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Total number of records: 12

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Business Archives2
Quaker Collection2
Leeds Philosophical and Literary Society1

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business records1
church records and registers1
churches1
cotton trade1
engineering1
film making1
inventors1
journalism1
latin language1
letters1

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Association For the Reform of Latin Teaching1
Bathurst, Lilias Margaret Frances1
Borthwick, Oliver (1873-1905)1
Glenesk, Algernon Borthwick (1830-1908)1
Le Prince, Adolphe (1872-1901)1
Le Prince, Elizabeth (1846-)1
Le Prince, Louis Aime Augustin (1841-)1
Lizzie Le Prince1
National Union of Teachers Leeds Association1
Ripon Cathedral Dean and Chapter1

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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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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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Association for the Reform of Latin Teaching Archive

Association for the Reform of Latin Teaching

1912-2001

Comprises the complete text of the earlier manuscript minutes and the more recent typescript minutes of the Association from its inception in 1912 until 2001.

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Glenesk-Bathurst correspondence and papers

Glenesk, Algernon Borthwick (1830-1908)

1801-2000

The Glenesk-Bathurst papers revolve around the Morning Post, an influential Conservative newspaper which eventually merged with the Daily Telegraph, and relate mainly to the Edwardian period though th...

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Clifford Street Collection

17th century-21st century

The Clifford Street, York, collection of archives contains records of the meetings of the Society of Friends in Yorkshire at two levels. First, Records of the county-wide Quarterly Meeting (since 1...

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Yorkshire Naturalists' Union Archive

Yorkshire Naturalists' Union

1876-1904

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National Union of Teachers Leeds Association Archive

National Union of Teachers Leeds Association

1902-1979

These papers were very kindly deposited by the Leeds Association of the National Union of Teachers in November 1983; we are most grateful to the officers and committee for their understanding and coop...

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Wentworth family of Woolley Hall Yorkshire, Archive

Wentworth Family

1301-1900

The Brotherton Library holds a considerable number of documents and maps relating to the Wentworth family of Woolley and its estates. This branch of the Wentworth family had its seat at Woolley Hall, ...

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