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Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019)31
Le Nain De Tillemont, Louis Sebastien (1637-1698)16
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Stoner, Edmund Clifton, 1899-196811
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Union News, issue 328
Archive Item

Coin

Denomination: denarius

Date(s): 49 BCE

Issuer/creator: Gnaeus Calpurnius Piso; Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus

Place: Military mint, moving with Pompey

Material: silver

Class C Fancy Woollen and Worsted Dress Fabrics Autumn 1902
Textile

Class C Fancy Woollen and Worsted Dress Fabrics Autumn 1902

Yorkshire College

1902

A hardback with black covers, red label and gold text on spine. Vol. 7A. Contains polychrome fabric samples with woven patterns most of which are variations on tartans. Samples are numbered in penc...

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Textile

Lainages Été 1951 pour Échantillonnage Été 1952 B

Société des Nouveautés Textiles

1951-1952

Softback with buff coloured covers. Black text on cover. Contains garment fabric samples including toile, twill, veloute, voile, crepe and taffeta. Woven patterning in 2-6 colours includes brick ef...

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Design
Textile

Design

Marchini, Guido (1929-2008)

Before 1965

Painted stylised organic design with a pattern of pink, brown and yellow flowers on a red background

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Archive Item

Plays and pictures.

04-Sep-1926

Nation & Athenaeum, 4th September 1926, p 641. Review of Noel Coward, The Queen was in the parlour (St. Martin's T ) and Naomi Royde-Smith, A Balcony (Everyman Theatre).

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Name: Gough, James

Reference: Carlton Hill A1

Meeting: Knaresborough MM 1721-53

Pages: 179-82, 184-5


Archive Print Item

Airey's railway map of the Yorkshire district

Airey, John

1877

Mounted in 32 sections on cloth for folding.

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Archive Print Item

A proposal humbly offered to the Hon. House of Commons

Henriques, Jacob; Roth, Cecil (1899-1970)

[1751?]

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Archive Print Item

Exposed

in Pavillion collection Photography magazine

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