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Total number of records: 11820

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Archives11812
Art items7
Books and printed items1

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Business Archives5248
Quaker Collection4100
Leeds Philosophical and Literary Society25
University Archive12
Ripon Cathedral2

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business records11
boards of trade8
trade associations7
letters4
lubrication and lubricants industry4
working class4
working-men's clubs4
science2
church records and registers1
churches1

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People and organisationsCount
Le Prince, Louis Aime Augustin (1841-)11
Le Prince, Adolphe (1872-1901)4
Pearson Family4
Yorkshire College Department of Chemistry4
Haworth, Caleb3
Leeds Chamber of Trade3
Ellis, William (1658-1709)2
The Association For Science Education2
Yorkshire Lubricating Oils and Grease Trades' Association2
Association For the Reform of Latin Teaching1

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Archive Collection

Louis Le Prince Collection

Le Prince, Louis Aime Augustin (1841-); Le Prince, Elizabeth (1846-); Le Prince, Adolphe (1872-1901)

26 Oct 1880-1 Apr 1900

The collection comprises papers relating to Louis Le Prince and his invention of a camera which took the first moving pictures on paper film. The papers include technical drawings and notes made by L...

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Ripon Cathedral (Dean and Chapter) Archive

Ripon Cathedral Dean and Chapter

12th century - 21st century

The greater part of their accumulated archives was very generously deposited recently in the Brotherton Library of the University of Leeds by the Dean and Chapter of Ripon. It is hoped that by this ar...

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Carlton Hill Collection

17th-20th century

The Carlton Hill collection of archives contains records of meetings of the Society of Friends for the mid-part of the old West Riding of Yorkshire (now divided between West and North Yorkshire), and ...

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Archive Series

Technical drawings and notes

1880s

Comprises technical drawings and notes made by Le Prince. Some are fragmentary.

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Minute books and letter books of the Leeds Chamber of Commerce

Leeds Chamber of Commerce

1785-1938

The first volume covers the period 1785-93. The second volume begins with the refounding of the Chamber in 1851, after which the records are continuous. Item 1: 1785 - 1793 - Minute Book Item 2: 18...

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Association of Engineers, Leeds, Archive

1865-1999

Comprises: 1) Minutes of the various council, open, special and annual general meetings of the Association, 1865-1997, with printed notices of these forthcoming meetings pasted into the volumes at the...

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Yorkshire Land and Warping Company, Business Archive

1875-1947

Comprises: (1) Many bundles of legal documents drawn up between the Warping Company and various other companies and individuals during the late nineteenth century and the early decades of the twentiet...

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Lancashire Cotton Districts Relief Fund, Leeds, Archive

1862-1866

Papers relating to the fund raised in Leeds for relief of distress in the Lancashire cotton districts caused by the American civil war In the autumn of 1862, the American Civil War began to affect t...

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Minute books and letter books of the Leeds Chamber of Commerce

1917-1964

The letter books contain material dating from 1917-1934. The minute books date from 1938-1964.

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Minute books of the Leeds Chamber of Trade

Leeds Chamber of Trade

1909-1942

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