University Archives Oil Portraits Collection
Wake Forest University was started in February 1834 as Wake Forest Manual Labor Institute and became Wake Forest College under the guidance of its first president Samuel Wait; in 1950, the institution moved to Winston-Salem, N.C. This collection contains portraits of WFU professors and administrators from around the 1950s and 1960s.
On this page
Summary Information
- Repository
- Z. Smith Reynolds Library Special Collections and Archives
- Title
- University Archives Oil Portraits Collection
- Date
- circa 1950-1969 (inclusive)
- Extent
- 10.0 linear feet / 5 oversize boxes
- ID
- RG10.3
Biographical and Historical Note
Wake Forest University was started in February 1834 as Wake Forest Manual Labor Institute and became Wake Forest College under the guidance of its first president Samuel Wait. In 1950, then-College President Harold W. Tribble broke ground on the Winston-Salem campus, also known as the Reynolda campus, established with a land donation from Charles H. Babcock and Mary Reynolds Babcock.
Collection Overview
This collection contains portraits of WFU professors circa 1950-1969. They appear to be oil paintings on some type of thin board, they are not on canvas.
Administrative Information
- Publication Information
- Finding aid prepared by Processed by Iman Ahmed with assistance from Stephanie Bennett, 2017 October
- Access Restrictions
- Collection is open for researchers.
- Copyright Notice
- The nature of the WFU Z. Smith Reynolds Library Special Collections and Archives means that copyright or other information about restrictions may be difficult or even impossible to determine despite reasonable efforts. The Archives and Special Collections of ZSR Library claims only physical ownership of most materials. The materials from our collections are made available for use in research, teaching, and private study, pursuant to the U.S. Copyright Law. The user must assume full responsibility for any use of the materials, including but not limited to, infringement of copyright and publication rights of reproduced materials. Any materials used for academic research or otherwise should be fully credited with the source.
- Preferred Citation
- University Archives Oil Portraits (RG10.3), Z. Smith Reynolds Library Special Collections and Archives, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC, USA.