Claude Carson Matlack Photographs, ca. 1906-ca. 1915.

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Claude Carson Matlack Photographs, ca. 1906-ca. 1915.

These document various aspects of the Oneida Baptist Institute during its early years, including activities, buildings and grounds, folk arts, students and staff, and special programs.

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Oneida Baptist Institute

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James Anderson Burns founded Oneida Baptist Institute at Oneida, Clay County, Kentucky in 1900. Four teachers and 125 students were on hand for the first day of school, January 1 of that year. In addition to educational basics there were courses in domestic science and manual arts, and an emphasis on religious instruction. By 1916 the Institute was operating extension schools in nearby communities, and teaching night classes for working adults, and had made sizable physical plant expansions. For...