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Berea (Ky.)

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 106 Collections and/or Records:

Academic Program Council (APC)

 Collection
Identifier: RG 10-10.13
Abstract

Meeting agenda, meeting minutes, and other documents of the Academic Program Council (APC).

Dates: translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1989-2013

Ada May Dinkleman Scrapbook

 Collection
Identifier: RG 09-9.64
Abstract

Ada M. Dinkleman was born on May 22, 1881, in Madisonville (Hamilton County), Ohio.  She graduated from Denison in Ohio and taught at Berea from approximately 1908-1911.  in 1912, Dinkleman married Emil Bracker, who had served as the acting superintendent of the College gardens and forests during the same time that Dinkleman was faculty at Berea.  Dinkleman died in January, 1984 in Illinois.

Dates: translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1908-1911

Albert Allen Wright Papers

 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

Julia Allen papers

 Collection
Identifier: RG 09-9.01
Abstract

Collection containing records and materials documenting Julia Allen’s contributions to Berea College.

Dates: translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1935-1974; Other: Majority of material found within 1935-1939

Annie Fellows Johnston Collection

 Collection — 1
Identifier: BCA 0197 HC 22
Abstract Annie Fellows Johnston, born in 1863 in Evansville, Indiana, was a popular children's author around the turn of the 20th century.  Johnston wrote the popular Little Colonel series, which was the basis for the 1935 Shirley Temple film The Little Colonel.  Most of the characters in Johnston’s' semi-biographical works were based on actual people, places and experiences.  For the Little Colonel...
Dates: translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1917-1955

Anti-Slavery Collection

 Collection — Box 1: Series 1; Series 2; Series 3; Series 4
Identifier: BCA 0168 HC 03
Abstract

The Anti-Slavery Collection contains essays, addresses, reports, letters, business and legal records, research notes, and other materials collected by Berea College librarians through donation and purchase. These items document the institution of slavery, the anti-slavery movement, the conflict over slavery, and the aftermath of slavery in the United States of America.

Dates: translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1769-1916; Other: Majority of material found within 1800-1880

Berea and Madison Co, Ky.

 File — Box 1, Folder: 4
Scope and Contents

Photographic slides: Berea College, Pinnacles, Berea College students, Boone Tavern Hotel, Log House Arts and Crafts, Berea College buildings, Indian Fort, Berea pool, Wilderness Road play, Indian Fort theatre, other. Folder contains list of slides and content.

Dates: Majority of material found within 1959 - 1990

Berea Arts Council Papers

 Collection — 1
Identifier: BCA 0233 HC 58
Abstract

A small collection of early organizational papers from the “Committee to Establish an Arts Council in Berea” and the subsequent result, the Berea Arts Council.

Dates: translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1985-1987

Berea Business and Professional Women's Club Collection

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: BCA 0191 HC 16
Abstract Berea formed and chartered its Business and Professional Women’s Club (BPWC) in 1935.  There were twenty-two charter members and the first President was Ms. Lucille Gilbert.  The BPWC is affiliated with the Kentucky, National and International Federation of Business and Professional Women’s Clubs, which was established in 1919. The main purpose of the club was to evaluate the standards and promote the interests of business and professional women who formed its membership.  The club also...
Dates: translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1935-1985

Berea Cemetery Association Records

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: BCA 0170 HC 66
Abstract After agitating the question of the need to organize a cemetery association and holding preliminary meetings led by Reverend E. H. Fairchild and A.A. Wright, the Berea community organized the Berea Cemetery Association in 1872.  The preliminary meetings resulted in the adoption of a constitution, the enrollment of nearly thirty subscribers to the Constitution, and an initiation fee for membership of $2.00.  The first election under the Constitution was held in the Fall of 1872 and resulted...
Dates: translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1872-1996