Collection Number: 70027

Collection Title: American and English Playbills, 1945-2005

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Size 2.0 feet of linear shelf space (approximately 109 items)
Abstract The collection contains selected American and English playbills representing a larger collection of playbills for plays presented in the United States and England between approximately 1945 and 2005.
Curatorial Unit University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Rare Book Collection.
Language English
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Restrictions to Access
No restrictions. Open for research.
Copyright Notice
Copyright is retained by the authors of items in these papers, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], in American and English Playbills (#70027), Rare Book Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
[Note: Collection number changed from #PN2020.D92 to #70027 in April 2020.]
Acquisitions Information
Acquired as a gift from Jed Dube, September 22, 2006
Additional Descriptive Resources
Lists of additional playbills not represented by this record are filed in the boxes of playbills.
Sensitive Materials Statement
Manuscript collections and archival records may contain materials with sensitive or confidential information that is protected under federal or state right to privacy laws and regulations, the North Carolina Public Records Act (N.C.G.S. § 132 1 et seq.), and Article 7 of the North Carolina State Personnel Act (Privacy of State Employee Personnel Records, N.C.G.S. § 126-22 et seq.). Researchers are advised that the disclosure of certain information pertaining to identifiable living individuals represented in this collection without the consent of those individuals may have legal ramifications (e.g., a cause of action under common law for invasion of privacy may arise if facts concerning an individual's private life are published that would be deemed highly offensive to a reasonable person) for which the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill assumes no responsibility.
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The collection contains selected American and English playbills representing a larger collection of playbills for plays presented in the United States and England between approximately 1945 and 2005.

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Processing Information

Processed by: Nancy Frazier

Encoded by: Nancy Frazier

Finding aid updated by Dawne Howard Lucas in April 2020 to change the collection number from PN2020.D92 to 70027, and in November 2021 by Rebecca Stubbs and Laura Smith.

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