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These are the newest collections added to Gateway. New items may be added to these collections as well.

  • E. Albertina McGirt's Historical Collection on African American Life in Greensboro, N.C.
    E. Albertina McGirt is a longtime Greensboro resident, a Bennett College alumna, and a retired staff member of N.C. A&T State University. She also serves as church historian for St. Matthews United Methodist Church. Much of this collection consists of historical documents related to the church.
    Gateway Community Collections, UNC Greensboro , Added 2024 April 26
  • Tom Taylor Collection
    The Tom Taylor Collection consists of a 1934 letter to Taylor's mother documenting the history of Greensboro schools.
    Gateway Community Collections, UNC Greensboro , Added 2024 April 23
  • William O. Elkins Collection
    Dr. William O. Elkins was on the staff of L. Richardson Memorial Hospital in Greensboro, N.C.
    Gateway Community Collections, UNC Greensboro , Added 2024 April 23
  • Historical Photographs: Academic Units
    Photographs of academic acticties and departments at UNC Greensboro.
    Martha Blakeney Hodges Special Collections and University Archives, UNCG University Libraries , Added 2024 March 26
  • Lolita C. Watkins Collection
    Lolita Cheryl Watkins, daughter of Clarence C. Watkins, Sr. (1907-1990) and Evelyn J. Watkins of Reidsville, N.C., is an alumna of UNC Greensboro, was a curriculum specialist for the Guilford County Schools. She is an active member of Saint James Presbyterian Church in Greensboro and has been involved with numerous community ministries. Her father was a graduate of Johnson C. Smith University and Columbia University, and was employed as a teacher at Elm Grove Elementary School and later as the first Black supervisor of the Rockingham County School System, as well as a number of civil and educational organizations.
    Gateway Community Collections, UNC Greensboro , Added 2024 March 19
  • Cone Health Oversize and Framed Items
    This collection contains large and framed objects, primarily related to operations and construction at Moses H. Cone Memorial Hospital and Wesley Long Community Hospital. Many items were used in displays in the hospitals. There is also a group of framed portraits of early department heads at Cone. Physical copies of these items are no longer held in the Cone Health Medical Library collection.
    Cone Health Medical Library , Added 2024 March 13
  • Punks on Paper
    Punks on Paper, a comprehensive look back at the history of North Carolina Punk and Hardcore through detailed showlistings, flyers, posters, and ticket stubs, went online in as the personal website of John Rivera 2014. By 2019, the collection had grown to over 5000 show entries and over3000 fliers ranging from the late 70s early waves of punk rock, through the developing 80s hardcore scene, the 1990s indie and grunge days, and on into the current times.The site documented everything from DIY garages and basements to music halls to hole in the wall clubs to pizza parlors. Including the bigger names like The World Famous Milestone Club, Cat's Cradle, The Brewery down to the more "locals only" spots like the Miracle House of Rock, Dick Street and Posidome of the great state of North Carolina. Rivera passed away in 2022, and a permanent archive of the material from the site is being added to Gateway. The collection will be online in March of 2024 and we will begin accepting new submissions. More soon!
    Martha Blakeney Hodges Special Collections and University Archives, UNCG University Libraries , Added 2024 February 29
  • C.C. and Mable Clay Griffin Collection
    Curl Caesar (C.C.) Griffin C.C. Griffin (1910-1986) was a 1935 graduate of N.C. A&T College (now N.C. A&T State University) and received as masters degree from Butler University. He served as principal of Logan School in Concord, N.C. from 1954 to 1969, and then worked as a personnel supervisor for Cannon Mills in Kannapolis. C.C. Griffin STEM Middle School in Concord is named in his honor. CC. Griffin and his wife, Mable Clay Griifin, had three children, a son Leonard Osborne Griffin (1939-2023) and identical twin daughters, Marilyn Yvonne Griffin (b. 1937) and LaRose Elizabeth Griffin (1937-2023).
    Gateway Community Collections, UNC Greensboro , Added 2024 January 29
  • Sylvia Dean Stanback Collection
    Sylvia Dean Stanback is a lifelong resident of Greensboro. She is the great-granddaughter of James Monroe Dean, Sr. (1834-1902) and Lucinda Mitchell Dean (1834-1911). The Mitchell and Dean families played significant roles in the development of Greensboro, and particularly of Providence Baptist Church. James Dean was a Guilford County magistrate, philanthropist, and businessman--the owner of Dean's Brickyard, which supplied bricks for the construction of many early Greensboro landmarks.
    Gateway Community Collections, UNC Greensboro , Added 2024 January 22
  • Sunset Hills Neighborhood Project
    This collection contains material contributed by the Sunset Hills Neighborhood Association and by neighborhood residents as part of an ongoing community documentation project tracing the history and development of this historic Greensboro neighborhood.
    Gateway Community Collections, UNC Greensboro , Added 2024 January 19

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