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Total number of records: 789

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Indexes533
Books and printed items153
Archives88
Textiles8
Coins4
Art items3

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Quaker Collection510
Brotherton Collection44
Letters Database33
Janina and Zygmunt Bauman20
English Literature13
Leeds Russian Archive13
University Archive12
International Textile Collection8
Liddle Collection8
Yorkshire Archaeological and Historical Society8

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furniture5
manners and customs4
world war, 1914-19184
agriculture3
american literature3
community life3
culture3
english literature3
folklore3
locomotives3

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Leeds59
Bradford35
Halifax22
Brighouse21
Rawdon17
Skipton16
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Gildersome14
Mankinholes10
Huddersfield8

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People and organisationsCount
Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019)18
Baedeker, Karl (1801-1859)7
Karl Baedeker (Firm)7
Clark, Edwin Kitson6
Leeds Philosophical and Literary Society6
Town Clerk of Leeds5
Bevan, Joseph Gurney (1753-1814)3
Bevan, Joseph Gurney, 1753-18143
Bevan, Rebecca3
Chester, Keith R3

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Archive Item

lucyn262.doc

c. 1985 - 2017

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Union News, issue 262
Archive Item

Union News, issue 262

16/10/1964

Mhlongo Comes to Study in Leeds

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Coin

Denomination: triens

Date(s): 169-58 BCE

Place: Rome

Material: copper alloy

shawl
Textile

shawl

Late 17th century

Very finely twill woven, natural coloured, shawl with a narrow decorative band of a geometric floral patterns edging each long side edge. The same band design is worked width wise to edge the wider fl...

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Textile

914 915 [pattern book]

19th-mid 20th Century

Hardback with black and purple mottled covers. Contains fabric samples, all of which are monochrome black with woven patterning mostly of repeating geometric designs, some with floral patterning. Inc...

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Textile

Été 1954 Envoi 3

Société des Nouveautés Textiles

1954

Softback with buff coloured covers. Black text on cover. Contains garment fabric samples. Patterning is mostly in varied types of plaid but also includes stripes and geometric dobbies. Patterning ...

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Design
Textile

Design

Marchini, Guido (1929-2008)

1950-2008

Painted geometric design with a pattern of green, yellow and red squares with blue flowers on a blue background

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kantha style panel
Textile

kantha style panel

late 20th Century

A hemmed square of kantha style embroidery in neutral with a central image of an elephant and rider within a red striped border. The elephant has a checkerboard design of yellow and blue, and a green...

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poster
Textile

poster of stages of wool production

early 20th Century

A poster with photographs explaining the stages of production of wool, from sheep to cloth. In the centre of the poster is a picture of a merino sheep's head. Photographs show merino sheep on the past...

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uncut warp weave
Textile

uncut warp weave

late 20th Century

A multicoloured cotton check weave, predominantly in brown and blue, with supplementary weft motifs including crosses, hooks, uciks and tumpals. This is an uncut warp weave, possibly a sarong / sarong...

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