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Archive Print Item

Avgust chetyrnad︠t︡satogo (10-21 avgusta st. st.)

Solzheni︠t︡syn, Aleksandr Isaevich (1918-2008)

1971

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lace sampler
Textile

lace sampler

19th century

A pink embroidered rectangular sampler of drawn thread work designs in the centre surrounded by repeating floral motifs. All four sides of the ground fabric are neatly hemmed. The open woven cotton gr...

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Archive Sub-collection

FARRELL Collection

[1800s], [after 1909]

Slides of engravings of Moscow and St Petersburg /1-12/. Note on provenance of 1-12 /13/.

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Sender: Bridger, J.A.D.

Recipient: Shorter, Clement King

Letters: 2

Date(s): 13 Jul 1925; 28 Jul 1925

Location: BC. Shorter correspondence

Title: [A distich under the signs of a public-house in Havering (index)]

Author: Anonymous

Attribution: At Havering in Essex a man who kept the sign of the Leather-Bottle went to

Date(s): 177- ?

Manuscript: Lt 12

Contents: Witty pun on the words boar and (it seems) bore, in a drinking context

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