Digital Collections
Special Collections & Archives
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Interviews with and photographs of retired Wake Forest faculty describing life and work on campus.
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30 Years of Performing Arts showcases materials related to Wake Forest University’s Secrest Artists Series between the years 1983 and 2013.
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This collection contains images from an African American families photograph scrapbook collection. Items from the scrapbook span from 1920 to 2000.
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Materials include birth and death dates, family information, sermon notes, notes of a student, and a Civil War letter.
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Recorded readings by poet and artist A. R. Ammons from ZSR Library's Special Collections.
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Twenty watercolor paintings by American poet, author and Wake Forest University alumni A. R. Ammons.
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Arthur Raymond Gallimore and his wife, Gladys S. Gallimore, served as foreign missionaries in China on behalf of the Southern Baptist Convention. This collection Includes selected materials from the physical collection
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Audio recordings containing presentations by prominent Southern Baptist pastors and church representatives at a number of evangelical conferences and annual meetings of the Convention in North Carolina from 1957-1980.
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Transcription of the diaries of Basil A. Thomasson written from 1853 to 1862. Thomasson was a farmer and school teacher in East Bend-Yadkinville, North Carolina.
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Digital reproductions of books and pamphlets held in the Special Collections & Archives of Z. Smith Reynolds Library at Wake Forest University.
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Features handwritten documents regarding Jones' plantations in Wake Forest, N.C.
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Eight bound scrapbooks in which students and other visitors have written their thoughts and reminiscences about their time at Casa Artom.
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Materials related to the meeting between professor and alumus Charles Lee Smith and Mohandas Gandhi in 1924.
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A periodical of national college news and photography published by the Associated Collegiate Press.
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These Civil War era poetry broadsides. consists of over 250 examples of poems written by Southerners and Confederate sympathizers during the Civil War.
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Home movie footage of former WFU professor David A. Hills and family
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Materials by and regarding Dr. David L. Smiley, Wake Forest University history professor and head of the Reid Staton Bible Class, including course materials and sermons.
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Collection of materials covering the COVID-19 experience at Wake Forest University
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This collection includes correspondence, notes, wood engravings, wood cuts, linocuts, various metal plates ranging in date from 1902 to 1985, with the bulk of the blocks dating from the mid-1960s to 1985.
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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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Eva Rodtwitt is a former lecturer in Romance languages at WFU. Images in this collection cover her early life in Norway during the Nazi occupation.
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This collection contains their correspondence while Carl was training and deployed with the Army, 1917-1920. A small amount of other items include military and biographical materials, as well as two portrait photographs of Carl.
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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.
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George Pennell was a Wake Forest College alumnus (1914), Board of Trustees member, and an attorney. His legal clients included the city of Asheville and circuses. This collection documents Pennell's personal and professional interests.
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Selected materials from the publishers' archive for Gertrude Stein's book, What Are Masterpieces? (Los Angeles: Conference Press, 1940), as well as several Stein manuscript fragments and notes, offprints, reviews, and other Stein ephemera.
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This collection includes Freedom of Information Act materials dating from 1947 to 1996.
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This collections features images from the Gray Family Collection and Graylyn Estate Collection.
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Notable members of the families include Judge Johnson Jay Hayes, state legislator James Madison Hayes, Jr., Esquire editor and writer Harold T. P. Hayes, and local businessman Kyle Hayes.
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Herbert Eugene Valentine served in the Union Army, 23rd Massachusetts Volunteers, Co. F. His manuscript memoirs relate various anecdotes about his army experiences, mostly in Virginia, North Carolina, and South Carolina.
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This oral history collection (2013-ongoing) consists of audio and video interviews conducted by Z. Smith Reynolds Library's Special Collections & Archives and other university departments and programs.
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Photographs from the collection of Houck Medford
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Collection of oral history interviews facilitated by former Wake Forest University History Professor Howell Smith
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H.A. Royster was an alumnus of Wake Forest College (Class of 1891), a medical doctor, and an author. This collection includes biographical information and other materials.
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Text and video materials from the Interdisciplinary Performance and the Liberal Arts Center (IPLACe)
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The diaries and sermon notes of Ira W. Thomas, a Baptist minister in northwestern North Carolina.
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John Brown White was an educator and the third president of Wake Forest College (1848-1853). This collection contains biographical and family genealogy information, a photograph of White, and correspondence.
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This collection features a digitized typescript of The Home Story Of A Walking Stick: Early History of the Biblical Recorder and Baptist Church in New Bern, North Carolina Told in Every Day Talk by John D. Whitford
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This collection includes memoirs of missionary work by printer, author, and Methodist missionary John Wesley Clay from 1924-1930.
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This collection includes Carter’s WWII POW journal during his time at the Stalag Luft III POW camp, “The Evacuation of Stalag Luft III, Sagan, Germany”, written by Carter, and a military portrait of Carter.
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Collection of signatures by famous composers and conductors. The collection includes signed letters, postcards, business cards, photographs, and concert programs.
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A collection of 3 pencil and watercolor images by artists Joseph Severn. These images are noted as being done on his way to Rome with John Keats.
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Katie Murray was a Southern Baptist missionary in China and Taiwan from 1922 until her retirement in 1962. Selected materials in this digital collection includes biographical/genealogical information, correspondence and photographs.
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Curt D. Baum was a Jewish boy of 17 years old when he was sent in 1937 to live in the United States from Germany to escape Nazi rule. This collection includes correspondence letters from Germany and family photographs of Baum and his family members.
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This collection contains the manuscripts and correspondence of Laurence Stallings, writer and Wake Forest College alumnus.
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This collection consists of 27 letters by 7 different Confederate soldiers, telling of their experiences in the Civil War. Includes a poem and unidentified notes.
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Lloyd Winchell Biebigheiser was an architect and designer working during the construction of Wake Forest College’s new Winston-Salem campus. This collection provides a photographic history of nearly every aspect of the Reynolda campus construction.
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A collection of music manuscripts from the collection of famed vaudevillians & performers Max and Gertrude Hoffman.
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Stunning photographs from the collection of Max and Gertrude Hoffman of Vaudeville and many stage performances from 1900-1956.
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A short-run weekly publication focusing on activities of Winston-Salem society. It contains photographs of notable women, book reviews, articles about sporting evenings, social clubs, promotions, and theatrical plays.
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Ephemeral materials related to churches or associations that are associated with Baptist communities of North Carolina and surrounding areas.
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The majority of the N.C. Baptist Church Records contain minutes of meetings, membership lists, and financial records.
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Finding aids and inventories of church records in the Department of Special Collections & Archives.
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Odus McCoy Mull was a lawyer, businessman, state politician, and active Wake Forest College alumnus from Shelby, North Carolina. This collection contains Mull's correspondence, subject files, and other business, legal, personal, and political papers.
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Digital copies of Wake Forest University’s Old Gold and Black student newspaper. Issues span from 1916 through 2018.
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Collection of mostly print materials regarding Reverend Harold L. McKinnish, revered N.C. Baptist preacher.
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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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Selected digitized materials from the Ronald Watkins Collection. This collection includes materials from his time at Harrow School for Boys in Middlesex England as well as audio lectures on various Shakespearean plays and topics.
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Scanned images and transcripts of selected material from the Wait collection; digital finding aid for the entire collection.
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Sanders Meredith Ingram attended Wake Forest College in the first class, 1834-1835, and then returned in 1838-1840. He served in the Mexican War as a volunteer from Tennessee, and briefly as a lieutenant in the 38th Regt. North Carolina Infantry during the Civil War.
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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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This collection includes election materials, such as advertisements and results, budget materials, judicial committee materials, leadership conference materials, and information and records regarding the legislature.
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Weekly newspaper published by the Asheville Baptist Publishing Company
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Early stage and film actors and actresses, performers, directors, and royalty from the 1880s through the 1930s.
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This collection covers WFU's 1968 football team, their historic victory over UNC Chapel that year, and 12 of the player's pledge to return for a reunion in 1975.
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Digital copies of The Wake Forest Review student and alumni publication
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Digitized catalog cards of The Wake Forest Student, the Wake Forest literary magazine from 1882 to 1995. The title changed to "Three to four ounces" with the Fall 1995 issue.
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Materials from the Undergraduate Research and Creative Activities Center (URECA) at Wake Forest University
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Ephemeral materials related to individuals associated with Wake Forest University and/or Baptist communities of North Carolina.
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Selections from Wake Forest University's Audio Recordings collection.
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This photograph collection covers Wake Forest University’s deep history. It captures images of people, places and events dating back as early as 1881.
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A compilation of smaller digital collections relative to Wake Forest University
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This audio collection includes the many and varied voices of Wake Forest--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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Class project focuses on faculty and staff work experiences.
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Publications covering the history of Wake Forest University's debate teams
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This collection contains materials related to Wake Forest Baptist Church, which was established in 1956 following Wake Forest College's move to Winston-Salem, N.C.
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Handwritten minutes from Wake Forest College Board of Trustees meetings
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These materials are related to the early records of Wake Forest University
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Handwritten faculty meeting meetings from Wake Forest College beginning from 1856
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Digital copies of Wake Forest University Magazine publications from 1928 to 2019.
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Photographic images, reports and other information pertaining to people, places and events related to the original Wake Forest campus in Wake Forest, NC.
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This collection includes sound, video recordings, and print media of sports events, features and footage related to Wake Forest University Athletics.
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Wake Forest University fact books spanning from 1998 to 2021.
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Wake Forest University Reynolda Campus faculty handbooks from 2011 to 2022
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This collection 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.
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This collection includes handwritten bills of sale of enslaved African Americans owned by Crenshaw, as well as other handwritten financial documents dating back as early as 1817.
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William L. Hughes was a longtime member of Wake Forest University’s grounds staff, and close friend of WFU President James Ralph Scales. This collection includes early 20th century African American images of Hughes’ family.
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Digitized materials from the William Louis Poteat Papers collection. Poteat was an educator, Wake Forest alumnus (Class of 1877), biology professor, and President of Wake Forest College from 1905-1927.
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This collection includes materials from soldiers in the war. It includes a songbook, a journal, uniform materials, and research pertaining to U.S. military personnel.
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Includes 134 color photographs of propaganda posters pertaining to World War I publicizing efforts.