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Total number of records: 146

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Archives11
Art items1

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Brotherton Collection146
Gypsy, Traveller and Roma Collections146

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Glover, Stephen (1813-1870)48
Nelson, S (1800-1862)45
Jefferys, Charles20
Jefferys, Charles (1807-1865)20
Carpenter, J E (1813-1885)15
Carpenter, J. E15
Gill, Edward J9
Lake, J W6
Lake, J. W6
Bayly, Thomas Haynes5

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Ratcliffe (Dorothy Una) to Gypsy Theatre, Moscow

31/01/1940

1) Typed and signed letter to The Director, The Gypsy Theatre, Moscow asking about buying programme handbills. 2)Envelope, bearing label: “Returned to sender by the censor”,

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Print copy of Edouard Manet: Les petits Gitanos.

c.1950

Mounted Print: titled, "Edouard Manet: Les petits Gitanos. 1862."

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Ratcliffe (Dorothy Una),Letters to various

31/01/1940- 5/Feb/1940

Individually listed.

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Pankok (Otto), Zigeuner: mit einer Einleitung von Rudolf Schroder [Book]

Pankok, Otto (1893-1966)

1947

24, [2]; 67 plates. 30 x 21 cm. [Diisseldorf], Drei Eulen Verlag, 1947. Unnumbered edition. Volume of art reproductions.

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Ratcliffe (Dorothy Una) Letter to the Editor of The Cumberland and Westmorland Herald.

Ratcliffe, Dorothy Una (1887-1967)

05/02/1940

Two typed carbon copies enquiring about the reason for the closure of Brough Hill Fair during wartime.

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Durrant's Press Cuttings (1997)

1997

Cuttings in files as per received (monthly). Each attached to a 'press cutting report,' which includes information about the publication they came from (circulation figures/advertising rates).

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Appleby Hill [2] 1939

Frederick Lawson

14/Jun/1939

Pencil drawing of single Gypsy Traveller wagon and tent/people in the foreground. In pencil, "Appleby Hill. June 14th, 1939."

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Mueller (Otto), Zigeunermappe, [Reproductions of lithographs, with an introduction by Walther Scheidig.]

1958

Zigeunermappe, [Reproductions of lithographs, with an introduction by Walther Scheidig. ]pp. 7, [1]; 8 plates. 40x28 cm. Dresden, Verlag der Kunst, (1958). Plates (each with covering leaf) loose in f...

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Borrow (George Henry), The Bible in Spain, (parts) English-Romany vocabulary and letter.

Borrow, George Henry (1803-1881)

June 1839

Autograph (handwritten) manuscript notebook containing the following: 1) "The Bible in Spain;" Chapter 14 entire, and fragments of Chapters 16, 52 and 53. [ ff. 1-15;] 2) draft of a letter rejecti...

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Letters from Prison Governors and a Gypsy Traveller boy in prison

Feb 1939

Correspondence between Gypsy Williams and the Governors of Brixton and Wormwood Scrubs (boys) prisons, in trying to trace and visit some (named) Gypsy Traveller inmates. Inside envelope that reads, ...

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Borrow (George Henry), Letter to Dawson Turner enclosing letter from Salazar.

Borrow, George Henry (1803-1881); Salazar, António

22/Jan 1837 -15/Feb/1842

1) Letter from George Borrow (15 February 1842), from Oulton, Lowestoft to Dawson Turner concerning the enclosed letter from Salazar ( "the Gypsy of Cordova."). Includes an english transcription. 2)...

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