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Bob Rodriguez maps and rare book leaves
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: BCA 0288
Abstract
This collection comprises 25 printed items: 23 historic maps and 2 rare book leaves from the private collection of Bob Rodriguez.
Dates:
1847-1911; 1493-1497
Collection of maps of the United States
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: BCA 0291
Abstract
The collection of maps comprises a variety of manuscript and printed scientific, transportation, and political maps that were created between 1793 and 1996. These items were collected by the Berea College geology department and campus libraries over the course of many decades. Most maps not associated with the geology department have no specific provenance data. The collection also includes a few manuscript maps and drawings. Items of special interest include older maps (1790s-1830s) and...
Dates:
1793-1996
Map of Berea College and vicinity, Berea, Kentucky
Item — Container: Map case 1, drawer 4, Folder: 9268
Identifier: 9268
Content Description
Map of Berea College and vicinity showing the Fee House, Fee Marker, and first school house. Red and black ink. Scale 1:3600. Cartography by J. Knox Singleton and Robert E. Adams.
Dates:
Circa 1930s
Maps of Westmorland and Cumberland Counties, England, by Richard Blome
File — Container: Map Case 1, Drawer 10
Identifier: 10-7
Scope and Contents
Two maps printed in 1673: Westmorland County and Cumberland County, England. Hand colored details. Inventory number: 10-7. A pencil inscription on the back of each states: "From Miss Eunice True - April 1968."
Dates:
1673
New Military and Rail Road Map of the United States
Item — Container: Map case 1, drawer 7, Folder: 9711
Identifier: Log 9711
Scope and Contents
New Military and Rail Road Map of the United States
Dates:
1862
Wilbur G. Burroughs Papers
Collection
Identifier: RG 09-9.05
Abstract
Wilbur Greeley Burroughs was born in Shortsville, New York on December 7, 1886 to Joseph B. and Emma Greeley Burroughs. Wilbur and his younger brother, Wallace, attended Oberlin where he received his A.B. in 1909 (Phi Beta Kappa) and A.M. in 1911. Burroughs founded the Geology department at Berea College in 1920 and went on to receive his Ph.D. from Cornell University in 1932. In 1927, Burroughs was elected president of the Kentucky Academy of Science.
This collection consists of Burroughs...
Dates:
Other: Majority of material found in 1927-1959
Willard Rouse Jillson Papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: BCA 0020 SAA 019
Abstract
Willard Rouse Jillson was born May 28, 1890, in Syracuse, New York where as a youth he was greatly interested in natural science, geography, and travel. His undergraduate degree (Syracuse, 1912) was followed by a Masters at the Washington State University (1915) and further studies at the University of Chicago and Yale. He was awarded honorary doctorates by Syracuse University (1921) and Berea College (1925). After working as a petroleum geologist in the South and West, he came to Kentucky...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1898-1978