Interviews with and photographs of retired Wake Forest faculty describing life and work on campus.

This collection contains images from an African American families photograph scrapbook collection. Items from the scrapbook span from 1920 to 2000.

Recorded readings by poet and artist A. R. Ammons from ZSR Library's Special Collections.

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

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.

Features handwritten documents regarding Jones' plantations in Wake Forest, N.C.

Materials related to the meeting between professor and alumus Charles Lee Smith and Mohandas Gandhi in 1924.

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.

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.

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.

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.

This collections features images from the Gray Family Collection and Graylyn Estate Collection.

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.

Photographs from the collection of Houck Medford

Text and video materials from the Interdisciplinary Performance and the Liberal Arts Center (IPLACe)

Collection of oral history interviews facilitated by former Wake Forest University History Professor J. Howell Smith

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

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.

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.

Kurt 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.

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.

A collection of music manuscripts from the collection of famed vaudevillians & performers Max and Gertrude Hoffman.

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.

Ephemeral materials related to churches or associations that are associated with Baptist communities of North Carolina and surrounding areas.

Finding aids and inventories of church records in the Department of Special Collections & Archives.

Digital copies of Wake Forest University’s Old Gold and Black student newspaper. Issues span from 1916 through 2018.

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.