Greensboro History Museum
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Allen-McFarland Family Papers
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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.
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American Red Cross (Greensboro, N.C.) Collection
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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.
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G. Will Armfield Family Papers
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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.
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Ethel Arnett Papers
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This collection consists primarily of photographs acquired by Greensboro historian Ethel Stephens Arnett for her books, particularly Greensboro, North Carolina: The County Seat of Guilford (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1955).
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Art Shop Collection
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The Art Shop was established by Charles Farrell (1893-1977) in Greensboro in 1923, and his wife Anne joined the business in 1935. The couple were both talented photographers, and over the next 25 years they captured many people, places, and events in Greensboro and across North Carolina. Many of the latter images can be found in the Charles A. Farrell Photograph Collection at the North Carolina State Archives. The Art Shop Collection held at the Greensboro History Museum consists of several thousand negatives and over 1500 contact prints. It includes numerous images of local businesses and schools, as well as some copy work and street scenes.
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Benjamin Cone Papers
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The Benjamin Cone Papers are composed of materials from the files of his personal office. As a result, it by no means represents a complete collection of his papers. Although the bulk of the material relates directly to Cone, a substantial amount deals with other members of his family.
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Bernard Cone Photograph Albums
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Bernard Milton Cone (1874-1956) was born in Baltimore as one of the youngest of Herman and Helen Cone's thirteen children. His elder brothers, Moses (1857-1908) and Ceasar (1859-1917), built Proximity Cotton Mills in Greensboro in 1895, and later launched Revolution Mill, White Oak Mill, and Proximity Print Works, creating one of the largest textile mill companies in the South. Educated at Johns Hopkins University and Columbia Law School, Bernard Cone worked as a lawyer in New York for seven years before settling in Greensboro in 1904. Over the next 45 years, he held various positions in the family's textile empire, including that of president of Proximity Manufacturing Company from 1917 to 1938. Cone was a skilled amateur photographer, and his photos provide a rich picture of life in Greensboro in the 1900s and 1910s. Images show: members of the Cone family and their mansions on Summit Avenue, the textile mills and their employees, the mill villages and their residents, and mill-sponsored schools and recreational activities. Cone also captured street scenes in downtown Greensboro and the city's 1908 centennial celebrations. In addition, the albums include several creative self-portraits.
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DAR Scrapbooks
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These four newspaper scrapbooks were compiled by members of the Rachel Caldwell Chapter, NSDAR, which was founded in Greensboro in 1935. During World War II, the chapter undertook the herculean effort of cutting and pasting newspaper clippings about local soldiers, no matter their gender or race. Although almost all the clippings are from the Greensboro Daily News, the articles and photographs document servicemen and women from towns throughout Guilford County, and even from neighboring counties.
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Jerry DeFelice Photographs
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A resident of Rochester, New York, for most of his life, Jerry DeFelice (1920-2005) worked in the Public Relations office at the military base in Greensboro from April 1943 until the base closed in September 1946. He had trained as a military aerial photographer at Lowry Air Force Base in Denver, Colorado, but when he arrived in Greensboro he was put to work taking photographs for the base newspaper. Since the base was still under construction when he arrived, it had no darkroom facilities. DeFelice reached out to the Greensboro Daily News and became friends with its photographer, Carol Martin, who allowed him to use the newspaper darkroom until the camp facility was ready. Martin also taught DeFelice a lot about photojournalism, and they remained lifelong friends. It was through their friendship that in the early 1990s the Greensboro Historical Museum received not only a full run of the base newspaper, but many of DeFelice's original photographs. A short reminiscence by DeFelice has also been digitized (https://gateway.uncg.edu/islandora/object/ghm%3A19643).
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George C. Eichhorn Papers
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George C. Eichhorn (1901-1983) worked for the City of Greensboro as a purchasing agent in the 1920s-1930s and became the city's first director of traffic safety before transferring to Vick Chemical Company. This collection consists primarily of printed materials from his time with the city, including traffic reports and Greensboro's first police handbook, but the only digitized items relate to Vick Chemical Company.
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Dr. George H. Evans Papers
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Dr. George H. Evans (1907-2011) was an African American doctor who worked at the L. Richardson Memorial Hospital in Greensboro for over 45 years. This small collection consists primarily of photographs and printed materials highlighting his contributions to the local community, including during the Civil Rights era.
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Charles A. Farrell Family Papers
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This collection consists of business records, financial and legal documents, printed material, manuscripts, correspondence and photographs relating to the personal lives, ancestry and creative activities of Anne and Charles Farrell, as well as their three sons. The couple were talented photographers who captured many images of people and places in Greensboro and throughout North Carolina from the mid-1920s through the late 1940s. The museum also has an Art Shop Collection (https://gateway.uncg.edu/islandora/object/ghm%3AArtShop) containing several thousand images produced by their business, and additional collections of their work are held by the North Carolina State Archives and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
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Luis Felicia Papers
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A native of Ohio, Private Luis Felicia (1911-2008) was stationed in recreation at the Overseas Replacement Depot (ORD) during World War II. As head of Service Club #1, he performed in shows for the soldiers and provided dance instruction. After the war, he remained in Greensboro as a dance instructor and owner of Felicia Studios of Dance. This collection consists of photographs and printed material relating to his wartime service and post-war career, but only material relating to the ORD has been digitized. The photographs document daily life and recreational activities on the military base, as well as a visit by First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt, while the printed material includes copies of news clippings, ephemera, and an original 1945 base telephone directory.
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C.C. Fordham Family Papers
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This collection consists primarily of correspondence, financial and legal papers, and newspaper clippings rellating to Fordham Drug Store at 514 South Elm Street and the Fordham family.
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Greensboro Board of Education Collection
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This collection consists of two bound books, one being the minutes of the Board of Education from 1906 to 1911, and the other the testimony in the case of the "Mother's Association vs. J. L. Mann, Superintendent City Schools" in 1912.
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Greensboro Fire Department Collection
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Scrapbooks compiled by Edwin Lee of the Greensboro Fire Department between 1947 and 1979 document activities of the department through photographs, newspaper clippings, and other items.
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Greensboro History Museum Digital Highlights
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Digital highlights from the collections f the Greensboro Histpry Museum including Greensboro Disfranchisement Document, Slavery As We've Heard It, Annie E. Kendall Newell Diary, Mary Kelly Watson Smith Diary, O. Henry Speaks, George Preddy, Sr. Talks About His Sons, Greensboro Pictorials, and newspapers.
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Greensboro History Museum Inc. Archives
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As the institutional archives for the Greensboro History Museum, this collection consists of materials relating to the governance of the museum and the functions of its departments. The digitized items include scrapbooks documenting the museum's early history, museum newsletters, and material relating to the "Army Town" exhibit about Greensboro during World War II, which was on display from 1993 to 1995.
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