In honor of the 50th anniversary of Earth Day, Special Collections & Archives would like to share the following resources. These include items available online as well as traditional records available upon request. Please contact us at archives@wfu.edu

Online Resources

For best results, please use the following search terms: Earth Day, Earth Day Fair, ecology, ecological, environment, environmental movement, sustainability

• The Howler yearbook
• Old Gold and Black newspaper
• The Student literary magazine
• University Photographs
• Wake Forest Magazine
• Wake Forest University Website Archive

Resources and Accessions

• Academic Affairs Office. Vice President Lu Leake Records (RG 22.2), Box 1, Folder 51
• Academic Departments. Anthropology, Department and Museum of Anthropology Records (RG16.1), Box 5, Folder 96
• Academic Departments. Art Department. START Gallery Records (RG 16.2.2), Box 1, Folder 3
• General University Organizations. Academic Urban Affairs Consortium Records (RG 13.11)
• Alliance of Baptists Records (MS588), Box 22
• University Archives Photograph Collection (RG10.1), Associated Press Earth Day Photograph
• Audio Recordings: Reel to Reels. (RG 11.1) Dr. Austin Montgomery, “Water Pollution Abatement – Progress and Prospects,” 1970 April 22
• Dean of the College. Thomas E. Mullen Records (RG 4.1.9), Box 1, Folder 51
• Finance and Administration. Office of Sustainability Records (RG 54.2), Box 1
• Henlee Hulix Barnette Papers (MS474), Box 23 and Box 44
• President’s Office. James Ralph Scales Records (RG 1.11), Boxes 27, 38, 40
• School of Divinity. Food, Health, and Ecological Well-Being Program Records (RG 46.1)
• Student Organizations. Student Government Records (RG 8.19)
• University Archives Photograph Collection (RG 10.1), Box 63, Folder 16
• University Archives Posters (Accession 2014.0034)
• General University Organizations. Urban Affairs Institute. J. Van Wagstaff Records (RG13.12)
• Vertical Files Collection (RG15), Boxes 65, 66

Published Materials

Not all published materials are listed here. Please search our catalog for more materials regarding sustainability and Earth Day.

• Crowe, Thomas Rain. The end of Eden: writings of an environmental activist. Nicholasville, KY: Wind Publications, 2008. (GE195 C769 2008)
• Solt, Roger E., and Ross K. Smith. Renewable energy: a sustainable debate. Winston-Salem, NC: Wake Forest University, 1997. (TJ807.9.U6 R46 1997)
• ZSR Special Collections and Archives Digital Collections