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Total number of records: 433

Count of Record type

Record typeCount
Books and printed items285
Archives67
Art items45
Textiles29
Indexes4
Coins2
People and organisations1

Top 10: Collection group

Collection groupCount
Brotherton Collection93
John Evan Bedford Library of Furniture History62
Leeds Russian Archive51
Herbert Read Collection49
University Art Collection45
English Literature36
International Textile Collection29
Liddle Collection26
Leeds Poetry9
Medical Collections4

Top 10: Subject

SubjectCount
furniture60
meubles60
vases, greek11
english literature9
poetry, modern8
design, industrial7
english poetry4
buildings3
fiction in english3
letters3

Top 10: Place

PlaceCount
England66
Asia14
Kashmir14
Great Britain9
United Kingdom7
Soviet Union6
London (England)3
Bradford2
Calcutta2
Colchester2

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019)81
Furniture History Society (London, England)60
Solzheni︠T︡Syn, Aleksandr Isaevich (1918-2008)39
Clarke, Arthur C (1917-2008)20
Mitchell, Adrian (1932-2008)13
Williams, Jonathan (1929-2008)13
Russell, John (1919-2008)12
British Museum11
British Museum. Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities11
Coldstream, J N (1927-2008)11

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From 180023
From 1900391

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Up to 189923
Up to 1999396

Archive Sub-collection

PEARCE, Brian (-2008)

1984

Brian Pearce "1941 and All that" /1/. Letter from Brian Pearce to Richard Davies /2/.

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Archive Series

Additional papers (donated 2007 and 2008)

1918-1997

These additional papers were donated by the Council for Assisting Academic Refugees. 1483-1502 1. Life size Jewish good luck charm 'hand'. 2. Ceramic of a lady playing violin/viola. Symbolic du...

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Coin

Denomination: follis

Date(s): 337-09-09-340-05

Issuer/creator: Constans I (333-50)

Place: Sisak

Material: copper alloy


Sculpture

Tiger King ("Man of Aran")

Epstein, Jacob (1880-1959)

1933-34

Bronze bust of a male head. Tiger King was the hero of Robert Flaherty's documentary film 'Man of Aran'.

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Kitchen
Painting

Painting

A Yorkshire Farm

Jowett, Percy Hague (1882-1955)

c.1925

Frame Type - original frame

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Photograph

Grass Stalks (set of 2, framed together)

Goldsworthy, Andy (1956-)

1984

Frame Type - original

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shawl fragment
Textile

shawl fragment

mid - late 18th Century

A fragment consisting of part of the border of a red shawl. The fabric is twill woven. The design consists of a repeating series of large buta motifs. The predominant colours are reds but there are...

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shawl fragment
Textile

shawl fragment

early 19th Century

Fragment of the border of a shawl. Patterning depicts left facing butehs on a red ground with floral patterning within and around them. Along the outside edge is a narrow border with floral patterni...

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shawl fragment
Textile

shawl fragment

early 19th Century

Fragment of the border of a shawl. Patterning depicts left facing butehs on a red ground with floral patterning within and around them. Along the outside edge is a narrow border with floral patterni...

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shawl fragment
Textile

shawl fragment

early 19th Century

Fragment of the border of a shawl. Twill tapestry woven with a cream ground and woven patterning in red and blue. Widest border has left facing butehs with large flowers inside and smaller floral mot...

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