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Union News, issue 252
Archive Item

Union News, issue 252

14/02/1964

Quiet AGM Brings New V-P System

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Archive File

Enitharmon Archive: Box 252

c.2013-2014

One box containing: Envelopes pertaining to: Ron Mueck, Hughie O'Donoghue, Shinro Ohtake, Paul O'Prey (and Wilfred Owen Association), Peter Dickinson, David Fuller and Corinne Saunders (Pearl), Seba...

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Archive Print piece

Julius Caesar. I. ii. 128 - I. ii. 252

Shakespeare, William (1564-1616)

1623

First Folio page number: (111)

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Archive File

Piano Concerto

1994

1994 2 ww (2 flt doubl. picc), 4 hns, 3 tpts, 2+1 tbns, tba, timps, perc (1 pl: cymb, susp. cymb, SD, tri), strs. Ink full score (photocopy?) in green wrapper of Banks Music Publications.

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Indenture setting out the terms of Joseph Potter's seven-year apprenticeship to Stephen Unwin, Fisher Unwin and Stephen Unwin the younger, woolstaplers, of Great Coggeshall, Essex

Potter, Joseph

1844

Folded and inscribed on verso: Dated 9 April 1844. Joseph Potter to Messrs. Unwin Indenture of apprenticeship. Witnessed by a solicitor, Coggeshall. Signed and sealed by the five parties to the agreem...

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Archive File

Textile

998-1000 [pattern book]

19th-mid 20th Century

Hardback with red and black mottled covers. Contains damask fabric samples with patterning in various colours of metallic thread on black ground. Depicting flowers and people and geometric designs. ...

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Textile

Cotons Riches Été 1956 Envoi 7

Société des Nouveautés Textiles

1956

Softback with buff coloured covers. Black text on cover. Contains garment fabric samples including ottoman. Woven patterning in 1-6 colours includes plaid, stripes, checks, dots, chevrons, geometri...

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Design
Textile

Design

Marchini, Guido (1929-2008)

1950-2008

Painted geometric design with a pattern of red dots and blue stars on a blue checkerboard background

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kneeler sample
Textile

kneeler sample

Pesel, Louisa F (1947)

1931-1938

Counted woolwork sample part-worked as a model for a kneeler or chair seat in Winchester Cathedral. The work is in red, blue, black/brown and green wool on a neutral background, depicting an all over...

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