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 the William Sumner Jenkins Papers, #4353, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Acquisitions Information

Received as a transfer in April 1983 (Acc. 83062) and from Hank Barnet in May 2017 (Acc. 103066).

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: SHC Staff

Encoded by: Noah Huffman, December 2007

Updated by: Jodi Berkowitz, May 2017

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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• Jenkins, William Sumner, 1902-1978.
• Krock, Arthur, 1886-1974.
• Public records.
• University of North Carolina (1793-1962). Bureau of Public Records Collection and Research.

William Sumner Jenkins (1902-1978) served as director of the Bureau of Public Records Collection and Research at the University of North Carolina.

The collection contains correspondence, notes, printed material, and other material, 1930-1960s, of William Sumner Jenkins. Most of the material relates to Jenkins' work on state records and records held in libraries and archives in other nations. Correspondence includes letters from Arthur Krock (born 1886) of the New York Times.