Richmond (Ky.)
Subject
Subject Source: Lcnaf
Found in 6 Collections and/or Records:
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/Richmond and Beyond Unidentified WWI Era Photograph Album
Collection — 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:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1916-1919
Chemical Demilitarization Media Project Collection
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: BCA 0205 HC 30
Abstract
Joseph T. Gray worked with Appalshop in Whitesburg, Kentucky, making documentaries, until he decided to work independently. While living in Somerset, Kentucky, he sought funding to produce a documentary on the question of how to dispose of deteriorating chemical weapons stored at the Army's Bluegrass Depot in Madison County, Kentucky. Although he followed the hearings and shot raw footage of interviews, etc., he never received the funding he needed to edit and produce a documentary on the...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1970-1993; Other: Majority of material found in 1985-1991; Other: Date acquired: 01/01/1993
Mahlon Dickerson Manson Papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: BCA 0236 HC 61
Abstract
Mahlon Dickerson Manson (February 20, 1820 – February 4, 1895) was a druggist, Indiana politician (serving in the Indiana legislature, as a U.S. Congressman, and as Indiana Lieutenant Governor), and a Union general in the American Civil War.
Manson was born in Piqua, Ohio, to David Manson, Jr., and Sarah Cornwall and was a descendant of David Manson (aide to Revolutionary War General George Washington). Manson’s family would later move from Ohio to Crawfordsville, Indiana, and, after...
Dates:
Other: Majority of material found in 1845-1900
Map of Kentucky, Richmond Quadrangle, 1923
File — Map case 2, drawer 5, Folder: 9495/1
Identifier: 9495/1
Scope and Contents
Map of Kentucky, Richmond Quadrangle, Edition of March 1897, Reprinted 1923
Dates:
Publication: 1923
May Mahaffey Papers
Collection
Identifier: RG 08-8.29
Abstract
May Mahaffey of Richmond attended Berea College for two years and graduated with a B.A. in English in 1929. Many of Mahaffey's family members also attended Berea, including both her parents and a brother.
Dates:
Other: Majority of material found in 1928-1929