Quaker Archives

Visitors from off campus are advised to contact archives@guilford.edu or call 336-316-2264 to verify research needs and visit options. The building where we are located in not open for walk in access so an appointment is required. Appointments are available during weekday hours (no evening or weekend options).

• Unique research experiences for both beginning and advanced researchers as well as student internship and employment options.
• Acquires, organizes, preserves and makes available, not only to the College but to the wider community of researchers, materials, both published and unpublished, related to both Guilford College and the history of the Religious Society of Friends.
• Special responsibility for comprehensiveness in documenting and for nurturing research relating to the spiritual, intellectual and cultural heritage of Quakerism in the southeastern United States.
• National recognition as a resource for anti-slavery research.
• As the college’s archives, preserves and provides access to college records of enduring value, including both administrative records and campus scholarship.
• Opportunities for students to curate and reinterpret historical sources connecting Guilford’s historical legacy with larger events and issues remaining relevant in present day.