Digital Collections

Special Collections & Archives

Selected Collections
From Our Archives
From Manuscripts & Rare Books
Other WFU Collections

Z. Smith Reynolds Library makes its digital collections publicly accessible for purposes of education and research. The Library has made reasonable efforts to identify all possible rights holders for items in its digital collections. In some cases, due to the nature of archival collections, we have been unable to identify this information. We are eager to hear from any rights owners so we may obtain accurate information. Upon request, we’ll remove material from public view while we address a rights issue.

Selected Collections

Digital Forsyth

A collaborative digital project among Forsyth County Public Library, Old Salem Museum and Gardens, Winston-Salem State University’s C.G. O’Kelly Library, and Wake Forest University’s Z. Smith Reynolds Library and Coy C. Carpenter Medical Library.
Special Collections & Archives Finding Aids

These finding aids provide online access to inventories of the archival and manuscript collections in the Special Collections Department. The funding for the majority of these came through an NCECHO LSTA grant.

From Our Archives

175th Anniversary Oral Histories

Interviews with and photographs of retired Wake Forest faculty describing life and work on campus
Baptist Historical Collection

Finding aids and lists to assist researchers interested in North Carolina Baptist church records
Biblical Recorder

The official journal of the North Carolina Baptist State Convention, reflecting the history of Baptist life and culture in North Carolina since 1834
Lloyd Winchell Biebigheiser Collection

Lloyd Winchell Biebigheiser (1884-1961), an architect and designer working during the construction of Wake Forest College’s new Winston-Salem campus, documented the progress of the construction with more than 500 slide photographs. This collection provides a photographic history of nearly every aspect of the Reynolda campus construction.
Casa Artom Scrapbook Collection

Guestbooks from Wake Forest’s house in Venice with student and faculty memories
History of Wake Forest

Four volumes covering the history of Wake Forest College from 1834 to 1967
Howler Yearbooks

Over 100 years of campus yearbooks available online
Old Gold and Black

Digital copies of Old Gold and Black publications from 1916 through 2000
StoryCorps: Winston-Salem

** Available via WFU campus network only ** StoryCorps came to Winston-Salem in 2009 and 120 of the resulting interviews are included in this collection.
Ira W. Thomas Collection

The diaries and sermon notes of Ira W. Thomas, a Baptist minister in northwestern North Carolina
University Lectures and Addresses

Digitized sound recordings of lectures, sermons, addresses, and oral histories relating to the University and its sponsored programs
WFU Website Archive

A collection of archived websites from the Wake Forest University domain

From Manuscripts & Rare Books

George L. Bright Civil War Diary

George L. Bright was a band member of the 46th Ohio Volunteer Infantry, a regiment in the Union Army during the American Civil War.
Wilbur J. Cash Collection

The Wilbur J. Cash Collection at Wake Forest University consists of some of Cash’s writings, including the Mind of the South in typescript, articles, review clippings, business, and personal correspondence of W.J. Cash and his wife Mary, photographs, and ephemera. Some of the items are here reproduced in digital format.
Civil War in the American South

Civil War in the American South provides a central portal to access digital collections from the Civil War Era (1850-1865) held by members of ASERL. Z. Smith Reynolds Library is a contributing institution.
John Wesley Clay Collection

Memoirs of missionary work by John Wesley Clay from 1924-1930
Confederate Broadsides

Scanned images of Civil War era poetry broadsides, indexed alphabetically by title
Giuseppe De Santis Film Stills

Film stills from selected films of Giuseppe De Santis (1917-1997), Italian film writer and director.
Dolmen Press Collection – Printing Blocks Series

The printing blocks of the Dolmen Press Collection include wood engravings, wood cuts, linocuts, and various metal plates ranging in date from 1902 to 1985, with the bulk of the blocks dating from the mid-1960s to 1985. A number of Cuala Press printing blocks are also included. Major artists featured in the collection include Tate Adams, Jack Coughlin, Louis LeBrocquy, Elizabeth Rivers, and Leonard Baskin.
Duke Tobacco Company Cigarette Cards

The Cigarette Cards collection consists of cards issued as advertisement for Duke Brothers and Company, Durham, N.C., and packed in Duke’s cigarettes.
Lipe Family Civil War Letters Collection

Letters and poems by Confederate soldiers telling of their experiences in the Civil War
Reynolda School Hiawatha Play Photographic Album

On May 25, 1921, the Katharine Smith Reynolds’ Reynolda School produced a dramatic version of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s epic poem The Song of Hiawatha.
Joseph E. Smith Music Manuscript Collection

In June 1999 Ralph C. Smith gave to the Rare Books and Manuscripts Department of the Z. Smith Reynolds Library a collection of over 200 manuscripts of classical music performers, composers, and conductors in honor of his brother Joseph E. Smith, who had assembled the collection.
Theater Actor Prints & Photographs

Early stage and film actors and actresses, performers, directors, and royalty from the 1880s through the 1930s
Herbert E. Valentine Collection

Civil War manuscript of Herbert E. Valentine
Samuel and Sarah Wait Collection

Scanned images and transcripts of selected material from the Wait collection; digital finding aid for the entire collection.
Ronald Watkins Collection

Selected digitized materials from the Ronald Watkins Collection

Other WFU Collections

Museum of Anthropology Online Artifact Database

The Museum of Anthropology at Wake Forest University creates awareness of global cultures by collecting, protecting, managing, and exhibiting archaeological artifacts, ethnographic objects, and visual arts of past and present peoples, and providing opportunities for intercultural learning. Their online database contains selected images for the contents of their collection.
Wake at Work Oral Histories

Students in a Wake Forest history class studied the history of work in America by interviewing those who make Wake Forest work: staff and faculty.