COLLECTIONS

American Association of University Women -- Berea Branch Records, 1960 -   ,   HC 15
7 ms boxes

Anti-slavery Collection, 1785 - 1881 ,   HC 03
Slave bills of sale, abolitionist pamphlets, and correspondence relating to the crusade against slavery. 1 ms box

Norman Ball Photographic Collection 1940s ,   HC 37
Photographs taken by 1939 Berea graduate, Norman Ball, while serving in the 19th Depot Supply Squadron, United States Army Air Force in Europe during World War II. 6 ms boxes

Joe Samuel Barker Autograph Collection, 1950 - 1963 ,   HC 12
Collection of autographed letters written to former Berea student, Barker, many of which relate to a project he undertook to elicit the principal concerns of prominent political leaders. 1 ms box

Berea Business and Professional Women's Club Collection, 1935 -   ,   HC 16
Minutes, yearbooks, scrapbooks, and miscellaneous correspondence relating to the Berea Chapter of the Club, which was organized in 1935. 7 ms boxes

Berea City Records, 1890 - 1908 ,   HC 05
Berea village Board of Trustees minutes, 1890-1908. 1 ms box

Berea Community Collection, 1810 -   ,   HC 06
Materials that relate to both Berea College and the town of Berea, collected from various sources. Included are community records, photographs, and oral history audio recordings and transcripts. 9 ms boxes

Berea Friends (Quakers) Collection, 1968 -   ,   HC 27
Correspondence, reports, and printed materials documenting the organization and activities of the Berea Friends Meeting (Quakers). 5 ms boxes

Berea League of Women Voters Collection, 1946 -   ,   HC 14
Correspondence, reports, minutes, subject files, clippings, and publications documenting the Berea League's activities since its establishment in 1938. 14 ms boxes

Berea Women's Club Collection, 1919 -   ,   HC 17
Minutes, yearbooks, and financial records detailing the activities of the club, which was organized in 1919. 7 ms boxes

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Berea Younger Woman's Club Collection, 1948 -   ,   HC 18
Minutes, yearbooks, photographs, membership records, and scrapbooks detailing the club's activities. 1 ms box

J. Calvin Bright Collection, 1911-1983 ,   HC 39
Papers relating to the missionary work in China of Bright and his wife Harriett who both were Berea College graduates and ordained Church of the Brethren ministers. (Harriett was also a professional handweaver and textile crafts teacher. Many examples of her work are preserved in the Harriett Bright Collection of the Berea College Art Department.) 6 ms boxes

Chemical Demilitarization Media Project Collection, 1985-1991 ,   HC 30
Government and opposition group publications, news clippings, and video tapes documenting the controversy over alternatives for disposal of nerve gas and other chemical weapons stored at the Bluegrass Army Depot in Madison County, Kentucky. The video material includes interviews and comments at public meetings and congressional hearings by federal and local officials, other citizens, and technical experts. Among those individuals documented are Charles Baronian, Charles and Kathy Flood, Peter Hille, Clifford Kerby, Laura Manges, Bob Menefee, and Craig Williams. 26 ms boxes

Henrietta Child Collection, 1897-1977 ,   HC 10
Notebooks, correspondence, clippings, manuscripts, photographs, and artifacts relating to Child, a Berea resident famed for her storytelling in surrounding rural schools. 8 ms boxes

Citizens Review Support Study Collection, 1960 - 1990 ,   HC 32
Publications, correspondence, reports, clippings, computer records, and maps, relating to the controversy over disposal of chemical weapons stored at the Bluegrass Army Depot in Madison County, Kentucky. The collection primarily documents a U.S. Army funded independent environmental impact study by the Citizen Review Support Group under the direction of Oris Blackwell of Eastern Kentucky University. 21 ms boxes

Cassius Marcellus Clay Collection, 1849 - 1970s ,   HC 02
Correspondence, clippings, publications, manuscripts, and photographs relating to Clay's life, his anti-slavery role, and his relationship with Berea College and its founder John G. Fee. 1 ms box

Currency Collection [ Paper Money] ,   HC 09
Representative examples of American currency from 1771 to 1955. Items include Colonial era paper money, Civil War era currency (including Confederate money), as well as twentieth-century silver certificates. 1 ms box

Daughters of the American Revolution -- Berea - Laurel Ridge Chapter Collection, 1930 -   ,   HC 20
Minutes, treasurers' records, yearbooks, and scrapbooks relating to the Berea-Laurel Ridge chapter of the D. A. R. 6 ms boxes

Documents and Manuscripts (Autographs) ,   HC 08
Collection of autographed letters and other documents signed by persons of some literary, political, or historical note. 3 ms boxes

Fellowship of Reconciliation - Berea Chapter Collection, 1936 - 1955 ,   HC 23
Minutes, financial records, reports, correspondence, newsletters, clippings, and photographs relating to the Berea Chapter of this pacifist organization. The group was active in work with conscientious objectors during World War II, as well as in the field of civil rights. 2 ms boxes

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Alfred A. and Gertrude C. Gilman Collection, 1865-1966 ,   HC 40
Papers documenting the lives and work of Alfred A. Gilman, an Episcopal Bishop in Hankow, China, and his wife Gertrude Carter Gilman, also a missionary in China. . The Gilmans were the parents of Louise Gilman Hutchins, a physician and wife of Berea College President Francis S. Hutchins. Papers include correspondence, photographs, financial records, biographical material, reports, and clippings. 12 ms boxes.

William Goodell Family Collection, 1780 - 1892 ,   HC 04
Materials consist of correspondence, diaries, manuscripts, and clippings related to William Goodell, abolitionist and temperance reformer, and his daughters Lavinia Goodell and Maria Goodell Frost, mother of Berea President William Goodell Frost. 17 ms boxes

Idah A. Green Collection, 1870 - 1950 ,   HC 34
Correspondence, diaries, clippings, and photographs documenting the life and work of Ida Green, minister and social reformer. 10 ms boxes

Charles Guest Photographic Collection, 1940s ,   HC 36
A collection of World War II photographs, including scenes at Buchenwald the day after liberation, made by Charles Guest, a Berea graduate and army chaplain during the war. 1 ms box

Historic Newspapers Collection, 1856 - 1970 ,   HC 35
A collection of newspapers from the 1850s to 1970, many containing headlines of important historical events. 19 ms boxes

Andrew B. Humphrey Collection, 1890s - 1930s ,   HC 11
Correspondence, personal papers, and business records of Humphrey, including materials relating to his association with the National Republican Club. Humphrey was a Berea College student from 1867 to 1871, and later resided in New York, City. 18 ms boxes

Darwin Rush James Collection, 1865 - 1895 ,   HC 25
Correspondence, articles, bulletins, and broadsides relating to the political and public service career of James. Mr. James represented New York for two terms in the U.S. House of Representatives and was a Berea College Trustee in the 1890s. 1 ms box

Annie Fellows Johnston Collection, 1917 - 1955 ,   HC 22
Correspondence, diary transcriptions, photographs, clippings and the draft of an unfinished manuscript titled A Mountain Mail-Bag. Johnston was best known for her "Little Colonel" books for young people that were widely popular during the early 1900s. The principal characters of A Mountain Mail-Bag are two mountain youth who attend a fictional college that is modeled after Berea. 1 ms box

Berea Kiwanis Club Collection, 1922 -   ,   HC 26
Correspondence, reports, financial records, minutes, publications, photographs, and 16mm movie film documenting the founding and activities of this club which was the first civic organization for men in Berea. 11 ms boxes

Abraham Lincoln Collection ,   HC 28
This collection consists of Abraham Lincoln related correspondence, documents, pamphlets, memorabilia and artifacts, including one original Lincoln letter. 21 ms boxes