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Collection
Identifier: RG 08-8.06
Scope and Contents
These are the papers of A.A. Burleigh, one of the first African Americans to attend and graduate from Berea College. Materials include biographical information, correspondence, pension applications, medical and death records, and additional print material.
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translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1867-1938
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.
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translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1895 -
Collection
Identifier: RG 09-9.60
Abstract
Wright was the chair of Natural History at Berea College from 1870 to 1872. A few years after leaving Berea, he would be appointed professor of Geology and Natural History at Oberlin College. While at Berea College, Wright also served as the faculty meeting clerk. On September 21, 1874, he married Mary Lyon Bedortha (1846-1877), of Saratoga Springs, New York. Professor Albert Allen Wright died April 2, 1905.
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1870-1871
Collection
Identifier: RG 09-9.02
Abstract
This collection contains the papers of Margaret Belknap Allen.
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1943-1991
Collection
Identifier: RG 07-7.03
Abstract
For twenty-five years, Phi Delta Literary Society maintained an elite reputation as Berea College’s only literary society. However, when in the fall of 1894 “the society became unwieldy and torn by internal dissension,” twenty young men held separate meetings to form a new society. A committee drew up a constitution “which differed from the constitution of Phi Delta chiefly in that it allowed Academy men to be admitted to the privileges of full membership” and the first official Alpha Zeta...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1894-1943
Collection
Identifier: RG 06-6.13
Abstract
Official records and materials of the Berea College Art and Art History Department.
Dates:
Other: Majority of material found in 1923-2010
Collection
Identifier: RG 11-11.09
Scope and Contents
Records regarding awards and special recognitions given by Berea College to students, alumnae, staff, faculty, community members, and others. A small number of awards in this collection are given to Berea College community members by outside organizations.
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1908-
Collection
Identifier: RG 12-12.01
Abstract
The Berea College Magazine is a quarterly publication of the Office of Integrated Marketing and Communications. Formerly the Berea Alumnus.
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1931-
Collection
Identifier: RG 14-14.04
Scope and Contents
The collection is comprised of twenty nine audio cassette recordings of individual interviews, group discussions, and oral presentations that document various aspects of Berea College and community history.There are transcripts for the individual interviews and notes in varying degrees of completeness for the other recordings.The memory time span of the narrators ranges mostly from the 1920s to the early 1970s. The interviews were conducted by various faculty members and...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1973-1975
Collection
Identifier: RG 14-14.11
Scope and Contents
The collection is comprised of recordings and transcripts of recordings of oral histories of Berea College faculty, staff, alumni, and current students. The project was conducted by students as part of their Oral History and Tradition course (GSTR 100) taught by Meighan Sharp in the fall of 1999. Interviews were conducted and transcribed by students....
Dates:
Other: Majority of material found in 1999
