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Students are currently in the ZSR Digitization Lab working on the library’s latest digitization project, featuring historic photographs of Wake Forest University’s deep history. Digitization of the University Archives Photograph Collection began in February, and captures images of people, places and events dating back as early as 1881.
The photos in this collection will include past presidents, faculty and staff, students, fraternities and sororities, commencements, sports, theatre productions, noteworthy visitors to the university, and more.
Production is being performed on our Epson Expression 10000XL scanners for best image quality. Materials digitized include both photographs and film negatives. Students also use Adobe Photoshop to import the master images from the scanner, as well as create the thumbnail and access derivative files.
Just over 2,000 color and black-and-white photographs have been digitized thus far. We will begin making images available online to the public by the end of Spring 2017. Stay tuned!
10 Comments on ‘Sneak Preview: New Digital Collection to Illustrate Wake Forest History’
Awesome pics! I can’t wait to browse when they are available online to the public! What a great resource!
This is a great long-overdue project, can’t wait to see it. Are there plans to integrate this with our Digital Forsyth collection? http://digitalforsyth.org/photos/page/6?q&zsr=on&st=1840&nd=2017&b=r&o=a&s=advanced&dv=true
Looking forward to the many gems of the University photograph collection being available!
Susan, many of these photos would be a great fit for Digital Forsyth. Thanks!
I am excited to see this collection in full!
I’m overcome with curiosity as to why coming back from a Baptist convention merits a ticker tape parade.
That is a good-sized batch of images so far! Digitization is a tiring task and I’m glad you have a workforce up to it. Contributing this to Digital Forsyth would be awesome!
Carol, the reception was in response to Tribble’s proposal to the Baptist State Convention in Wilmington about changing the method of how the trustees of Wake Forest College were selected, in the effort of obtaining university status. Read more here: https://wakespace.lib.wfu.edu/handle/10339/62781
Congratulations on this excellent collection. I recall being among the many students welcoming President Tribble back to campus on that fall afternoon in November 1963. WFU should renew its appreciation for President Tribble for his leadership in moving the campus from Wake Forest to Winston-Salem and then later in starting the work towards updating the trustees selection.
I am so excited for this collection! And I know our patrons are going to love it. Many thanks for your hard work on this.