Collections – Page 3 – Wake Forest Historical Museum

The Medical Bags of Dr. Matthew Dalton Phillips

September 30, 2015November 11, 2020 wakeforestmuseum No comments

These cases were carried on horseback by a country doctor practicing medicine in rural North Carolina about a hundred years ago. Apart from the passage of time, they […]

Bill Dye, Ed Bradley, Gene Pambianchi, Jim Garry, Tom Palmer

The 1949 Dixie Bowl

September 26, 2014November 12, 2020 wakeforestmuseum 2 comments

Some amazing artifacts that just arrived at the museum seem to have virtually time-traveled straight from a mid-century Dixie Bowl match-up between the Demon Deacons and […]

A Collections Visit from WFU

November 22, 2013November 13, 2020 wakeforestmuseum No comments

Article appearing in the August 8, 2013 edition of The Wake Forest Weekly:

Collections

The Royall Tea Caddy

October 11, 2013November 13, 2020 wakeforestmuseum No comments

This mahogany-veneered tea caddy, with two tin-lined pigeon holes and cut-crystal bowl (added later), comes to us from the family of Wake Forest College Professor William […]

19th Century German Dolls

July 31, 2013November 13, 2020 wakeforestmuseum No comments

It’s always a thrill when someone answers our call for artifacts with a generous donation of any sort, but when Julia Freitag visited the museum to […]

Images

July 25, 2013November 13, 2020 wakeforestmuseum No comments

The thousands of images in our museum archives include every format imaginable– from rare glass negatives to postcards and yearbook pictures, Polaroids to formal studio portraits, […]