Greensboro and Triad History

: Lillian M. "Jerry" Evans Adams Collection; Lillian M. "Jerry" Evans Adams (1907-2000) was a trumpeter for several all-girl jazz bands during the mid-1920s through the mid-1930s. The collection contains photographs, a VHS videotape, and a trumpet.

: Advertisements in North Carolina LGBTQ+ Publications; This LGBTQ+ Publications collections contains issues of newspapers and magazines including The Front Page, Community Connections, Etc,, Cruise, and others, primarily from the 1980s and 1990s. The digital advertisements project presents advertisements for local LGBTQ+ businesses pulled from these publications Businesses featured include bars, bookstores, restaurants, community groups, and other accommodations and services.

: Catherine Harris Eller Ainsworth scrapbook; Memory/Scrapbook dated beginning 1926 created by Catherine Harris [Eller Ainsworth] of Elkin, North Carolina. Includes pictures/memorabilia from late High School days in Elkin, NC and beyond including time at the NC College for Women (UNCG). Content is related to school, family, and social life ranging from 1926 - 1944.

: Alamance-Caswell Medical Society Auxiliary Collection; Records documenting the Alamance-Caswell Medical Society Auxiliary. Contents and subject include include scrapbooks, meeting minutes, name change of group, correspondence, working with minority physicians and dentists, constitutions and by-laws of the society and the State of North Carolina, meeting minutes, Project Access, Piedmont Health Coalition, Piedmont Health Alliance, Drew Clinic, Alamance Physicians Association, and Kernodle Clinic

: Alamance County Hospital Collection; Material documenting the history and operations of Alamance County Hospital. Several items are not digitized due to privacy or copyright issues.

: Alamance County Medical Society Collection; Material documenting the history and operations of the Alamance County Medical Society.

: Alamance General Hospital Collection; Material documenting the history of Alamance General Hospital, including by-laws and meeting minutes, Volunteer Nurse’s Aide graduation ceremony, a nurse’s pay data book, a certificate of incorporation of Alamance General Hospital, the name change to Memorial Hospital of Alamance County, emergency room documents, membership applications, and patient information pamphlets.

: Alamance Health Services Collection; Reports, newsletters, a scrapbook, and ephemera documenting the history of Alamance Health Services.

: Alamance Regional Medical Center Collection; Material documenting the history and operations of Alamance Regional Medical Center.

: Elreta Alexander Papers; Elreta Alexander (1919-1998) worked in the field of law primarily in Greensboro, North Carolina from 1947-1995. She was the first African-American woman to: 1) graduate from Columbia University Law School when she received her degree in 1945, 2) practice law in North Carolina (in Greensboro from 1947-1968), and 3) be elected to the bench when she was elected District Court judge for Guilford County in 1968. When her term as District Court judge for Guilford County ended in 1981, she continued to practice law privately until her retirement in 1995. The collection contains correspondence, news clippings, photographs, personal and work-related legal papers, interview transcripts, election campaign material, resumes, biographical/ genealogical material, writings of and concerning Elreta Alexander, and one Travan-1 backup cartridge dating from 1919-1999.

: Allen-McFarland Family Papers; The Allen-McFarland Family Papers chiefly document an African American family in the South in the mid-twentieth century, providing considerable insight into the values and norms of African Americans during this period, as well as the opportunities and frustrations of a struggling minority. The digitized items relate primarily to Dudley High School and Bennett College.

: Nettie Marvin Allen Collection; This scrapbook, created by Nettie Marvin Allen between [DATES?], documents Allen's experience at the State Normal and Industrial School (now The University of North Carolina at Greensboro). Scrapbook materials document Allen's work as a teacher at the State Normal and Industrial School and as a nurse at Westbook Sanatorium Training School in Richmond, Virginia and the State Hospital in Raleigh, North Carolina. Also included are names and signatures of people Allen met, along with descriptions of where and when she met them. There are photographs of college friends, including Mary Webb Nicholson and Anna Gove, who was photographed in France during World War I. Other contents include a receipt for a donation to the Students' Building Fund, a May Day invitation postcard from 1916, invitations to class reunions and the Cornelian Literary Society reunion, and programs for the Class Song of 1895, the Cornelian Reunion of 1909, Commencement Exercises of 1938, Henderson High School Commencement of 1938 and Commencement Program of 1935; and photographs, postcards and newspaper clippings related to the State Normal and Industrial College.

: American Red Cross (Greensboro, N.C.) Collection; This collection consists primarily of materials produced by the national headquarters of the American Red Cross and apparently sent to the Greensboro chapter to assist in promoting its 1946-1947 fundraising campaign. The local chapter was established shortly after the United States entered World War I in April 1917. The digitized items all relate to this chapter, with the highlight being a chronology of its activities during its first 50 years.

: Amos Family Papers; A collection of records (bills of sale, etc.) relating to enslavement in North Carolina.

: Angry Troll Brewing Collection; Photographs and other documents relating to the establishment of Angry Troll Brewing, donated by the company as part of the Well Crafted NC project. Most are born-digital items.

: Annie Penn Memorial Hospital Collection; Materials documenting the history of Annie Penn Hospital in Reidsville, N.C.

: Photograph Collection (Alamance Regional Medical Center); Photographs documenting the history and operations of Alamance Regional Medical Center and its predecessor institutions.

: Slide Collection (Alamance Regional Medical Center); Slides documenting the history and operations of Alamance Regional Medical Center and its predecessor institutions.

: G. Will Armfield Family Papers; This collection consists primarily of correspondence, financial and legal documents, photographs, and printed materials relating to G. Will Armfield, his children, and his dry goods business. G. Will Armfield was born near Jamestown in 1848 and spent the majority of his professional life as an architect. However, this collection provides more substantive documentation of his mercantile and other business ventures. Also included are many items created or owned by his seven children, and materials that represent Armfield relatives, acquaintances, prominent Greensboro citizens and local businesses. Researchers interested in Armfield family genealogy, the mercantile business or Greensboro around the turn of the twentieth century will find useful materials.

: James A. Armfield Papers; Includes photographs documenting the Greensboro chapter of the American Red Cross.

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