Digital Collections

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  175th Anniversary Oral Histories

  Interviews with and photographs of retired Wake Forest faculty describing life and work on campus

• A. R. Ammons Audio Collection

  Recorded Readings by A. R. Ammons from ZSR Library's Special Collections

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  Books

  Four volumes covering the history of Wake Forest College from 1834 to 1967

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  Casa Artom Scrapbook Collection

  Eight bound scrapbooks in which students and other visitors have written their thoughts and reminiscences about their time at Casa Artom

• Charles Lee Smith Collection

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  Confederate Broadsides

  Scanned images of Civil War era poetry broadsides, indexed alphabetically by title

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  Dolmen Press Collection - Printing Block Series

  The printing blocks of the Dolmen Press Collection include wood engravings, wood cuts, linocuts, and various metal plates ranging in date from 1902 to 1985, with the bulk of the blocks dating from the mid-1960s to 1985. A number of Cuala Press printing blocks are also included. Major artists featured in the collection include Tate Adams, Jack Coughlin, Louis LeBrocquy, Elizabeth Rivers, and Leonard Baskin.

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  Duke Tobacco Company Cigarette Cards

  The Cigarette Cards collection consists of cards issued as advertisement for Duke Brothers and Company, Durham, N.C., and packed in Duke's cigarettes.

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  George L. Bright Civil War Diary

  George L. Bright was a band member of the 46th Ohio Volunteer Infantry (or 46th OVI), an infantry regiment in the Union Army during the American Civil War. Bright's diary details weather and marching conditions from January to September 1862 and in specific locations including Camp Logan, Ohio; Columbus, Ohio; and Paducah, Kentucky. Bright's entries also note days when he played his horn for regimental funerals.

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  Giuseppe De Santis Film Stills

  Film stills from selected films of Giuseppe De Santis (1917-1997), Italian film writer and director.

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  Herbert E. Valentine Civil War Diary

  Civil War manuscript of Herbert E. Valentine

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  Ira W. Thomas Collection

  The diaries and sermon notes of Ira W. Thomas, a Baptist minister in northwestern North Carolina

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  John Wesley Clay Brazil Mission Memoirs

  Memoirs of missionary work by John Wesley Clay from 1924-1930

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  Joseph E. Smith Music Manuscript Collection

  Collection of signatures by famous composers and conducters

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  Lipe Family Civil War Letters

  The Lipe (or Leib) family lived in Deep Well (now Mooresville), Iredell County, North Carolina. The collection consists of 27 letters by 7 different Confederate soldiers, telling of their experiences in the Civil War. Includes a poem and unidentified notes. Correspondents include J. L. Lipe, George L. Kistler, W. A. Wallace, Thomas L. Purdie, R. M. Emerson, James C. Moore, Elburtus M. Kennerly, and Eliza Ann Lipe.

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  Lloyd Winchell Biebigheiser Collection

  Lloyd Winchell Biebigheiser (1884-1961), an architect and designer working during the construction of Wake Forest College’s new Winston-Salem campus, documented the progress of the construction with more than 500 slide photographs. This collection provides a photographic history of nearly every aspect of the Reynolda campus construction.

• Max and Gertrude Hoffmann Music Manuscript Collection

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  Max and Gertrude Hoffmann Photograph Collection

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  North Carolina Baptist Historical Collection

  Finding aids and inventories of church records in the Department of Special Collections & Archives

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  Old Gold and Black

  Digital copies of Old Gold and Black publications from 1916 through 2000

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  Reynolda School Hiawatha Play Photographic Album

  On May 25, 1921, the Katharine Smith Reynolds’ Reynolda School produced a dramatic version of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s epic poem The Song of Hiawatha.

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  Ronald Watkins Collection

  Selected digitized materials from the Ronald Watkins Collection

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  Samuel & Sarah Wait Collection

  Scanned images and transcripts of selected material from the Wait collection; digital finding aid for the entire collection.

• Special Collections and Archives Finding Aids

  These finding aids provide online access to inventories of the archival and manuscript collections in the Special Collections Department. The funding for the majority of these came through an NCECHO LSTA grant.

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  Theater Actor Prints and Photographs Collection

  Early stage and film actors and actresses, performers, directors, and royalty from the 1880s through the 1930s

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  University Archives Audio Recordings Reel to Reel Collection

• Voices of Wake Forest

  This digital collection brings together the many and varied voices of Wake Forest--come listen to interviews, oral histories, and presentations from WFU administrators, alumni, staff, students, and faculty, including "Mr. Wake Forest" himself, Dr. Ed Wilson.

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  Wake at Work Oral Histories

  Class project focuses on faculty and staff work experiences

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  Wilbur J. Cash Collection

  The Wilbur J. Cash Collection at Wake Forest University consists of some of Cash's writings, including the Mind of the South in typescript, articles, review clippings, business, and personal correspondence of W.J. Cash and his wife Mary, photographs, and ephemera. Some of the items are here reproduced in digital format.