[Woodcuts]
Wood engravings by Clare Leighton, dated 1943 and connected with the library of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Among the subjects are portraits of Sir Walter Raleigh and of the writer Robert Ruark.
Person in the county’s record
Clare Leighton
1898–1989 · Dates from the Library of Congress · Library of Congress authority record ↗
The index holds one work for Clare Leighton so far. Search further, by the Library of Congress heading: WorldCat · OCPL. If you know a source, tell us.
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- Person Hall shows Clare Leighton's Southern Harvest engravings, made in Chapel Hill The Person Hall Art Gallery showed wood engravings from Clare Leighton's new book Southern Harvest, with copies of the book on display. The Weekly had reported in December that most of the illustrations were engraved in Chapel Hill and that the book, published by Macmillan with a foreword by Paul Green, was largely of North Carolina interest. People: Paul Green Place: Person Hall Art Gallery, UNC campus, Chapel HillSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, January 22, 1943, p. 2
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- Paul Green 1 entry: Person Hall shows Clare Leighton's Southern Harvest engravings, made in Chapel Hill (January 10-31, 1943)
Indexed works
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By Clare Leighton
About Clare Leighton
Charles Mills papers, 1937-1981.
Correspondence dominates the papers of Charles Mills (1914-1982), approximately 150 items in one linear foot dated 1937 to 1981, part of the Southern Historical Collection at UNC, collection 4270. Subjects include American authors and novelists he wrote to or about, among them Paul Green, Betty Smith, Archibald Henderson, Robert Fitzgerald and Clare Leighton, and note a personal narrative of the Second World War in Burma. Chapel Hill social life anchors the local tie.
Included because: Catalog heading in the UNC record: Leighton, Clare, 1898-1989.
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- Person Hall University buildings and grounds · Chapel Hill · 1 event here
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- DigitalNC newspapers: 90 Orange County pages naming Clare Leighton Searchable pages from historic Orange County newspapers
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- Rebecca B. Wall Local History Collection, Orange County Public Library The county library’s local-history room at the Main Library in Hillsborough: books, journals, maps, and microfilm of county records from 1752
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