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Total number of records: 96

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Archives83
Books and printed items10
Objects3

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Brotherton Collection96
Novello Cowden Clarke Collection86
Herbert Read Collection5

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photography96
photographs65
portraits47
theatre23
family17
works of art12
childhood11
drawing9
poetry9
painting8

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Genoa, Italy33
London, United Kingdom14
Florence, Italy11
Great Britain3
Milan, Italy3
Dublin (Ireland)2
Turin, Italy2
Berlin (Germany)1
England1
New York, Usa1

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Alexandra Queen, Consort of Edward VII, King of Great Britain (1844-1925)3
Alexandra, Queen, Consort of Edward VII, King of Great Britain, 1844-19253
Edward VII, King of Great Britain, 1841-19103
Amsterdam (Netherlands)1
Amsterdam (Netherlands). Stedelijk Museum1
Arts Council of Great Britain1
Barker, Christopher (1943-)1
Barker, Sebastian1
Barker, Sebastian (1945-)1
Chadburn, Alfred1

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From 180079
From 190012

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Archive Series

GIGLIUCCI, Giovanni Battista

1854-1891

Typescript of the autobiography of Giovanni Battista Gigliucci and a photograph of Giovanni Battista Gigliucci and his wife Clara Anastasia Gigliucci (née Novello).

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NOVELLO, Clara Anastasia

1838-1910

Material related to the soprano singer Clara Anastasia Novello, including a gift presented to her; notes, manuscripts and partial typescripts for 'Clara Novello's Reminiscences' published in 1910; hon...

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NOVELLO, (Mary) Sabilla

1838-1904

Financial, artistic, legal and literary material related to (Mary) Sabilla Novello and her short singing career. Includes portraits of her, albums of greetings cards and her illustrations to her siste...

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GIGLIUCCI, Porzia

1852-1873

A poem transcribed by Porzia Gigliucci and photographic portraits of her as a child and later as an adult, dressed as Thalia from a theatrical production at Villa Novello in Genoa, Italy.

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GIGLIUCCI, Mario

1852

Photographic reproduction of a portrait of Mario Gigliucci as a child.

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GIGLIUCCI, Valeria

1852-1893

Poems transcribed by Valeria Gigliucci for her future sister-in-law Edith Margaret Mozley and her aunt Mary Cowden Clarke. Photographic portraits of Valeria Gigliucci as a child and later as an adult ...

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NOVELLO COWDEN CLARKE, Family

1739-1950

Material relating to the Novello, Cowden Clarke and Gigliucci families which is not attributable to a single member of the family. Includes financial and legal records, creative collaborations between...

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COWDEN CLARKE, Mary Victoria (née NOVELLO)

1825-1898

Two silk carte de visite albums, drawings of plants from Villa Novello in Genoa, gifts of glazed prints and seaweeds, two brooches, Mary Cowden Clarke's Will and Probate details, notes and memoranda, ...

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The family of man : the greatest photographic exhibition of all time--503 pictures from 68 countries--

Steichen, Edward (1879-1973); Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.)

c1955

Prologue by Carl Sandburg.

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Masterpieces of Victorian photography, 1840-1900 : from the Gernsheim collection

Arts Council of Great Britain

1951

"Published by the Arts Council of Great Britain on the occasion of the Festival of Britain".

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COWDEN CLARKE, Charles

1803-1879

Papers and ephemera relating to the writer and lecturer Charles Cowden Clarke (1787-1877), including examples of his jewellery and stationary, the notes he made for public lectures, painted and photog...

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Modfot one

Photo Group 7

[197-?]

"A publication issued by Camera Owner in conjunction with an exhibition of modern British photography by twenty photographers with the students of six colleges of art."

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