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Augustus Noah May Collection
Collection
Identifier: RG 09-9.66
Abstract
Augustus Noah May (1876- 1944), a Magoffin County native, graduated from the Berea College Normal School in 1902 and went on to attend the Sloyd Training School in Boston in 1903. May returned to Berea in December of 1903 to teach Sloyd and Model School studies. May would hold positions at Berea, in the Model and Foundation Schools, teaching woodwork, Sloyd, and manual training and drawing until 1919 when he became a professor of Industrial Education at the University of Kentucky.
Noah May...
Dates:
Other: Majority of material found in 1904-1944
Cassius Marcellus Clay Collection
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: BCA 0218 HC 02
Abstract
Collection of materials by and about Cassius M. Clay.
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1849 - 1975
Chimes of Phelps Stokes Chapel
Collection
Identifier: RG 13-13.20
Abstract
Olivia Phelps Stokes gifted to the College ten chimes (Meneely Bells) in honor of President William Goodell Frost’s 25th year at Berea College. The bells were fabricated in New York and the large "F" bell is inscribed: "These bells commemorate the 25th year of William Goodell Frost's Presidency of Berea College and his unfailing, self-sacrificing devotion to the College and its interests."
Installed in Phelp Stokes Chapel in 1917, it was hoped that the chimes could be...
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translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1917-
George Norton Ellis Papers
Collection
Identifier: RG 04-4.04
Abstract
George Norton Ellis, three-year Professor of Latin, Dean of College Faculty, and Regent (during the absence of President William G. Frost) of Berea College.
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1908-1912
Henrietta Child Collection
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: BCA 0185 HC 10
Abstract
Henrietta Child (1867-1968) was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, the daughter of Harvard philologist and folklorist Francis James Child. After the death of her mother in 1911, Child moved to Kentucky to practice philanthropic teaching and storytelling. Her first year in the state was spent at Hindman Settlement School; around 1916, she moved permanently to Berea. During the next forty years she made monthly trips to schools within a ten mile radius of Berea where she told stories and...
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translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1897-1977
Hindman Settlement School Collection
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: BCA 0010 SAA 009
Abstract
Collection of materials of the Hindman Settlement School (Hindman, Ky)
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1899-1977
Katherine Jackson French Ballad Collection
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: BCA 0005-SAA 004
Abstract
Katherine Jackson French was influenced to collect mountain ballads through friends who had attended a lecture—in 1905—at which two instructors from Berea College, Kentucky, spoke about the uncollected ballads in the mountains of Kentucky. She was writing her dissertation at Columbia University at the time and she delayed investigating the matter of collecting mountain ballads until 1909 when she returned to London, Kentucky, to attend her mother who was ill. On at least two occasions in...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1909-1916
Lincoln Institute collection
Collection
Identifier: RG 13-13.29
Abstract
The Lincoln Institute was an all-black boarding high school in Simpsonville, Kentucky, near Louisville, that operated from 1912 to 1966. The school was created by the trustees of Berea College after the Kentucky State Legislature passed the Day Law (1904) putting an end to the racially integrated education at Berea that had existed since the end of the Civil War. The founders originally intended the institute to be a college as well as a high school, but by the 1930s it gave up its junior...
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translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1905 - 2023
William Eleazar Barton Papers
Collection
Identifier: RG 09-9.04
Abstract
William E. Barton attended Berea College from 1880 to 1885 (B.S.) and married Esther Treat Bushnell—a Berea elementary teacher—upon graduation from college. Barton was a circuit pastor in Robbins, Tennessee, until 1887. From 1887 through 1890 Barton was a pastor in Litchfield, Ohio, while taking courses at Oberlin Theological School. Upon graduation from Oberlin (M.A.), Barton pastored at Wellington, Ohio, and Boston’s Shawmut Congregational Church. From 1899 until 1924, Barton was the...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1885-1976; Other: Majority of material found in 1895–1925
William Goodell Family Papers, Part 1
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: BCA 0179 HC 04
Abstract
William Goodell, a native of New York, was a prominent 19th century abolitionist and temperance reformer. He either edited or published such reform-minded publications as the Investigator and General Intelligencer, Friend of Man, Christian Investigator, and Principia. Although never ordained, he founded a church in Honeoye, New York, in 1842, based on the principles of...
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translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1780-1892