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Total number of records: 399

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Indexes4
Art items1
Textiles1

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Janina and Zygmunt Bauman96
University Archive57
Brotherton Collection31
English Literature24
Leeds Russian Archive23
Leeds Poetry9
Yorkshire Archaeological and Historical Society7
Medical Collections6
Quaker Collection6
Business Archives5

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cities and towns110
letters11
russians10
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Germany110
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Japan1
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Andermahr, Heinz110
Ennen, Edith110
Flink, Klaus110
Landschaftsverband Rheinland. Amt Fur Rheinische Landeskunde110
Lvr-Institut Fur Landeskunde Und Regionalgeschichte110
Muller, Martin (Cartographer)110
Universitat Bonn. Institut Fur Geschichtliche Landeskunde Der Rheinlande110
Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019)10
Martineau, Harriet (1802-1876)10
Furstenberg Princely Court Household [Library], Donaueschingen, Germany8

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From 200015

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Up to 189933
Up to 199985
Up to latest258
chirimen
Textile

chirimen

1840-1920

A piece of crepe or chirimen with a grey ground and a multicoloured design depicting water with fish, a kingfisher, branches of cherry blossom and another flower possibly camellia. Chirimen is wove...

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Archive Item

Index Card: Cut glass amber bowl

Apr 1994

Creator of work: William Wilson. Produced by: James Powell & Sons (Whitefriars)

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Archive Item

Saul Moss & Sons Ltd promotional material

c.1900

Advertising various items of furniture.

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Two surrenders by straw of houses and land at Upperthong and Parkhead by Daniel Broadhead

30 April 1726

With subsequent law-suit, Eiliz. Broadhead (his widow) v Thomas, Duke of Leeds, 1739-1743

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Archive Sub-series

Correspondence

1804-1805

Letters concerning estate finances, etc

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Archive Print Item

Spinnen aus Hallingdal im südlichen Norwegen

Strand, Embrik (1876-1947)

1928

"Abdruck aus dem 'Archiv für Naturgeschichte', 92 Jahrgang 1926, Abteilung A, 7. Heft", pp. 86-96.

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Amusements serious and comical, calculated for the meridian of London

Brown, Thomas (1663-1704)

1700

References: Wing B5051.

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Category: Christmas 1915

H.N.Edwards (GS) memoirs p96-7 "a strange and terrible Christmas Day, and I hope I may never spend another like it".

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