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Union News, issue 278
Archive Item

Union News, issue 278

12/03/1965

Sixty to Spend Fifty-Six Thousand

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Archive File
Floral border (fol. 278v)
Archive Piece

Floral border (fol. 278v)

[ca. 1440-1460]

Rinceau border with acanthus leaves, thistles, barbed quatrefoils and trefoils, a rose, and black hairline tendrils with gold balls, ivy leaves and pine cones. Bar-frame border in rose/blue and gold. ...

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Archive Print piece

Love's Labour's Lost. IV. iii. 160 - IV. iii. 278

Shakespeare, William (1564-1616)

1623

First Folio page number: (134)

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Archive Print Item

Kreuzstich-Vorlagen : eine ausgewählte Sammlung von 278 der schönsten alten Volkskunstmuster

Foris, Maria; Foris, Andreas; Kiewe, Heinz Edgar

[1958]

11.- 14 Tausend.

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Archive File

Rondo in B-flat

1944

1944 pf Dated on title-page "Feb. 1944". The book has been folded vertically down the middle. Ink, in music MS book

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Coin

Denomination: denarius

Date(s): 86 BCE

Issuer/creator: Gaius Gargonius; Marcus Vergilius; Ogulnius

Place: Rome

Material: silver


Archive File

Notes made and material collected by L.G. Johnson during his work on Thomas Perronet Thompson

Johnson, Leonard George

c.1950-1960

Contains: (1) Material connected with his biography of Thomas Perronet Thompson, including: (i) His edited version of Edith Thompson's biography, chapters 1 and 2 (52 ff.) and a chapter on 1829 (34 ff...

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batik fabric
Textile

batik fabric

20th Century

This cloth displays one of the most important Javanese batik patterns, the tampal/tambal, tambalan or patchwork design. The block printed design is divided into triangles with each shape filled with a...

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Textile

The Textile Institute, Lieut. Harry Dent Crompton Prize Fund Scheme, Design and Structure of Woven Fabrics, Reference Collection No.5

The Textile Institute

1923

String bound book with green covers with black text on front cover. Containing samples of patterned clothing, furnishing and household fabrics. Non paginated.

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