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Berea (Ky.)

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 94 Collections and/or Records:

Berea College Non-Serial Publications

 Collection
Identifier: RG 12-12.22
Scope and Contents

This collection contains a variety of non-serial publications of Berea College and its affiliated schools, including a number of short-lived student publications.

Dates: translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1900-1990

Berea College Photographic Archives

 Collection
Identifier: BC PH-BC PH
Scope and Contents

Photographic prints, negatives, and slides documenting the history of Berea College.

Dates: translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1853-; Majority of material found in 1890-2000

Berea College Utilities

 Collection
Identifier: RG 05-5.22
Scope and Contents

Records of the Berea College Utilitilies Department inlcuding Waterworks and Heat and Power.

Dates: translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1902-2005

Berea Community Collection

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: BCA 0181 HC 06
Abstract The Berea Community Collection is comprised of archival materials collected by college librarians as a part of the Berea City Vertical Files. This collection, with its wealth of local history, was removed from the vertical files in order to further preserve and arrange the materials as a working collection.      Background information and local history have been preserved in the form of business ledgers, organizational minutes, correspondence, newspaper clippings, audio recorded...
Dates: translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: Majority of material found within 1810 - 1964

Berea Evangelist

 Collection
Identifier: RG 12-12.23
Scope and Contents

A monthly "religious paper representing Evangelical Christianity, as opposed to all divisions among Christians, and as inconsistent with all oath-bound secret combinations and oll other forms of evil, whether popular or otherwise."  Edited by Elders John G. Fee and J.F. Browne, Berea, Kentucky, and H.H. Hinman, Washington, D.C.

Dates: translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1885-1887

Berea Friends (Quakers) Collection

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: BCA 0202 HC 27
Abstract

Founded on April 5, 1970, Berea Friends Meeting is a monthly meeting of the Religious Society of Friends in Berea, Kentucky. Berea Friends meeting is affiliated with Southern Appalachian Yearly Meeting and Friends General Conference.

Dates: translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1968-

Berea Garden Club Collection

 Collection — 1
Identifier: BCA 0169 HC 65
Abstract

The Berea Garden Club of Berea, Kentucky, was organized in 1973.  The club would develop into an organization sponsoring a variety of events and programs including talks by gardening specialists and enthusiasts, community garden and flower shows, and garden tours.

Dates: translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1973-1984

Berea Interfaith Task Force For Peace Collection

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: BCA 0224 HC 49
Abstract The Berea Interfaith Task Force for Peace was founded in 1981 as a grassroots organization of volunteers from various faith traditions sharing a commitment to peacemaking and social justice issues.  To this end, the group has focused its peacemaking efforts on the problems of the nuclear arms race, conflicts in Central America, and the local problem of nerve gas stored at the Blue Grass Army Depot in Madison County.  The group also organized the Mountain Refugee Project in the late 1980’s...
Dates: Other: Majority of material found in 1976-1983

Berea Publishing Company

 Collection
Identifier: RG 13-13.32
Abstract

The Berea Publishing Company (one time publisher of the Berea Citizen) was incorporated in the state of Kentucky on November 18th, 1904.  The three original stokeholders were Louis Hinman, William G. Frost, and B.E. Cartmell, all of Berea.  The first President of the corporation was William G. Frost.

Dates: translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1904-1954

Berea Town/City Naming

 Collection
Identifier: RG 13-13.12
Scope and Contents

Records and communications regarding the origin of the name Berea.

Dates: translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1936-1939