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Total number of records: 10208

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Books and printed items8201
Archives1528
Indexes364
Textiles74
People and organisations21
Art items19

Top 10: Collection group

Collection groupCount
Brotherton Collection2717
English Literature813
Letters Database323
Herbert Read Collection290
Liddle Collection277
Yorkshire Archaeological and Historical Society275
Cookery Collection221
Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture200
Novello Cowden Clarke Collection136
Leeds Russian Archive134

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SubjectCount
world war, 1914-1918133
drawing128
culture124
illustration117
english language104
architecture93
natural history90
art89
furniture87
community life77

Top 10: Place

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Great Britain448
England230
France139
Europe81
London (England)58
Wales56
Greece51
Rome51
United Kingdom45
London, United Kingdom42

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019)437
Shakespeare, William (1564-1616)108
Cruikshank, George (1792-1878)83
Johnson, Samuel (1709-1784)78
Cruikshank, George72
Shakespeare, William, 1564-161670
Church of England62
Granger, James (1723-1776)57
Hammerton, Sir John Alexander (1871-1949)56
De Sausmarez, Maurice (1915-1969)51

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Archive File

Illustrations

1914-1918

Illustrations of British Army Commanders and other Boer War scenes from contemporary issues of 'The Graphic', 'With the Flag to Pretoria' and other magazines.

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Illustrations

Orton, Harold (1898-1975)

[1958-1965]

This sub-subseries contains the illustrative items Harold Orton used to accompany his lectures and talks. This includes compilation files of Questionnaire response book pages, locality and word maps, ...

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Illustrations

1949-1971

Envelope containing X-ray prints, medical illustrations, photographic negatives, correspondence, and patient case reports, collected for illustrations for Chapter XI [noted as 'not wanted' for publica...

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Illustrations

1943-c.1972

File containing illustrations for Chapter XIII. Includes diagrams, medical illustrations of surgical operations, X-ray film and negatives, cystoscopy prints, and clinical photographs

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Illustrations

c.1960-c.1970

File containing photographs, diagrams and slides showing calculi, for spare illustrations for Chapter XIV.

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Archive Print Item

Illustrations

National Gallery of Scotland

1930

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The illustrators : the British art of illustration, 1800-1991

Cornelissen, Julia; Wootton, David; Chris Beetles Limited

1991

26th November-20th December 1991. Exhibition catalogue. Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Archive Print Item

Modern illustration

Pennell, Joseph (1857-1926)

1898

[2nd ed]. "Errata slip inserted."

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Archive Print Item

Jersey illustrated

Ouless, P J

[185-]

Accompanying text in French.

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Archive Print Item

Jersey illustrated

Ouless, P J

[185-]

Some plates dated 1855.

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Archive Print Item

Bridlington illustrated

Quine, John; Bridlington (England)

1900

"Published under the auspices of the Bridlington Corporation".

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Gardens Illustrated

Oct 1994

2 x copies of Gardens Illustrated with article by Bateman titled ‘Comfort For All,’ pp.92-9

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