Special Collections & Archives

A proclamation by the Governor and council of an unknown state for a day of fasting and prayer on the occasion of "Braddock's Defeat" July 9, 1755, during the French and Indian War.

Wake Forest University's Graduate School of Arts and Sciences offers masters and doctoral programs and interdisciplinary and joint degrees with other WFU schools. Degree programs include 12 areas of PhD study in the sciences as well as 30 master's degrees in the arts and sciences. Materials present include brochures, minutes, newsletters, and bylaws.

The Master of Arts in Liberal Studies program at Wake Forest University is devoted to the interdisciplinary examination of human ideas and values. This collection includes materials used to create a promotional brochure for the Masters of Arts in Liberal Studies program.

Grady R. Pulliam, Jr. was a Winston-Salem, N.C. native and Triad Insurance Company executive who was a U.S. Army servicemember in Europe during World War II. Materials in this collection include letters and postcards sent to his wife Gladys and daughter Ann, other family, and friends, training manuals and notes, maps, a timeline of his service, programs, booklets, photographs related to the military and to European culture, K-type rations, magazines, and uniform clothing and related items. Some materials originate after the war but are related to his service, such as correspondence with veterans from his unit. Some materials are in French, but most of the collection is in English.

Grassy Creek Baptist Church was constituted in 1762. Included in this collection is a dismission letter for Frances Hart.

The Gray Family Papers consist of the personal and professional materials of members of the Gray family of Winston-Salem, North Carolina. This collection dates from the late 19th century to the 21st century and contains of photograph albums, scrapbooks, newspaper clippings, publications, and correspondence. Extended family members as well as other community members are documented in this collection as well.

Gray Smith was a student at Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary, Wake Forest, North Carolina, and Associate Editor of the Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary campus newspaper.

The Graylyn Conference Center is a hotel and executive conference center located in Winston-Salem, N.C. Materials in this collection include a dedication program, reports, survey's, Graylyn Conference Center flier, and booklets regarding the estate's history and building.

The Graylyn Estate was originally the home of Bowman Gray, Senior, and Nathalie Lyons Gray. The Graylyn Estate collection contains information about the planning, construction, and functioning of the buildings and grounds of Graylyn. Materials include blueprints, photographs and negatives of decor, design, interiors and exteriors, receipts for building materials and labor, architectural plans of Luther Lashmit, correspondence with architects and builders, oral histories about the estate on audio and video cassettes, research notes from Thomas Gray, landscape designs from Thomas Sears, and materials collected about the estate and related people by longtime Wake Forest University history professor J. Edwin Hendricks. The collection also documents the fire that destroyed part of the estate in the 1980s and its rebuilding.

Great Falls Manufacturing Company was a textile mill complex in Rockingham, North Carolina

The papers of this New York family consist of military and civilian appointments of Worden Griffin as Sgt. Inf. 49th Brig., N.Y., 1818; Ensign, 123rd Inf. Regt. N.Y., 1821 (signed by Dewitt Clinton; as Lt. Inf. 123rd N.Y., 1823; Capt. Inf., 123rd N.Y., 1828; and as Inspector of Leather, St. Lawrence County, 1828. There is also a deed (land indenture) from the State Of Iowa, 1847. The collection contains two diaries, 1863-64, of Thomas Frazier Griffin, soldier in the 13th Iowa Regiment, 17th Army Corps, 6th Division, Army of the Tennessee.

Grove Park Baptist Church (Clinton, N.C.) was constituted April 15, 1954, and is a member of the Eastern Baptist Association. This collection includes church records from 1954 to 2012.