Albert Berg papers
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of two folders which contain articles by and about Albert Berg. It includes a picture with notation, "Albert Berg, a deaf mute was a football coach at Purdue."
Dates
- Creation: 1886 - 1945
Creator
- Berg, Albert, 1864-1945 (Person)
Language of Materials
Collection material is in English.
Access Information
This collection is open for research.
Copyright and Use Information
Portions of material in this collection may be in the public domain. Other material copyrights held by Purdue University or original creator. Consult with Purdue University Archives and Special Collections prior to reproduction of materials.
Biographical Information
Albert Berg was born in Lafayette, Indiana, in 1864. He contracted spinal meningitis as a child, leaving him deaf, and attended the Indiana Institution for the Deaf in Indianapolis before enrolling in the school that later became known as Gallaudet University in Washington, D.C. Berg returned to Lafayette and became the first football coach at Purdue in 1887 at the age of twenty-three. Berg later became a deaf advocate and teacher at the Indiana School for the Deaf.
Extent
0.05 Cubic Feet (Two folders)
Arrangement
Collection materials are in chronological order.
Processing Information
Material has been placed into acid-free folder and box.
Subject
- Purdue Boilermakers (Football team) (Organization)
Genre / Form
- Title
- Albert Berg papers
- Status
- In Progress
- Author
- Amanda Rumba, Mary Sego and Elizabeth M. Wilkinson
- Date
- 2020-04-07
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Language of description note
- English
- Edition statement
- Second edition. Collection description first completed 2008-11-30 by Mary Sego and Elizabeth Wilkinson.
Revision Statements
- 2020-04-07: Collection description updated by Amanda Rumba to more fully meet standards.
Repository Details
Part of the Purdue University Archives and Special Collections Repository
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West Lafayette Indiana 47907 United States
765-494-2839
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