News and more from ZSR’s Special Collections & Archives
Megan Blaney has worked for Special Collections for almost a year. Although relatively new to our team, Megan has proved herself an integral part of Craig’s Preservation student workforce. This summer she has made boxes for books, un-framed various documents from the University Archives, and sorted type from the Dolmen Press (pictured). As you well... Continue reading “What Are You Working On? With Megan Blaney” ›
Thursday, June 20 3:00 p.m. ZSR Library Special Collections and Archives Reading Room Dr. Ed Blum of San Diego State University, who is currently in residence as a 2013 ZSR Provost’s Grant researcher, will give an informal talk about his current research. Ed is co-author of The Color of Christ: The Son of God and... Continue reading “Provost’s Grant Researcher Presentation: Sin and the Civil War” ›
On nearly any list of list of best American Novels you will find Mark Twain’s Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. But it might easily never have existed. Twain nearly abandoned his project midway through its writing, and its publication was temporarily derailed by a practical joke. Twain’s first novel, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, was published... Continue reading “Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, by Mark Twain (1885)” ›
The Special Collections and Archives department is happy to announce that the Wake Forest Commencement Programs are now digitized and available online! We took our programs to UNC-Chapel Hill to be scanned as part of the Digital NC project. These are some of the most requested items in our collection and are a great help... Continue reading “Wake Forest Commencement Programs are online!” ›
For the past few months, I’ve been preserving a collection of letters written during the American Civil War. These letters are all written by Major John W. Cameron, and were written during April and May of 1862. All the letters were sent from Goldsboro, NC by Major Cameron. These letters are what I believe to... Continue reading “Preserving the Jonathan W. Cameron Civil War letters” ›
Special Collections and Archives is once again making news in the SAA College and University Archives Section Spring 2013 newsletter “The Academic Archivist.” In this publication we announce the completion of Clarence Herbert New and Wayne Oates’ Papers. Stay tuned for Fall 2013! Continue reading “Spring 2013 Academic Archivist” ›
Tanya Zanish-Belcher Director, Special Collections & University Archivist I am so pleased and proud to be joining the ZSR Library as Director of Special Collections & University Archivist! My professional career path has led me here to Winston-Salem after 17 years as Head of Special Collections at Iowa State University in Ames, Iowa. I look forward... Continue reading “Meet Our New Director!” ›
Special Collections and Archives is overjoyed to announce the completion of the Henlee Hulix Barnette Papers finding aid!!! This finding aid has been a long time coming and we are thrilled to have it finished. Housed in 91 boxes and covering sixteen different series of categories, the Henlee Barnette papers cover many topics of great... Continue reading “The Henlee Hulix Barnette Papers Finding Aid is Complete!” ›
I first found Charles Dickens while at the Worrell House in 1979. I have read many of his works over the years and have enjoyed them immensely. When I started working in Special Collections & Archives, I was very excited to find out that we have some of Dickens’ works in the original parts. One... Continue reading “Finding Charles Dickens” ›
For several months, I’ve been working with Wake Forest Professor Roberta Morosini, a Medievalist, on an exhibit about Boccaccio and the “Trecento” (14th century). The exhibit focuses on stories from Giovanni Boccaccio‘s most well known work, The Decameron. The Decameron, which was written in 1350, means ’10 days’ in Greek, and consists of a set... Continue reading “Boccaccio and 14th Century Florence Exhibit” ›