THORNTON Collection
Details
Type of record: Archive
Title: THORNTON Collection
Classmark: LRA/MS 1072
Date(s): 1829-2016
Language: English; Russian
Size and medium: 333 ff, 5 vols, 1 painting; MS; TS; printed; photographs; negatives; slide; painting; 2 boxes
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/20431
Collection group(s): Leeds Russian Archive
Description
[BOX 1] Photocopies of: Thornton family letters (22, 1829, 1867-68, 1892, 1907) /1-22/; English newspaper cuttings about Thornton Mill, 1905-1907 /23/; Nellie Thornton "An English Woman's Experiences during the Russian Revolution, July 3rd, 1917" /24/; Michael Thornton "James Thornton Family History" /25/. Thornton family-history information /26-29/. Lily Tudeer "The Graves of our "Fathers" /30/. Letters from: J T Warren-Potter to Miss Thornton (1, 1943) /31/; Nancy Thornton to Eric Prehn (1, 1952) /32/; Eric Prehn to Harvey Pitcher (1, 1974) /33/. Photocopied transcripts of letters from Edgar and Hatty Shaw to Bates Family (5, 1900, 1905, 1915, nd) /34-38/. "Old West Riding" (Huddersfield), vol 6, no 1 (Summer 1986) (includes publication of 34-38) /39/. Copy prints and negatives of photographs of Brooke, Coates, Shaw, Stott, Thornton family members, Negley Farson, Russian war wounded, Russian vendors, houses and dachas, Thornton Mill, 1910s /40-67/. "Old West Riding" (Huddersfield), vol 2, no 2 (Winter 1982) (includes Jennifer Stead `A Bradford Mill in St Petersburg' and some of 40-67) /68/. Copy prints, contact prints and negatives of photographs from Thornton family album, St Petersburg, 1880s-1890s /69-109/. Copy prints, contact prints and negatives of photographs from Thornton family album, St Petersburg/Petrograd, 1910s /110-154/. Portrait of Captain Thornton (?), [early 19th century?] /155/. Photocopy of newspaper cutting about conversion of English Church, Petrograd, to workers' club, 1925 /156/. Photocopies of: Lucy and Willie Brooke official papers and property inventory, Petrograd, 1917-1918 /157-159/; Eric Varley "1917 and All That!" (1989) /160/. Modern slide of pre-1917 view of Thornton Woolen Mill /161/. Photographs of former Thornton Woolen Mill, 1993 /162-166/. Transcript of letter from Negley Farson to Nellie Varley (née Brooke) (1960) /167/. Letters to Jennifer Stead from: Dorothy Crandall (née Shaw) (1979) /168/; Nellie Varley (1979) /169/. Photocopy of Martin Varley `The Thornton Woolen Mill, St Petersburg', "History Today" (December 1994) /170/. "Old West Riding" (Huddersfield), vol 15 (1995) (includes expanded version of 170) /171/. [BOX 2] S D Laevskii "Poltora veka: Istoriia Ordena Trudovogo Krasnogo znameni kombinata tonkikh i tekhnicheskikh sukon im E Tel'mana" (SPb, 1991) /172/; [BOX 1 contd] photocopies of: Thornton Woolen Mill advertisement, "Niva", 2, 1897; [order form?]) /173-174/. Copy prints & photocopies of Thornton family photographs, [1850s-1880s] /175-180/. Photocopy of John Thornton letter to Mary Thornton, 1871 /181/. Photocopy of "Daily Sketch" article about Thornton family & Metro-Vickers trial, 1933 /182/. Elizabeth Robinson "Thorntons" (family history) & family tree /183-184qq/. [BOX 2 contd] G F Gruzdeva, E G Mironova (eds) "Postavshchiki Imperatorskogo dvora" (SPb, 2013) (includes S I Kuznetsova & A V Ponomareva articles on Thorntons) /185/. [BOX 1 contd] Transcript of manuscripts of Nellie Thornton "[Recollections of Russia]" ([1920s]) /186/. Mounted photograph of unidentified English clergyman(?) (owned by "Miss Thornton") /187q/.
(184qq housed in Stack 1 Map case 1/10. 187q housed in Large box in Stack 1)
Provenance
Varley, David (February 1984); Smith, Josie (April 1984); Prehn, Irina (May 1986, March 1991); Thornton, Michael (April & July 1988, February 1989, February 1992, January 2004); Crook, P Timothy (October 1989); Brand, Elizabeth (August 1990); Varley, Christine & Mark (October & November 1993); Stead, Jennifer (November 1993, February 1996); Richardson, Elizabeth (September 2008, January 2010); Ponomareva, Anna (November 2013); Pelham, Sophie (August 2016)
Access and usage
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