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Total number of records: 10221

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Record typeCount
Archives10213
Art items7
Books and printed items1

Count of Collection group

Collection groupCount
Business Archives5242
Quaker Collection3129
Leeds Philosophical and Literary Society25
University Archive12

Top 10: Subject

SubjectCount
business records10
boards of trade7
trade associations7
lubrication and lubricants industry4
working class4
working-men's clubs4
letters3
science2
cotton trade1
diaries1

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Le Prince, Louis Aime Augustin (1841-)11
Le Prince, Adolphe (1872-1901)4
Yorkshire College Department of Chemistry4
Leeds Chamber of Trade3
Pearson Family3
The Association For Science Education2
Yorkshire Lubricating Oils and Grease Trades' Association2
Association For the Reform of Latin Teaching1
Association of Yorkshire Chambers of Commerce1
Bathurst, Lilias Margaret Frances1

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From 18003328
From 19006693
From 2000200

Count of Latest date

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Up to 18992553
Up to 19997259
Up to latest409

Archive Collection

Louis Le Prince Collection

Le Prince, Louis Aime Augustin (1841-); Le Prince, Elizabeth (1846-); Le Prince, Adolphe (1872-1901)

26 Oct 1880-1 Apr 1900

The collection comprises papers relating to Louis Le Prince and his invention of a camera which took the first moving pictures on paper film. The papers include technical drawings and notes made by L...

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Technical drawings and notes

1880s

Comprises technical drawings and notes made by Le Prince. Some are fragmentary.

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Archive Collection

Association of Engineers, Leeds, Archive

1865-1999

Comprises: 1) Minutes of the various council, open, special and annual general meetings of the Association, 1865-1997, with printed notices of these forthcoming meetings pasted into the volumes at the...

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Yorkshire Land and Warping Company, Business Archive

1875-1947

Comprises: (1) Many bundles of legal documents drawn up between the Warping Company and various other companies and individuals during the late nineteenth century and the early decades of the twentiet...

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Lancashire Cotton Districts Relief Fund, Leeds, Archive

1862-1866

Papers relating to the fund raised in Leeds for relief of distress in the Lancashire cotton districts caused by the American civil war In the autumn of 1862, the American Civil War began to affect t...

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Archive File

Minute books and letter books of the Leeds Chamber of Commerce

1917-1964

The letter books contain material dating from 1917-1934. The minute books date from 1938-1964.

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Archive File

Minute books of the Leeds Chamber of Trade

Leeds Chamber of Trade

1909-1942

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Archive Sub-collection

Papers of the Association for Science Education and its constituent predecessors

The Association for Science Education

1900-c.1970

Includes minute books, annual reports, membership lists, agenda of annual meetings, miscellaneous papers, and some financial papers.

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Association for the Reform of Latin Teaching Archive

Association for the Reform of Latin Teaching

1912-2001

Comprises the complete text of the earlier manuscript minutes and the more recent typescript minutes of the Association from its inception in 1912 until 2001.

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Glenesk-Bathurst correspondence and papers

Glenesk, Algernon Borthwick (1830-1908)

1801-2000

The Glenesk-Bathurst papers revolve around the Morning Post, an influential Conservative newspaper which eventually merged with the Daily Telegraph, and relate mainly to the Edwardian period though th...

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