News and more from ZSR’s Special Collections & Archives
While accessioning materials into the University Archives today, I came across the Wake Forest University Civil Defense Manual from 1966. A small but very detailed document outlines the shelter locations, the supplies (food, sanitary, and medical), locations of telephones in the shelters, and locations of janitor’s closets with hoses for filling water drums. The Wake... Continue reading “It Was A Simpler Time?” ›
To commemorate the 150th anniversary of the Civil War, ZSR has contributed four collections to the online portal “Civil War in the American South.” The portal includes digital versions of collections from 1850-1865 held by members of the Association of Southeastern Research Libraries. The collections contributed by ZSR are: Confederate Broadsides Collection – Over 250... Continue reading “Civil War Collections & the Biblical Recorder Now Online” ›
Detail from the title page of the 1612 octavo edition of the King James Bible God’s Sacred Word Amongst UsHistoric Bibles from the ZSR Library Rare Books CollectionOn exhibit in the Special Collections Reading RoomSeptember 2011-January 2012 The title of this exhibit, God’s Sacred Word Amongst Us, comes from the dedication of the English translation... Continue reading “Historic Bibles on View” ›
We are so happy to have our students back for the semester and are eager to show the world what we are working on. Pictured is student assistant Palmer Holton holding pulp fiction from the Clarence Herbert New Collection (MS577). This collection contains a wide variety of materials including photographs, maps, manuscripts, and printed materials.... Continue reading “What Are You Working On? With Palmer Holton” ›
God’s Sacred Word Amongst Us: Historic Bibles from the Z. Smith Reynolds Library Rare Books Collection On exhibit in the Special Collections Reading Room, September 2011-January 2012 Title page from the 1612 octavo edition of the King James Bible The title of this exhibit, God’s Sacred Word Amongst Us, comes from the dedication of the... Continue reading “God’s Sacred Word Amongst Us: Historic Bibles from the ZSR Library Rare Books Collection” ›
Hans Holbein the Younger (1497-1543) is now best known as portrait painter of some of the most famous figures of Renaissance Europe, including Erasmus, Thomas More, and King Henry VIII of England. But as a young artist in his native Basel, Holbein also worked as an illustrator, producing drawings that would be reproduced in woodcuts... Continue reading “Images of the Old Testament, by Hans Holbein (1549)” ›
In December 2010, ZSR Library released a new interface for finding aids describing archival collections from Special Collections and Archives. We announced the new interface in a blog post, where we listed some of the great features of zsr.wfu.edu/findingaids: A look and feel like the ZSR website Fully searchable contents, including container lists Browse by... Continue reading “Society of American Archivists features ZSR Special Collections” ›
The Special Collections and Archives Department has four new finding aids available online! The Germaine Bree papers finding aid Maya Angelou Film and Theater Collection finding aid Gertrude and Max Hoffman papers finding aid Inventory of the Thomas F. and Louise Gossett Papers. Many thanks to student assistants Kathleen Hill, Rachel Ernst, and Carolyn Jones... Continue reading “New Finding Aids Available for Researchers” ›
Z. Smith Reynolds Library has contributed its four collections related to the Civil War to the digital collections portal “Civil War in the American South.” The portal includes digital collections from the Civil War Era (1850-1865) held by members of the Association of Southeastern Research Libraries (ASERL). The collections contributed by ZSR are: Confederate Broadsides... Continue reading “ZSR contributes to ASERL Civil War portal” ›
Big news from the partially processed collection of Allen Mandelbaum‘s papers. A MLIS graduate student and WFU Latin professor, Brian Warren, has been interning this summer in Special Collections and Archives, working specifically on processing the collection of Allen Mandelbaum’s papers, translations, and the large book collection that came with these materials. He made an... Continue reading “Ungaretti and Palinurus” ›