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Archive File

1930

Brown, Wayne

c.1971-1973

This file contains: - 18 transcripts of notices from the Jamaica Gleaner. - 6 transcripts of reviews of Edna Manley's sculpture, including Eve from exhibitions in 1930. - 1 transcript of a letter ...

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1930

1930

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Scrapbook containing letters relating to Beverley, East Yorkshire

1775-1865

Comprises a scrapbook with letters written by residents of Beverley pasted in. Many of the letters refer to legal or financial matters. Two are written on the back of bastardy bonds.

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Archive Print Item

An history of Richmondshire, in the North Riding of the country of York : together with those parts of the Everwicschire of Domesday which form the wapentakes of Lonsdale, Ewecross, and Amunderness, in the counties of York, Lancaster, and Westmoreland (v.2)

Whitaker, Thomas Dunham (1759-1821); Turner, J M W (1775-1851)

1823

"A series of thirty-two beautiful plates, after J. M. W. Turner, add to the value... of the work"--Dict. nat. biog.

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Diary, 1930
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Diary, 1930

1930

Small pocket diary, red, 'Collins Emerald Diary' on front

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1929-1930

1929-1930

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Correspondence : 1930

Brotherton, Edward Allen Brotherton 1st baron (1856-1930)

c.1930

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[Diary, 1930]

1930

(1930) (notebook, with 4 loose folios) 208ff; MS, printed; English, Russian

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Alþingishátíðin 1930

Magnús Jónsson (1887-1958)

1943

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