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I know it’s February but – happy new year! I’m here to provide a look at some newly published or recently updated finding aids for Special Collections and Archives manuscript and University records. Just in case your New Year’s resolutions include archival research, here are some collections that might attract your attention.
The following is an incomplete list of manuscript collections with newly published finding aids:
- Baptist Correspondence of Amanda Bellamy Smart (MS894)
- Bookplates Collection (MS879)
- Bear Creek Baptist Church (Mocksville, N.C.) Records (MS736)
- Daisy Ghelson Mitchell and Daisie Allen Mitchell Papers (MS568)
- Washington Manly Wingate Papers (MS123)
- William Kendall Dingledine World War I Collection (MS890)
- World War I Poster Collection (MS882)
The following is an incomplete list of University record collections with newly published finding aids:
- Babcock Graduate School of Management. Alumni Records (RG18.4)
- Babcock Graduate School of Management. Publications and Reports Records (RG18.3)
- Babcock Graduate School of Management. Commencement, Convocation, and Other Event Ceremonies Records (RG18.6)
- Calloway School of Business and Accountancy Records (RG26.0)
- Finance and Administration. Office of Sustainability Records (RG54.2)
- School of Business. Admissions and News Records RG26.3)
- School of Divinity. Academic and Student Life Records (RG46.4)
- School of Divinity. Alumni and Former Students Records (RG46.5)
- School of Divinity. Board of Visitors Records (RG46.7)
- School of Divinity. Commencement, Convocation, and Event Records (RG46.8)
- School of Divinity. Faculty and Staff Records (RG46.6)
- School of Divinity. Food, Health, and Ecological Well-Being Program Records (RG46.1)
- Student Organizations. Gay Straight Student Alliance Records (RG8.22)
- Office of the Provost. Women’s Center Records (RG22.4)
- Office of Undergraduate Admissions Records (RG35)
An incomplete list of collection finding aids that have had new additions or been updated otherwise include:
- Academic Departments. Physical Education Department. Magnolia Festival Records (RG16.19.1)
- Cashie Baptist Church (Windsor, N.C.) Records (MS740)
- Motsinger Family Papers (MS449)
- Student Organizations. Student Clubs Records (RG8.56)
- University Archives Photograph Collection (RG10.1)
More to come after the semester’s end, as the work of our student assistants, library faculty, and Special Collections staff continues through the spring. If you have questions about our collections and University records, please contact us at 336-758-6175 or archives@wfu.edu.
7 Comments on ‘Newly Published and Updated Collections, Winter 2019’
The World War I Poster Collection attracted my attention! Great work!
You’ve been busy! So good to see these collections get processed!
Wow! This is an impressive list! (and a ton of work!) It’s wonderful to have these processed and accessible! Thank you!
Excellent progress, good work!
I love that we have a bookplate collection! Perhaps I should add archival research to my 2019 goals… 😉
I’m going to dig around in that photograph collection! Thanks for sharing your progress!
Well done my good and fruitful archivist.