[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 as the Library of Congress records it · 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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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.
Why this is here: Catalog heading in the UNC record: Leighton, Clare, 1898-1989.
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Other catalogs to search and local organizations that can help.
- Read contemporary evidence: DigitalNC newspapers: 90 Orange County pages naming Clare Leighton DigitalNC Searchable pages from historic Orange County newspapers
- Search beyond the index: NC LIVE: prepared search for Clare Leighton NC LIVE An advanced search of the state’s shared databases already scoped to Orange County’s places and this subject; edit it freely, and sign in through your North Carolina library to read
- Ask locally: Rebecca B. Wall Local History Collection, Orange County Public Library Rebecca B. Wall Local History Collection (OCPL) The county library’s local-history room at the Main Library in Hillsborough: books, journals, maps, and microfilm of county records from 1752
- Ask locally: Local History Help Hours and request form OCPL Local History Liaison The library’s Local History Liaison helps in person most Mondays, 12 to 3, at the Main Library, or by the online request form
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