Berea (Ky.)
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 120 Collections and/or Records:
Berea, Kentucky telephone company financial ledger, 1897 - 1906
Item — Box 1a: Series 1, Folder: 1
Identifier: 1
Abstract
This resource is a financial ledger used by a telephone company that served the Berea, Kentucky area in the late 1800s and early 1900s. The service provider may have been known as "Berea Pt L and L Tel Co." Accounts noted within include Berea College, local businesses, and individual residences.
Dates:
1897 - 1906
Berea plat map, 1893?
File — Map case 2, drawer 5, Folder: 9290
Scope and Contents
Paper map mounted on cardboard: "Berea College Plat of Lots in Town of Berea KY." Pencil annotation: "1893?"
Dates:
1893?
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:
1904-1954
Berea Quadrangle Map, Geographical Survey, 1952
File — Map case 2, drawer 5, Folder: 9495/2
Identifier: 9495/2
Content Description
From the Collection:
The assemblage of maps in this collection conveys visual information about the geography, geology, and topography of the United States, its natural resources, political subdivisions, and transportation routes that were developed during the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries. Some of the maps in the collection were originally gathered and utilized by the Berea College Geology Department. Others were collected by the college Library as part of the Weatherford-Hammond Mountain Collection. The...
Dates:
1952
Berea / Richmond and Beyond Unidentified WWI Era Photograph Album
Collection — Box 1
Identifier: BCA 0235-HC 60
Abstract
The album is, unfortunately, unidentified at present. Although most photographs are “labeled” with personal notes, some with names, there is no indication of the name of the owner, specific dates, or full names of most people pictured. However, photographs clearly show a female student who attended both the Berea Academy and the Teacher’s College in Richmond, spent time serving in Europe during WWI, followed by what can be assumed as time teaching in Pennsylvania. The clothing and other...
Dates:
1916 - 1919
Berea Town/City Naming
Collection
Identifier: RG 13-13.12
Scope and Contents
Records and communications regarding the origin of the name Berea.
Dates:
1936-1939
Berea Women's Club Collection
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: BCA 0192 HC 17
Abstract
Berea Women’s Club was organized on June 19, 1919 at the Berea Baptist Church by a group of women from the Berea community. The purpose of the organization “was to bring together women of this area of Madison County for mutual counsel and helpfulness and create a united effort for the welfare of the community while contributing to the best interests of humanity as a whole” (Engle, F. 2011 January 1. The Berea Women’s Club and the Echo Club, The Richmond...
Dates:
1919-2008
Berea Younger Woman's Club Collection
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: BCA 0193 HC 18
Abstract
Organized and federated in 1948 by Mrs. Bernice Robbins and Mrs. Mary Elizabeth Jennings, the Younger Woman's Club of Berea was so named to designate it as the youngest of the three women’s clubs in Berea. Its founders and charter members recognized a need for women to share their talents and concerns, and to contribute to their community.
The Club is affiliated with the Kentucky Federation of Women's Clubs and the General (National) Federation of Women's Clubs with the purpose of working...
Dates:
1948 - 1994; Other: Majority of material found in 1960-1990
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:
1959 - 2015; Other: Majority of material found within 2007 - 2015
Boone Tavern Hotel
Collection
Identifier: RG 05-5.04
Abstract
Historic Boone Tavern was built in 1909 at the suggestion of Nellie Frost, wife of Berea College president, William G. Frost. Named for Appalachian hero Daniel Boone has hosted visitors of Berea, Kentucky including the Dalai Lama, Henry Ford, President and Mrs. Calvin Coolidge, Eleanor Roosevelt, Maya Angelou, and Robert Frost.
Construction of Boone Tavern began in 1909 based on designs by the New York architectural firm of Cady & See at a cost of $20,000. The building, made of bricks...
Dates:
Other: Majority of material found in 1912-2014