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Total number of records: 238

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Archives126
Books and printed items79
Indexes28
Textiles4
Art items1

Top 10: Collection group

Collection groupCount
Brotherton Collection41
Letters Database28
Janina and Zygmunt Bauman22
English Literature16
Leeds Russian Archive16
University Archive12
Liddle Collection11
Herbert Read Collection9
Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture8
Leeds Poetry6

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SubjectCount
furniture9
english fiction6
letters6
married women6
culture5
photographs5
british4
carriages and carts4
decoration and ornament4
russians4

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England8
Europe5
France5
Great Britain4
Rome4
Durham (England : County)2
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United Kingdom2
Yorkshire (England)2
Albania1

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019)17
Stoner, Edmund Clifton, 1899-196815
Acton Bell6
Billing, J6
Blavatnik Honresfield Library6
Bronte, Anne (1820-1849)6
Charles Hunt, London6
Newby, Thomas Cautley6
Binns, Aethelbert5
Brock, G4

Count of Earliest date

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From 180055
From 1900176
From 20007

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Up to 189941
Up to 1999161
Up to latest36

Archive File

Recipes, without patterns, numbered twice, 1-156 and 188-342

No date

Numbers 76 (263) - 156 (342) are also numbered 1-79, and a note to number 76 refers to the commencement of a new pattern book for 1846. Recipes are headed with the customer's name. Many are accompanie...

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(Arr.) Sullivan: Capriccio

1984

1984 pf duet The piece is "transcribed from a vocal duet in 'The Beauty Stone'". Dated at end June-Sept. 1984. Ink, on a single bifolium of 22-stave music MS paper.

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Textile

Class H Woollen and Worsted Fabrics, Autumn 1904

University of Leeds (1904-)

1904

A hardback with black covers and spine. Red label and gold text on spine. Book no.4. Contains woven fabric samples polychrome, mostly black; dark grey and dark blue shades. Non paginated, some sam...

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Textile

Soieries Été 1954 pour échantillonnage Été 1955 Envoi C

Société des Nouveautés Textiles

1954-1955

Softback with buff coloured covers. Black text on cover. Contains garment fabric samples including voile, taffeta, jacquard weave. Woven patterning in 1-4 colours includes stripes, dots, chevrons, ...

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bag sampler
Textile

bag sampler

Pesel, Louisa F (1947)

c. 1944

Cream canvas with part worked geometrical design embroidered in red, blue and grey wool and grey floss silk threads using tent, cross and long armed cross stitches. A plaited wool handle is attached t...

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Archive Item

The Festival theatre [at Cambridge].

01-Jan-1927

Nation & Athenaeum, 1st January 1927, p 480.

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Letter from: Tjebbi Kito, La Capponcina, Cap d'Ail, Alpes Maritimes; 4th March 1963

04/03/1963

Acknowledgement on behalf of Lord Beaverbrook.

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Archive Print Item

Archive Print Item

Elements of the Hebrew language

Hurwitz, Hyman (1770-1844); Roth, Cecil (1899-1970)

1807

In two parts. Part I. Orthography...[etc.].

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