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Bernard Shaw

1856–1950 · Dates from the Library of Congress · Library of Congress authority record ↗

4 works about Bernard Shaw are indexed here.

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Shaw-Henderson festival : presented by the Carolina Playmakers, honoring Dr. Archibald Henderson, Psi (North Carolina)

1933 · Sigma Nu Fraternity

The Carolina Playmakers presented a Shaw and Henderson festival in Chapel Hill in honor of Archibald Henderson, the university mathematician who became Bernard Shaw's biographer, and this piece reports on it. Detached from the May 1933 issue of Sigma Nu Delta and printed in Indianapolis by the fraternity, it concerns drama festivals in Chapel Hill and names both Henderson and Shaw.

Included because: Catalog heading in the UNC record: Shaw, Bernard, 1856-1950.

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The Archibald Henderson Collection

Wadsworth, Sarah A. · 2000

Sarah A. Wadsworth's 2000 account of the Archibald Henderson Collection in the Rare Book Collection at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. A guide to the Bernard Shaw material Henderson gathered.

Included because: Catalog heading in the UNC record: Shaw, Bernard, 1856-1950.

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An evaluative study of the Shaw Collection at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Callahan, Daren · 1989

Daren Callahan's 1989 evaluation of the Bernard Shaw collection in the Rare Book Collection at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, written under Charles B. McNamara to guide acquisitions for an established collection. Just over a hundred leaves of bibliography and analysis, concerning Shaw, who lived from 1856 to 1950.

Included because: Catalog heading in the UNC record: Shaw, Bernard, 1856-1950.

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The Archibald Henderson Collection of books and other materials relating to George Bernard Shaw

Masterton, Isabel Van Rensselaer · 1964

Isabel Van Rensselaer Masterton's 1964 account of the Archibald Henderson Collection of books and other materials relating to George Bernard Shaw, gathered in the Rare Book Collection of the University of North Carolina library at Chapel Hill. Henderson, 1877 to 1963, is also named beside Shaw, whose works the collection gathers. A bibliography occupies leaves 209 to 211.

Included because: Catalog heading in the UNC record: Shaw, Bernard, 1856-1950.

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