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Berea (Ky.)

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 104 Collections and/or Records:

Lucille Cooper Photographic Collection

 Collection
Identifier: RG 09-9.09
Abstract

Lucille Cooper taught Home Economics at Berea College in the 1950s.

Dates: Other: Majority of material found in 1953-1954

Map of Berea College and vicinity, circa 1930s

 Item — Map case 1, drawer 4: Series 3, Folder: 9268
Scope and Contents

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

Map of Berea, Kentucky by T. G. Strunk, 1948

 Item — Map case 1, drawer 4: Series 3, Folder: 9265/1
Identifier: Folder 9265/1
Scope and Contents

1948 Map of Berea, KY by Theo. G. Strunk, Civil Engineer. Smaller version.

Dates: 1948

Map of Berea, Kentucky by T. G. Strunk , 1948

 Item — Map case 1, drawer 4: Series 3, Folder: 9277
Identifier: Folder 9277
Scope and Contents

Map of Berea, Kentucky by Theo. G. Strunk, Civil Engineer. Larger version.

Dates: 1948

Map of the Village of Berea, circa 1880

 File — Box 03: Series 3, Folder: 9
Scope and Contents

A manuscript plat "Map of the Village of Berea" drawn in ink on parchment created around 1880(?). On the reverse of the map is a blank Berea College diploma.

Dates: circa 1880

Mary Longacre Papers

 Collection
Identifier: RG 09-9.63
Abstract

Mary Longacre (later Grimm) served as superintendent of nurses at Berea College in the early 1920s.

Dates: Other: Majority of material found in c. 1920s; Other: Date acquired: 10/22/1993

Maud Bowman Papers

 Collection
Identifier: RG 08-8.05
Abstract

Maud Bowman was a 1918 graduate of the College. Her father, James C. Bowman was an instructor at Berea College for a number of years, having come to Berea from North Carolina in 1907.

Dates: Other: Majority of material found in 1915-1948

Middletown School, 1991

 File — Box 81: Series 6, Folder: 6
Identifier: Folder 6
Scope and Contents

Seven black and white 5 x 7 inch photographs of Middletown School taken in 1991 prior to renovation of the building and grounds by Berea College. Middletown Consolidated School was a Rosenwald schoolhouse built for the use of African American children in 1927.

Dates: 1991

New Opportunity School for Women Collection

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: BCA 0213 HC 38
Abstract In 1987 the New Opportunity School for Women was founded by Jane Stephenson, wife of former Berea College President John Stephenson.  Jane recognized a chronic problem in the Appalachian region of women needing to be better educated and needing assistance in the search for employment.   The mission statement of the New Opportunity School for Women is “...to improve the educational, financial, and personal circumstances of low-income, middle-aged women in Kentucky and the south central...
Dates: translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1996-

News Bureau Vertical Files

 Collection
Identifier: RG 05-5.23VF
Abstract

News releases, articles and write ups of the Berea College News Bureau.

Dates: Other: Majority of material found in 1965-1979