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Berea (Ky.)

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 107 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 - 2016

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, Kentucky Sanborn map, 1922

 File — Map case 2, drawer 1, Folder: 9273/1
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: 1922

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