain Maternal Health League Records
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: BCA 0053 SAA 053
Abstract
The League was founded in 1936 in Berea, Kentucky for the purpose of promoting birth control as a means of improving the health of mothers and children in portions of south central and eastern Kentucky. The League’s service area has included Estill, Harlan, Garrard, Jackson, Lincoln, Madison, Powell, Rockcastle, and Whitley counties. To reach rural women, League nurses traveled by auto and on horseback, delivering babies and providing birth control education. In addition, an office worker...
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translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1936-1986
National Advisory Commission on Rural Poverty Collection
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: BCA 0016 SAA 015
Abstract
President Lyndon B. Johnson formed the National Advisory Commission on the Rural Poverty, under Executive Order Number 11306, in the 1960s to counsel him and develop recommendations concerning legislative actions to be taken as a part of his administration’s War on Poverty. This particular commission was charged with the responsibility of evaluating one of the most difficult social problems in the United States—rural poverty.
The Commission...
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translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1966-1967
Neil Di Teresa Photography Collection
Collection
Identifier: RG 09-9.14
Abstract
Neil Di Teresa received his Bachelor’s Degree from the Pratt Institute in New York and a Master’s Degree in Fine Arts from the University of New Mexico. He was professor of art at Berea College from 1962 to 2010. Di Teresa was also a visiting senior professor at Darwin College, University of Kent, Canterbury, England, and a guest professor at the University of Notre Dame.
Di Teresa’s work can be found in numerous museum and corporate collections including Phillip Morris, KY; Ashland Oil,...
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translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1973
New Opportunity School for Women - Berea College
Collection
Identifier: RG 10-10.16
Abstract
In 1987 the New Opportunity School for Women (NOSW) was founded as an outreach program of Berea College by Jane Stephenson, wife of former Berea College President John Stephenson. Stephenson recognized a chronic problem in the Appalachian region of low-income women needing to be better educated and needing assistance in the search for employment. The mission statement of the New Opportunity School for Women was “...to improve the educational, financial, and personal circumstances of...
Dates:
Other: Majority of material found in 1987-1996
New Opportunity School for Women Collection
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: BCA 0213 HC 38
Abstract
In 1987 the New Opportunity School for Women was founded by Jane Stephenson, wife of former Berea College President John Stephenson. Jane recognized a chronic problem in the Appalachian region of women needing to be better educated and needing assistance in the search for employment. The mission statement of the New Opportunity School for Women is “...to improve the educational, financial, and personal circumstances of low-income, middle-aged women in Kentucky and the south central...
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translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1996-
New Salem Baptist Church Records
Collection — Container: 1
Identifier: BCA 0248 SAA 171
Abstract
The New Salem Baptist Church in Harold (Co. Floyd), Kentucky, was one of the original churches to enter into the New Salem Association of Baptists (constituted in 1825 in eastern Kentucky, armed from Burning Springs). Built about the same time as the Association’s founding, the New Salem Baptist Church was built in an area originally called Harold Gap (now referred to as Old Harold Road). Association records show that Simeon Justice, William Salisbury, and Alexander Lackey were messengers...
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translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1872-1893
Over Home Radio Programs
Collection — Container: 1
Identifier: BCA 0112 SAA 112
Scope and Contents
Thirteen non-commercial audio cassette recordings, Dec. 1988 - June 1990, of Over Home, a radio program series documenting Western North Carolina traditional musicians and storytellers that aired on WNCW in Spindale, North Carolina.
Listen To Programs / Read Play Lists
Episodes cover...
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translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1988-1990