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Appalachian Region, Southern.

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:

Anna Ernberg Papers

 Collection
Identifier: RG 09-9.19
Scope and Contents This collection contains personal items of Anna Ernberg, director of Fireside Industries at Berea College in Berea, Kentucky. Anna Ernberg was one of the most visible proponents of the Appalachian weaving revival in the early 20th century. Included in the collection is a Redpath Chautauqua poster, a personal photograph book, a scrapbook of weaving drafts, correspondence, a piece written about the history of Fireside Industries by Ernberg and Fireside Industries brochures, a scrapbook of...
Dates: Other: Majority of material found in 1910-1930

Appalachian Biographical Vertical Files

 Collection
Identifier: BCA 0251
Abstract

This collection of materials with different provenance was assembled and organized by Hutchins Library and Special Collections staff. The collection contains a variety of materials about numerous persons or families with Appalachian connections.

Dates: Other: Majority of material found in 1968-1995

Harold H. Johnston papers

 Collection
Identifier: RG 08-8.14
Abstract

The Harold H. Johnston papers document the young adult life experiences of a Berea College student from Brooklyn, New York, who studied business at Berea at the close of the nineteenth century.

Dates: translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1886-1954

Loyal Jones Appalachian Manuscripts Collection

 Collection — 1
Identifier: BCA 0127 SAA 127
Abstract Born in 1928, Loyal Jones grew up on a mountain farm in western North Carolina. He graduated from Hayesville North Carolina High School in 1945, earned an undergraduate degree in English at Berea College in 1954, and received his masters in English (becoming certified to teach) from the University of North Carolina in 1957. Jones served as Director of the Appalachian Center (now the Loyal Jones Appalachian Center) at Berea College from 1970-1993. Before coming to Berea College as director...
Dates: translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1972-

Wilma Dykeman Collection

 Collection
Identifier: RG 09-9.16
Abstract Wilma Dykeman (1920-2006) lived all her life near the French Broad River in the mountains of North Carolina and Tennessee. Born in Asheville, Dykeman traced her interest in writing to the stories her parents read aloud to her when she was a child. By the time she was in elementary school, she was making up her own stories, plays, and poems. After graduating from high school and Biltmore Junior College in Asheville, Dykeman attended Northwestern University and received a bachelor’s degree in...
Dates: Other: Majority of material found in 1959-1998