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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 French Playbills, 1920-1967 (#70028), Rare Book Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

[Note: Collection number changed from #PN2635.W56 to #70028 in April 2020.]

Acquisitions Information

Acquired as a gift from William Leon Wiley, date unknown

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.

Processed by: Nancy Frazier

Encoded by: Nancy Frazier

Finding aid updated by Dawne Howard Lucas in April 2020 to change the collection number from PN2635.W56 to 70028

The following terms from Library of Congress Subject Headings suggest topics, persons, geography, etc. interspersed through the entire collection; the terms do not usually represent discrete and easily identifiable portions of the collection--such as folders or items.

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• Playbills--Collections.
• Theater programs.
• Theater--France--History--20th century.
• Wiley, William Leon.

William Leon Wiley (1903-1993), author of books on theater in France, was professor of romance languages at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, with breaks for a doctorate and World War II, from 1925 to the end of his career in 1969.

The collection comprises playbills for plays presented in France between 1920 and 1967, that were collected by William Leon Wiley, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill professor of Romance Languages professor, 1925-1969.