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Total number of records: 215

Count of Record type

Record typeCount
Books and printed items147
Archives60
Coins4
Indexes4

Top 10: Collection group

Collection groupCount
Brotherton Collection42
Business Archives35
English Literature29
Quaker Collection16
Yorkshire Archaeological and Historical Society10
John Evan Bedford Library of Furniture History7
Incunabula5
Coin Collection4
Brotherton Collection Manuscript Verse3
Art and Antique Market2

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SubjectCount
astronomy13
dandara (egypt)13
mysteries, religious13
mythology13
religion, primitive13
zodiac13
gilding6
building5
cabinetwork5
decoration and ornament5

Top 10: Place

PlaceCount
Sun Worship13
England12
Great Britain12
Leeds (England)12
Egypt2
France2
Knaresborough (England)2
London (England)2
Nubia2
Turkey2

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Dupuis (1742-1809)13
Pauquet, Jean Louis Charles13
Pauquet, Jean Louis Charles (1759-1820)13
Triere, Phillipe13
Triere, Phillipe (1756-1815)13
Whitaker, Thomas Dunham (1759-1821)12
Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019)9
Chamberlayne, Edward6
Chamberlayne, Edward (1616-1703)6
Miege, Guy (1644-1718?)6

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Archive Print piece

Henry the Sixth, Part Two. III. i. 327 - III. ii. 61

Shakespeare, William (1564-1616)

1623

First Folio page number: (133)

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Archive Collection

Edward Longbottom and family, Dyers of Batley, Business Archive

Longbottom, Edward

c.1831-1885

The collection has been divided into four groups: pattern books (numbers 1-4); recipe books (numbers 5-19); day books (numbers 20-27); and miscellaneous items (numbers 28-30). The pattern books con...

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Coin

Denomination: quinarius

Date(s): 90 BCE

Issuer/creator: Lucius Calpurnius Piso Frugi Senior

Place: Rome

Material: silver


Archive File

Numbered patterns

No date

Numbered patterns. Some patterns are shown in more than one shade for the same number. Many numbers have no pattern and are listed separately on each page with the name of the shade against the number...

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Numbered patterns with corresponding recipes listed separately

1884

ff 18. ff 12r-18v blank. 7” x 4". Paper covers. Inscribed "Number 2" on first leaf Inserted are (i) A sheet of paper with 10 recipes and patterns (ii) A recipe on part of an old envelope (post...

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Numbered patterns with corresponding recipes (for dyeing cotton) listed separately

No date

ff 8. 7" x 4". Inscribed "Number 3" on first leaf

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Numbered patterns with corresponding recipes listed separately

No date

ff 14. ff 13r-14r blank. 6.1/2"x4". Paper covers. Written on f 14v: "Number 4".

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Folded sheet of paper with numbered recipes and patterns

No date

ff 2. 8" x 6% ”. Inscribed on f 2v, "number 5".

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Patterns without recipes

No date

numbered 1-129, followed by nine unnumbered recipes with patterns ff 18. ff 9r-18v blank. 7" x 4". Marbled paper covers.

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Recipes numbered 61-104, corresponding to those patterns in number 14

No date

ff 8. ff 6r-8v blank. 7" x 4". Paper cover, numbered 7 on front and back. First leaf headed "Mr James Longbottom".

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Recipes under customers' names, with references to "big pattern book" and "brown paper book"

No date

ff 200. ff 139r-200v blank. 8" x 6%". Ruled account book bound in leather with metal clasp missing. Label on front cover reads, "This book is same as number 1 & number 2 books. Dyed at Hunsworth & Bi...

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Recipes with patterns

30 June 1865

Also contains list of stock at June 30th 1865 (f 1r-1v), and a few accounts (ff 2r-3r, 71v-72r). ff 72. 6%” x 4”. Ruled account book in full leather with marbled end-papers.

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