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Digital Greensboro Digital Greensboro is a collaborative history and digital scholarship platform.

Digital Greensboro is a collaborative local history and digital collections platform hosted by the UNC Greensboro University Libraries. The Digitization Unit, a part of the Electronic Resources and Information Technologies (ERIT) Department, is responsible for Digital Greensboro and for the digitization of primary source materials and other historical and archival resources both within the University Libraries and for external keepers of unique historical material, including UNCG faculty and local cultural heritage organizations. Currently staffed by one full-time employees, three employees shared with other areas, and several student assistants, the Digitization Unit handles a variety of projects within Digital Greensboro. For a consultation, please email David Gwynn, Digitization Coordinator ([email protected])

Who we are:

- David Gwynn, Digitization Coordinator
- Callie Coward, Cataloging and Digital Projects Technician
- Darinlee Needham, Serials Technician
- Donnie Hardin, IT Professional

Fort Bragg Field Exercise, October 1980.Photograph part of the Sandra Van Neel Ross Collection. Sandra Van Neel Ross (b....
10/16/2026

Fort Bragg Field Exercise, October 1980.

Photograph part of the Sandra Van Neel Ross Collection. Sandra Van Neel Ross (b. 1946), of Rochester, New York, served in the Army Nurse Corps from 1965 to 1985. She retired with the rank of Major.

https://www.digitalgreensboro.org/record/82175

October 2, 1959. 11:30 a.m. Employees box cough drops at Vick Chemical Company.IN COPYRIGHT. Copyright Carol W. Martin/G...
10/15/2026

October 2, 1959. 11:30 a.m. Employees box cough drops at Vick Chemical Company.

IN COPYRIGHT. Copyright Carol W. Martin/Greensboro History Museum Collection. Greensboro History Museum has permission to use in exhibits and publications. Commercial use restricted.

Photograph part of the Martin's Studio Collection housed at the Greensboro History Museum. This extensive photographic archive of over 300,000 images consists primarily of 4x5 inch negatives but also includes some prints and business papers. Carol W. Martin (1911-1993) became the first full time paid professional photographer for the Greensboro Daily News in January 1938. When he left to open his own studio in 1947, he took with him a wealth of his work for the newspaper. His World War II images obviously date to his local photojournalism career. Many of the post-1947 images of businesses, on the other hand, were probably taken by his partner, Malcolm A. Miller (1917-2008).

The link to our Digital Collection can be found in the details section.

Photograph of the entrance to the Chinqua Penn Plantation House in October 1965."The Chinqua-Penn Plantation, near Reids...
10/14/2026

Photograph of the entrance to the Chinqua Penn Plantation House in October 1965.

"The Chinqua-Penn Plantation, near Reidsville, North Carolina, was the home of the late Mr. and Mrs. Jefferson Penn. In 1959, Mrs. Penn gave Chinqua-Penn to the Consolidated University of North Carolina. Woman’s College, now The University of North Carolina at Greensboro, operated the house and gardens, and opened the property for tours in 1966. The University of North Carolina at Greensboro Board of Trustees decided on February 12, 1986, not to reopen the home to the public as of March, 1986, due to lack of funds for operation and maintenance. The property was sold in 2006 to Calvin Phelps."

October 3, 1950. 7 p.m. Girls form a human pyramid during gym.(http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/) IN COPYRIGHT....
10/13/2026

October 3, 1950. 7 p.m. Girls form a human pyramid during gym.

(http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/) IN COPYRIGHT. Copyright Carol W. Martin/Greensboro History Museum Collection. Greensboro History Museum has permission to use in exhibits and publications. Commercial use restricted.

Photograph part of the Martin's Studio Collection. This extensive photographic archive of over 300,000 images consists primarily of 4x5 inch negatives but also includes some prints and business papers. Carol W. Martin (1911-1993) became the first full time paid professional photographer for the Greensboro Daily News in January 1938. When he left to open his own studio in 1947, he took with him a wealth of his work for the newspaper. His World War II images obviously date to his local photojournalism career. Many of the post-1947 images of businesses, on the other hand, were probably taken by his partner, Malcolm A. Miller (1917-2008).

https://www.digitalgreensboro.org/record/608778

Happy birthday to us! The new Digital Greensboro launched one year ago today. Thanks for sticking with us over the ups a...
10/07/2026

Happy birthday to us! The new Digital Greensboro launched one year ago today. Thanks for sticking with us over the ups and downs of the past two years!

10/02/2026

📻 To celebrate College Radio Day, tune in to more than a century of college radio history.

In 1906, Harvard students formed what was described as the first college radio club. By the 1920s, students built stations, broadcast campus events, and experimented with new ways to communicate.

Today, the Internet Archive’s Digital Library of Amateur Radio and Communications (DLARC) is preserving that history through station records, posters, program guides, DJ manuals, scrapbooks, and more.

📚 Read the story & explore the collections:
https://blog.archive.org/2026/10/02/100-years-of-student-radio-history-in-the-dlarc-college-radio-collections/

Today is College Radio Day. This would be a good time to explore two collections focused on WUAG, the campus radio stati...
10/02/2026

Today is College Radio Day. This would be a good time to explore two collections focused on WUAG, the campus radio station at UNCG. One was complied by UNCG Special Collections & University Archives and one was donated by former general manager Jack Bonney. https://go.uncg.edu/wuag_history

Good news! Today we changed the copyright status notices on over 450 items published in 1930 or earlier that have entere...
08/28/2026

Good news! Today we changed the copyright status notices on over 450 items published in 1930 or earlier that have entered the public domain since they were added to Digital Greensboro. They can now be freely reused however you like. We hope you will find this almost as enjoyable as a set of Mary Dunbar's Heat Flow Ovenware from 1930!

May 13, 1947. 3 p.m. Photograph of a boy in leg casts seated in a wheelchair at Sternberger Hospital for Women and Child...
08/26/2026

May 13, 1947. 3 p.m. Photograph of a boy in leg casts seated in a wheelchair at Sternberger Hospital for Women and Children at 715 Summit Avenue. A puppy, possibly a cocker spaniel, is sitting in his lap. The order card notes, "Rusty and Kid."

IN COPYRIGHT. Copyright Carol W. Martin/Greensboro History Museum Collection. Greensboro History Museum has permission to use in exhibits and publications. Commercial use restricted.

https://www.digitalgreensboro.org/record/30812?v=uv #?xywh=-357%2C-37%2C2213%2C1256

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