30 Years of Performing Arts showcases materials related to Wake Forest University’s Secrest Artists Series between the years 1983 and 2013.

Materials include birth and death dates, family information, sermon notes, notes of a student, and a Civil War letter.

Twenty watercolor paintings by American poet, author and Wake Forest University alumni A. R. Ammons.

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.

Digital reproductions of books and pamphlets held in the Special Collections & Archives of Z. Smith Reynolds Library at Wake Forest University.

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

This collection documents child care services for faculty and staff at Wake Forest University.

These Civil War era poetry broadsides. consists of over 250 examples of poems written by Southerners and Confederate sympathizers during the Civil War. 

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.

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.

Edwin Graves Wilson (b. February 1, 1923), known affectionately as "Mr. Wake Forest," is Professor Emeritus of English and Provost Emeritus for Wake Forest University. This collection contains selected materials related to Wilson's work.

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.

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.

This collection includes Freedom of Information Act materials dating from 1947 to 1996.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

This collection includes memoirs of missionary work by printer, author, and Methodist missionary John Wesley Clay from 1924-1930.

Collection of signatures by famous composers and conductors. The collection includes signed letters, postcards, business cards, photographs, and concert programs.

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.

This collection contains the manuscripts and correspondence of Laurence Stallings, writer and Wake Forest College alumnus.

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.

Stunning photographs from the collection of Max and Gertrude Hoffman of Vaudeville and many stage performances from 1900-1956.

Selected materials in this collection document the years of Nathan Hatch's presidency at Wake Forest University.

The majority of the N.C. Baptist Church Records contain minutes of meetings, membership lists, and financial records.

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.

Collection of mostly print materials regarding Reverend Harold L. McKinnish, revered N.C. Baptist preacher.

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.

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.

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.

Contains selected items intended to be easily accessed and used in instruction within Special Collection and Archives, Z. Smith Reynolds Library.

Weekly newspaper published by the Asheville Baptist Publishing Company

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.

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.

Ephemeral materials related to individuals associated with Wake Forest University and/or Baptist communities of North Carolina.

This photograph collection covers Wake Forest University’s deep history. It captures images of people, places and events dating back as early as 1881.

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.

Publications covering the history of Wake Forest University's debate teams

Handwritten minutes from Wake Forest College Board of Trustees meetings

Handwritten faculty meeting meetings from Wake Forest College beginning from 1856

Photographic images, reports and other information pertaining to people, places and events related to the original Wake Forest campus in Wake Forest, NC.

Wake Forest University fact books spanning from 1998 to 2021.

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.

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.

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.