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Brotherton Collection72
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Penn, William (1644-1718)9
British Museum. Department of Coins and Medals8
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Union News, issue 358
Archive Item
Nebuchadnezzar besieges Jerusalem (fol. 358r)
Archive Piece

Nebuchadnezzar besieges Jerusalem (fol. 358r)

[ca. 1260]

Initial 'A' encloses the scene of Nebuchadnezzar approaching the gate of Jerusalem on horseback, while two soldiers watch from a tower.

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Archive File

(Arr.) Bizet: Scherzo from the symphony Roma

1964

1964 2pf rev. 1992 Ink. With a second copy in pencil..

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Archive File

Memoir by Sir Graham Vincent on British political affairs, 1932-1938, with associated letters and documents

Vincent, Sir Harold Graham (1891-1981)

c.1925-1975

Contents include a typescript transcript of the memoir made in 1975 (top copy and carbon); a typescript of 'Stanley Baldwin and rearmament, 1932-1938', by Sir Graham Vincent; and a photocopy of 'Telli...

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Textile

Class H Woollen and Worsted Fabrics, Autumn 1903

Yorkshire College

1903

A hardback with black covers, red labels and gold text on spine. Book no.1. Contains woven fabric samples most of which have coloured striped or speckled woven patterning on a black or dark blue gro...

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Textile

Soieries Été 1955 pour échantillonnage Été 1956 Envoi D

Courtaulds Ltd.; Société des Nouveautés Textiles

1955-1956

Softback with buff coloured covers. Black text on cover. Contains garment fabric samples including ottoman, jacquard weave, toile, epingle, satin, surah and taffeta. Woven patterning in 1-5 colours...

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Textile

sampler

Pesel, Louisa F (1947)

late 19th-mid 20th Century

Fragment of natural coloured linen Aida fabric with an all over ‘square’ geometric design worked in cross stitches. The edges of the canvas are coarsly overcast. A paper label was pinned to the ca...

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Archive Item

The Dark age of the theatre.

24-Jan-1931

Nation & Athenaeum, 24th January 1931, pp 548 and 550, Reviews A Nicoll, A History of early nineteenth century drama;

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A new and correct mapp of Middlesex, Essex and Hertfordshire : with the roads, rivers, sea-coasts &c. actually surveyed by John Warburton, Joseph Bland and Payler Smyth

Warburton, John (1682-1759); Bland, Joseph; Smyth, Payler

[ca. 1725]

Date from: Whitaker: The Harold Whitaker Collection... Univ. of Leeds, 1947, p. 123.

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