An article in a June 1924 issue of the Winston-Salem Journal touted Winston-Salem as the thirty-sixth greatest industrial city in the United States. The source of this statistic was the 1919 U. S. Industrial...
Did you take a lot of photos over the Christmas holidays? Have you tried to locate the Christmas photos you took last year or the year before? Could you put your hands on a...
Find a copy of the December issue of Forsyth Woman Magazine and read about how Winston-Salem celebrated Christmas in years past. The Winston-Salem Time Traveler feature for December is “Christmas Memories,” and is...
If you like to look at photographs, and yearn to help identify previously unidentified images in the Forsyth County Public Library’s photograph collection, here’s your chance to put names to faces. The images in...
Frank Buxton Jones Jr. was born in Winston-Salem in 1914, to Frank Buxton and Carrie Keith Jones Sr. He was born in his grandfather Keith’s house on Brookstown Avenue. Frank graduated from R. J....
Robert “Bob” Penick Whaling was born in Martinsville, Virginia in 1923. He lived in Winston-Salem for most of his life, graduating from R. J. Reynolds High School in 1940. He attended Davidson College, but...
Photographs showing Sylvester E. Hough are elusive, but as a professional photographer, his name appeared on many cabinet cards (such as the one featured here) of people that he photographed. The photograph shows the...
