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Appalachian Region.

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 46 Collections and/or Records:

Bertha Daisy Nickum Papers

 Collection
Identifier: RG 08-8.19
Scope and Contents

These are the personal papers of Bertha Daisy Nickum, Berea College student 1901-1902.  Materials include photographs, college memorabilia, and correspondence Nickum wrote during her time at Berea describing both the college and the surrounding areas.

Dates: Other: Majority of material found in 1901-1902
Found in: Berea College Special Collections and Archives

Blount County Black History Project -Then and Now as Told by Those Who Lived It

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: BCA 0157
Abstract Charles Pride, Dorothy Kincaid, and Jo Davenport formed CDJ Media Productions to conduct and record interviews with black Blount County residents who helped shape the community during and after the integration of the schools in 1969. Their idea for collecting interviews was formed in 2007 when they identified an urgency to preserve, in an accurate and positive way, Blount County’s rich black history. Their work resulted in “Blount County’s Black History — As Told by Those Who Lived It — Then...
Dates: translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1959 - 2015; Other: Majority of material found in 2007-2015
Found in: Berea College Special Collections and Archives

Brushy Fork Institute

 Collection
Identifier: RG 06-6.12.4
Abstract

These are the official records of the Brushy Fork Institute.

Dates: translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1988-
Found in: Berea College Special Collections and Archives

Celebration of Traditional Music

 Collection — 6.12 Oversized Posters
Identifier: RG 06-6.12.5
Abstract

Records documenting the Celebration of Traditional Music, an annual event striving to represent homemade music passed on from person to person in the Appalachian Region and the musicians who play it.

Dates: translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1974 -
Found in: Berea College Special Collections and Archives

Charleston Appalachian Peoples Meeting poster

 File — Case Map case 1, Drawer 7
Identifier: 9667
Scope and Contents

A promtional poster for the May 25, 1968 Appalachian People's Meeting in Charleston, West Virginia. The event was sponsored by Community Action Federation and included workshops on ADCU, welfare, taxes, roads, elections, education, and youth. A 2012 donation letter accompanies the poster.

Dates: 1968
Found in: Berea College Special Collections and Archives

Coal Vertical Files

 Collection
Identifier: BCA 0253
Abstract

This collection of materials-with different provenance-was assembled and organized by Hutchins Library and Special Collections staff. The collection contains a variety of materials (including clippings, writings, brochures, publications, and reports) documenting the history and culture of coal mining in the Appalachian region of the United States.

Dates: Other: Majority of material found in 1980 - 2005
Found in: Berea College Special Collections and Archives

Robert F. Connor Photography Collection

 Collection
Identifier: BCA 0134 SAA 134
Abstract

Collection of photographic work of Robert F. Connor.

Dates: translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1960-1991
Found in: Berea College Special Collections and Archives

Doris Ulmann Papers

 Collection
Identifier: BCA 0009 SAA 008
Abstract Doris Ulmann was born in New York City in 1884.  She attended the School of Ethical Culture at Columbia University and later studied photography at the Clarence H. White School of Photography.  She married and divorced Charles H. Jaeger, a prominent orthopedic surgeon. Ulmann’s published works include Portraits of the Medical Faculty of the John Hopkins University (1922), A Portrait of American Editors (1925), Roll, Jordan, Roll...
Dates: translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1930-1976
Found in: Berea College Special Collections and Archives

Richard Bryant Drake papers

 Collection
Identifier: RG 09-9.15
Abstract

Papers of Richard (Dick) Bryant Drake.

Dates: translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1948-2001; Other: Majority of material found in 1960-1995; Other: Date acquired: 02/01/2001
Found in: Berea College Special Collections and Archives

E.O. Robinson Mountain Fund Records

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: BCA 0021 SAA 020
Abstract The E.O. Robinson Mountain Fund was incorporated June 27, 1922, by Edward O. Robinson, Frederick W. Mowbray, Edward C. O'Rear, and W.H. Hyden. That year Robinson had retired from the presidency of the Mowbray-Robinson Lumber Company in Cincinnati, where he had made a fortune in the World War I lumber boom. Robinson and Mowbray entered the lumber business in 1908 with the purchase of approximately 16,000 acres of timberland in eastern Kentucky's Breathitt, Knott, and Perry counties. ...
Dates: translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1922-1978
Found in: Berea College Special Collections and Archives

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