Greensboro Public Library

: Directories and Guidebooks (Guilford Vertical Files); Guidebooks and directories created for audiences ranging from visitors to corporations looking to relocate to the Greensboro and Piedmont Triad area.

: Greensboro Chamber of Commerce (Guilford Vertical Files); Annual reports, studies, and promotional material produced by the Greensboro Chamber of Commerce.

: Greensboro Public Library Oral History Program; The Greensboro Public Library Oral History Program consists of oral history interviews conducted by the library prior to 2005 by Eugene Pfaff. The interviews were digitized and placed online in partnership with UNC Greensboro in 2005 as part of the Greensboro VOICES project (funded by a grant from the Community Foundation of Greater Greensboro) and were laterd added to the Civil Rights Greensboro project.

: Greensboro Public Library at Digital NC; Collections hosted by the North Carolina Digital Heritage Center including yearbooks, catalogs, newspapers, and other items.

: Greensboro Redevelopment (Guilford Vertical Files); Annual reports, maps, urban renewal information, and other documents created by the City of Greensboro in the Postwar Era.

: Homespun Magazine; The literary magazine of Greensboro Senior High School, now Grimsley High School, in Greensboro, N.C.

: Hospitals and Medical History (Guilford Vertical Files); Various subject files documenting hospitals and medical history in Greensboro, N.C.

: North Carolina Biography Files (Greensboro Public Library); Biographical subject files documenting important figures in Greensboro history. Digitized files are primarily connected with medical professionals.

: North Carolina Collection (Greensboro Public Library); Materials documenting the regional history of Greensboro and North Carolina. Digitized items from the collection primarily document postwar urban renewal and development.

: Planning Notes (City of Greensboro); Newsletter published by the Greensboro, N.C. Planning Department in the 1950s and 1960s. There is not a full collection of this publication, and digitized issues were pulled from vertical files.

: Schools and Colleges (Guilford Vertical Files); Various subject files documenting educational institutions in the Greensboro area.

: Triad Area City Directories; City directories are an invaluable resource for historians, geneaologists, and building researchers, among others. They provide unique data on urban areas including individual and business addresses and telephone numbers, occupations and employers of individuals, and a classified business directory. Many also include "reverse lookup" address and telephone listings. Some also included sections detailing the history and government of the cities and states included in the directory as well as other information of interest to the businesses that were the primary audience of the books. Some early directories were segregated, presenting white and "colored" listings in separate sections or "departments."

: Wartime (Guilford Vertical Files); Various subject files documenting lif during wartime (primarily World War II) in the Greensboro area.

: World War I Scrapbooks; Scrapbooks pertaining to servicemen and medical personnel of Guilford County who participated in World War I.

: Your Downtown; Newsletter published by the Greensboro Downtown Renewal Information Committee in the late 1960s.

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