Digital Collections
Our Collections
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Cigarette Cards
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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Confederate Broadsides
Scanned images of Civil War era poetry broadsides, indexed alphabetically by title
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Digital Forsyth
A collaborative digital project among Forsyth County Public Library, Old Salem Museum and Gardens, Winston-Salem State University's C.G. O'Kelly Library, and Wake Forest University's Z. Smith Reynolds Library and Coy C. Carpenter Medical Library.
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Dolmen Press Collection - Finding Aid, 1890 - 1987
This finding aid consists of information relating to the publications and printing jobs of the Dolmen Press, the administrative and financial documents of its operation, and the design work and personal papers of Liam Miller.
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Dolmen Press Collection - Printing Block Series
The printing blocks of the Dolmen Press Collection include wood engravings, wood cuts, linocuts, and various metal plates ranging in date from 1902 to 1985, with the bulk of the blocks dating from the mid-1960s to 1985. A number of Cuala Press printing blocks are also included. Major artists featured in the collection include Tate Adams, Jack Coughlin, Louis LeBrocquy, Elizabeth Rivers, and Leonard Baskin.
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Gertrude Stein Manuscript Collection
Typescript, galley proofs, and other materials relating to Stein's book What Are Masterpieces?
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Herbert E. Valentine Collection
Civil War manuscript of Herbert E. Valentine
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Ira W. Thomas Collection
The diaries and sermon notes of Ira W. Thomas, a Baptist minister in northwestern North Carolina
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John Wesley Clay Collection
This collection is in development.
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Joseph E. Smith Music Manuscript Collection
In June 1999 Ralph C. Smith gave to the Rare Books and Manuscripts Department of the Z. Smith Reynolds Library a collection of over 200 manuscripts of classical music performers, composers, and conductors in honor of his brother Joseph E. Smith, who had assembled the collection.
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Lloyd Winchell Biebigheiser Collection
Lloyd Winchell Biebigheiser (1884-1961), an architect and designer working during the construction of Wake Forest College's new Winston-Salem campus, documented the progress of the construction with more than 500 slide photographs. This collection provides a photographic history of nearly every aspect of the Reynolda campus construction.
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Maya Angelou Film and Theater Collection - Finding Aid
The Maya Angelou Film and Theater Collection documents the multi-talented author's extensive work in the performing arts. The collection contains materials relating to Angelou's work as a playwright, actor, director, screenwriter, interviewer, and documentary filmmaker. Formats include manuscript, print, audio, and video.
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Old Gold and Black
Digital copies of Old Gold and Black publications from 1916 through 2000
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Ronald Watkins Collection
Selected digitized materials from the Ronald Watkins Collection
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Samuel and Sarah Wait Collection
Scanned images and transcripts of selected material from the Wait collection; digital finding aid for the entire collection.
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Special Collections Finding Aids
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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University Lectures and Addresses
Digitized sound recordings of lectures, sermons, addresses, and oral histories relating to the University and its sponsored programs
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Wilbur J. Cash Collection
The Wilbur J. Cash Collection at Wake Forest University 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. Some of the items are here reproduced in digital format.
Other WFU Collections
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Museum of Anthropology Online Artifact Database
The Museum of Anthropology at Wake Forest University creates awareness of global cultures by collecting, protecting, managing, and exhibiting archaeological artifacts, ethnographic objects, and visual arts of past and present peoples, and providing opportunities for intercultural learning. Their online database contains selected images for the contents of their collection.

