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Special Collections & Archives
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Wake Forest University
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ZSR Special Collections & Archives
ZSR's Special Collection and Archives may contain useful materials on your topic. There are a variety of ways to search these materials, depending on their format. Contact SCA for more help with searching the collection.
1. Search SCA materials (including books) in Primo. Limit your search to the Library Catalog and use the Location facet on the left side to limit to items in Special Collections (6th Floor).
2. Search SCA Digital Collections to locate items that have already been digitized. These include the Old Gold and Black newspaper, the Howler yearbook, and some rare books and manuscript collections.
3. Search SCA finding aids to locate unpublished materials in manuscript and archival collections that are not digitized. (Contact SCA at archives@wfu.edu for help using finding aids!)
Selected Items from Special Collections
Below is a list of the materials in Special Collections and Archives. It is a representative sample of a much larger collection of materials on the American war of independence that is held by ZSR Special Collections.
- An account of the European settlements in America byCall Number: E143 .B8Publication Date: London : R. and J. Dodsley, 1758.
- An account of the weather and diseases of South Carolina. byCall Number: RA807 .S5 C4Publication Date: London : Printed for E. and C. Dilly, 1776.
- Additions to Common sense : addressed to the inhabitants of America. byCall Number: E211 .P155 1776Publication Date: Philadelphia : Printed ; London : Reprinted for J. Almon, 1776
- The American military pocket atlas: being an approved collection of correct maps, both general and particular, of the British colonies; especially those which now are, or probably may be the theatre of war byCall Number: G1105 .R5 1776Publication Date: London : Printed for R. Sayer and J. Bennet, [1776]
- The Annual Register; or, a view of the history, politics and literature for the year 1774.Call Number: D2 .A7 1774Publication Date: London : Printed for J. Dodsley in Pall-Mall, 1775.
- Common sense; addressed to the inhabitants of America... byCall Number: E211 .P128 1776Publication Date: Philadelphia : Printed, and sold, by R. Bell, 1776.
- Eaton's Baptist Church (Mocksville, N.C.) Records.Call Number: MS746
- Extracts from the votes and proceedings of the American Continental Congress held at Philadelphia, on the fifth of September, 1774. Containing, the Bill of Rights, a list of grievances, occasional resolves, the association, an address to the people byCall Number: J10 .B74 1774Publication Date: Philadelphia printed ; London : Reprinted for J. Almon, 1774.
- The history of the revolution of South-Carolina : from a British province to an independent state byCall Number: E263 .S7 R17 1785Publication Date: Trenton : Printed by Isaac Collins, 1785.
- Letters from an American farmer : describing certain provincial situations, manners, and customs not generally known and conveying some idea of the late and present interior circumstances of the British colonies in North America byCall Number: E163 .C82 1782Publication Date: London : Printed for Thomas Davies, 1782
- The necessity of repealing the American stamp-act demonstrated byCall Number: E215.2 . N36 1766Publication Date: London : Printed for J. Almon, 1766.
- A new essay (by the Pennsylvanian farmer) on the constitutional power of Great-Britain over the colonies in America : with the resolves of the Committee for the province of Pennsylvania, and their instructions to their representatives in Assembly. byCall Number: E211 .D533 1774Publication Date: Philadelphia, printed ; London : Re-printed for J. Almon, 1774.
- Novanglus, and Massachusettensis : or, Political essays, published in the years 1774 and 1775, on the principal points of controversy, between Great Britain and her colonies. byCall Number: E211 .A195 1819Publication Date: Boston : Printed and published by Hews & Goss, 1819.
- The objections to the taxation of our American colonies by the legislature of Great Britain, briefly consider'd. byCall Number: E215.5 .J542 1765Publication Date: London : Printed for J. Wilkie, 1765.
- An Oration; delivered March 5, 1774, at the request of the inhabitants of the town of Boston: to commemorate the bloody tragedy of the fifth of March 1770 byCall Number: E215.4 .H226 1774Publication Date: Boston : Printed by Edes and Gill, 1774.
- Poems on various subjects, religious and moral. byCall Number: PS866 .W5 1773Publication Date: London : |b Printed for A. Bell, bookseller, Aldgate; and sold by Messrs. Cox and Berry, King-stree
- Political debates. byCall Number: E215.2 P675 1766Publication Date: Paris : J. W. Imprimeur, 1766.Actually printed in London. Cf. Sabin.
Published also under title: "The celebrated speech of a celebrated Commoner." London, 1766. - Political, miscellaneous, and philosophical pieces byCall Number: E302 .F82 1779Publication Date: London : Printed for J. Johnson, 1779
- Poor Richard improved; being an almanack and ephemeris of the motions of the sun and moon; the true places and aspects of the planets; the rising and setting of the sun, the rising, setting and southing of the moon, for the year of Our Lord 1758 byCall Number: PS749 .A4 1758Publication Date: Philadelphia : Printed and sold by B. Franklin, and D. Hall, [1757].
- A sermon preached before the honorable council. And the honorable house of representatives, of the colony of the Massachusetts-Bay in New-England, May 29th, 1776. byCall Number: E297 .W54 1776Publication Date: Boston : Printed by John Gill, 1776.
- A summary, historical and political, of the first planting, progressive improvements, and present state of the British settlements in North America byCall Number: E188 .D73 1755Publication Date: Boston, New-England ; London : R. Baldwin, 1755