News and more from ZSR’s Special Collections & Archives
Two hundred years ago this month, the War of 1812 began. This three-year conflict with Britain was, as one recent commentator observed, “the Jan Brady of American conflicts for good reason: not only was it book-ended by two vastly more significant wars, but its causes weren’t sexy, its conclusions were muddy, and its most famous... Continue reading “The American Star, 1817” ›
Special Collections and Archives is pleased to announce the online publication of two new finding aids! The Bill Leonard Papers and the Wake Forest UniversitySchool of Divinity Collection have been processed and the findings aids are available online. These two new additions, as with the rest of our published finding aids, can be found at... Continue reading “Two New Finding Aids Available Online!” ›
Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930) was a man of many talents and many interests, but he is best known as the creator of the world’s most famous detective, Sherlock Holmes. Conan Doyle published his first story in 1879, while he was a medical student at the University of Edinburgh. After completing his studies, Conan Doyle made... Continue reading “The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Arthur Conan Doyle (1892)” ›
Students from History Through the Lens of Documentary Film researching in the Special Collections Reading Room In recent years, an active program of instruction and outreach has made Special Collections and Archives a destination for more and more Wake Forest students. In the 2011-12 academic year, 34 different classes – over 400 students – visited... Continue reading “Undergraduate Research in Special Collections and Archives” ›
The new Zeutschel Special Collections is proud to present the newest addition to our arsenal of digitization equipment, the Zeutschel 12000! After a two day training, we are ready to use the new machine for digital projects, ILL requests, and user initiated scans. All are welcome to come visit our new digitization lab and have... Continue reading “New Book Scanner In Special Collections” ›
Secotan priest In 1590 the Frankfurt printer and engraver Theodor deBry published a folio edition of Thomas Hariot’s Briefe and True Report of the New Found Land of Virginia with engraved illustrations based on John White’s watercolor paintings. DeBry’s engravings were the first images of indigenous North Americans that most 16th century Europeans had ever... Continue reading “A Briefe and True Report of the New Found Land of Virginia (1590), by Theodor deBry, Thomas Hariot, and John White” ›
The Society of American Archivists College and University Archives Section Winter 2012 newsletter, “The Academic Archivist“, includes news from ZSR! Section III, News from our colleagues, highlights the completion of the Gertrude and Max Hoffman Papers finding aid, The Gertrude and Max Hoffman Music Manuscript Collection, as well as The Biblical Recorder project. What a... Continue reading “Special Collections and Archives in “The Academic Archivist”” ›
We are happy to announce that the Wake Forest Catalogues and Bulletins are online! Thanks to the North Carolina Digital Heritage Center for doing the scanning and to Vicki Johnson for organizing and transporting the bulletins. Varying titles and binding made this project no easy feat, but the benefits far outweigh any challenges this project... Continue reading “Now Online: Catalogues and Bulletins of Wake Forest” ›
A genteel English woman of the 18th century had few resources to fall back on if her husband proved unable to support her financially. A girl’s education generally emphasized elegant accomplishments like drawing, music, and fine needlework, rather than practical skills. So when Elizabeth Blachrie Blackwell’s neer-do-well husband landed in a London debtor’s prison in... Continue reading “A Curious Herbal, By Elizabeth Blackwell (1739)” ›
In conjunction with the Words Awake celebration of Wake Forest writers, the spring exhibit in the Z. Smith Reynolds Library Special Collections and Archives features six Wake Forest authors whose papers reside in the archives and manuscripts collections. Laurence Stallings, Harold Hayes, John Charles McNeill, W.J. Cash, and Gerald Johnson received their undergraduate degrees from... Continue reading “Wake Forest Writers’ Archives on Exhibit” ›