The Max and Gertrude Hoffmann Music Manuscript Collection is finally complete and available for use. With 170 titles represented in various levels of completion, we anticipate this collection to be a delight to musicians, composers, and anyone interested in vaudeville orchestration. These music manuscripts are only a portion of the larger Max and Gertrude Hoffmann... Continue reading “Max and Gertrude Hoffmann Music Manuscript Collection now online” ›
The Society of American Archivists states: “October is American Archives Month-an opportunity to raise awareness about the value of archives and archivists. There is strength in numbers, and our collective voice can be more powerful than individual voices when we set aside time each year to celebrate our collections.” In an effort to localize and... Continue reading “Every Week is Archives Week!” ›
A story within a story, three members of the Special Collections and Archives team recount the discovery, preservation, and access of an exciting and well-traveled gem from the collection. We hope readers will enjoy the story and keep the relevance and enduring nature of the “Lebanon Greys” alive for at least another century! Vicki: It... Continue reading “A Civil War Gem found in the Archives (by Vicki, Craig and Rebecca)” ›
On Friday, October 28 at 3:00 p.m., ZSR Special Collections & Archives in conjunction with the Wake Forest School of Divinity will host “The King James Bible: Its Legend and Legacy.” The lecture and exhibit will focus on the monumental version of the English Bible which celebrates its 400th anniversary this year. The story of... Continue reading “The King James Bible: Its Legend and Legacy” ›
If one says “Red” (the name of a color) and there are 50 people listening, it can be expected that there will be 50 reds in their minds. And one can be sure that all these reds will be very different. Josef Albers, Interaction of Color (1963) The artist Joseph Albers (1888-1976) was born in... Continue reading “Formulation : Articulation, by Josef Albers (1972)” ›
Meet Chelsea Hosch. The face of the Special Collection and Archives reference desk on Tuesday and Thursday mornings, Chelsea has been doing excellent work! She is working on inputting Biographical Files into Archivists’ Toolkit and scanning all of the images in these files for a long term, highly anticipated digital project. Chelsea is a sophomore,... Continue reading “What Are You Working On? With Chelsea Hosch” ›
As the air turns crisp, I wanted to highlight some of the great collaborative work that has been happening between Special Collections and Archives and Resource Services this past Spring and Summer. In the Spring, Audra and Carolyn teamed up to begin exporting MARC records from the Archivists’ Toolkit. It was the beginning of a... Continue reading “New MARC Records!” ›
Joseph Franz von Goez’s 1783 adaptation of Lenardo und Blandine “in 160 impassioned designs” may be the world’s first graphic novel. Based on a ballad by German poet Gottfried August Bürger, Goez’s book tells the story of doomed lovers Lenardo and Blandine in a series of captioned copper etchings. Bürger’s poem is itself based on... Continue reading “Lenardo und Blandine, illustrated by Joseph Franz von Goez (1783)” ›
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” ›