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Total number of records: 177

Count of Record type

Record typeCount
Archives122
Books and printed items43
Indexes9
Textiles2
Objects1

Top 10: Collection group

Collection groupCount
Yorkshire Archaeological and Historical Society50
Brotherton Collection22
Janina and Zygmunt Bauman12
Leeds Russian Archive8
Liddle Collection8
University Archive8
Quaker Collection7
Letters Database6
Herbert Read Collection5
Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture5

Top 10: Subject

SubjectCount
business ethics6
culture5
english language - dialects4
folk music4
society of friends4
art3
british3
photographs3
christian ethics2
christian life2

Top 10: Place

PlaceCount
London2
Woodsome; Farnley Tyas; Almondbury; Yorkshire West Riding2
Bath; Somerset1
Buckinghamshire1
Essex1
Florence (Italy)1
Genoa, Italy1
Greetland; Elland; Halifax; Yorkshire West Riding1
Hartburn; Barmston; Yorkshire East Riding1
Japan1

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Rigge, Ambrose (1635?-1705)9
Society of Friends. London Yearly Meeting6
Baldwin, John R4
Society of Friends4
Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019)3
Cross, Paul3
Bingley, Godfrey (1842-1927)2
Davidson, Alan (1924-2003)2
Forster, Ernst2
Hill, Geoffrey (1932-2016)2

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From 170025
From 180060
From 190085
From 20007

Count of Latest date

Latest dateCount
Up to 179921
Up to 189959
Up to 199973
Up to latest24
stencil
Textile

stencil

early 19th-mid 20th Century

This katagami stencil, used in resist dyeing of fabric, has a pattern of dense stripes composed of short lines and paired dots possibly representing a stylisation of horsetail sedge (Equisetum sp.). ...

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Design
Textile

Design

Marchini, Guido (1929-2008)

1950-2008

Painted stylised floral design with a pattern of orange, greem and blue flowers on a red background

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Archive Print Item

Piety promoted : ou la pieté promuë, ou avancée: contenant un recueil des derniéres heures de plusieurs de ceux qu'on apelle les Quakers, qui veut dire les Trembleurs. Avec une exhortation préfixe, tirée des ecrits de Guillaume Penn. Et un extrait sommaire de la preface inferée au premier livre

Tomkins, John (1663-1706); Field, John (1652-1723); Bell, John (1681-1761); Gay, Claude (1707?-1786)

1770

Originally compiled by John Tomkins, John Field, and John Bell. Some sections have English and French in parallel columns. P. xx, 1st count, misnumbered 24. Errata, p. xix-[xx]. Index of names...

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Archive Print Item

Archive Print Item

Archive Collection

JOSEPH HUNTER'S LETTERS REGARDING COLLECTION OF MATERIAL FOR "SOUTH YORKSHIRE"

1826-1927

24 Letters from Joseph Hunter, Bath, to J G Nichols, Parliament Street, London, regarding printing of "South Yorkshire", with covering letter, 14 March 1927, to E W Crossley from G Clay

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Sender: Lee, John Edward

Recipient: Clodd, Edward

Letters: 1

Date(s): 12 Sep 1878

Location: BC Clodd. In Clodd, "Childhood of the World" [no.11]


Archive Collection

Rental of the estates of Miss Frances Mary Richardson Currer

Richardson Currer, Frances Mary (1785-1861)

1786-1799

Rent book containing lists of Frances Mary Richardson Currer's tenants and the rents due on their properties. There are two loose sheets in the front of the volume. One is a list of the land tax pay...

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