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Total number of records: 654

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Archives251
Indexes200
Books and printed items196
Textiles3
Coins2
Objects2

Top 10: Collection group

Collection groupCount
Quaker Collection223
Brotherton Collection75
English Literature65
Janina and Zygmunt Bauman56
Yorkshire Archaeological and Historical Society28
Leeds Russian Archive27
Letters Database14
Liddle Collection14
Feminist Archive North10
Art and Antique Market8

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SubjectCount
letters14
russians10
classical antiquities7
classical philology7
philosophy, ancient7
political science7
russian literature7
photographs6
world war, 1914-19186
encyclopedias and dictionaries5

Top 10: Place

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Leeds24
Bradford15
Great Britain15
Rawdon14
Leeds (England)9
Gildersome8
Brighouse7
Skipton7
Knaresbro5
Netherdale4

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Johnson, Samuel36
Johnson, Samuel (1709-1784)36
Brothers, Richard, 1757-182410
Thoresby, Ralph (1658-1725)9
Whitaker, Thomas Dunham9
Whitaker, Thomas Dunham (1759-1821)9
Halhed, Nathaniel Brassey (1751-1830)8
Livy8
Church of England7
Gaius Cornelius Tacitus7

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Archive Item

AB - Ang -Izraelsko-Arabski proces s 1-40.rtf

c. 1985 - 2017

Type: File System_File?: No File path: D:\Bauman_extracted_complete\Opticals\D6\Optical_01-50\Optical_40\Okno w internecie\AB - Ang -Izraelsko-Arabski proces s 1-40.rtf Name: AB - Ang -Izraelsk...

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AB - Ang - Izraelsko-Arabski proces s 1-40 .pdf

c. 1985 - 2017

Type: File System_File?: No File path: D:\Bauman_extracted_complete\Opticals\D6\Optical_01-50\Optical_40\Okno w internecie\AB - Ang - Izraelsko-Arabski proces s 1-40 .pdf Name: AB - Ang - Izraelsk...

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Archive Print Item
boxed cuneiform tablet
Archive Object Item

boxed cuneiform tablet

c.2300-2100 BCE

A red wooden box containing a cuneiform tablet with inscription. The typed label reads: "3rd Dynasty of Ur: B.C. 2300-2100 Records and particulars relating to large quantities of fruits for stor...

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Roundhey [Roundhay] Park Lake, East bank
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Roundhey [Roundhay] Park Lake, East bank

Bingley, Godfrey (1842-1927)

16/Aug/1887

Photograph taken near Leeds, Yorkshire

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Letter: 5 April 1868

5 April 1868

5 April 1868. Eliot Vale, Blackheath, London, S E To Edith Thompson On the Fenian troubles, capital punishment, and an anecdote about two Yorkshiremen. 6 Pages.

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Harvesting (fol. 20v)
Archive Piece

Harvesting (fol. 20v)

[ca. 142-?]

The historiated border includes a man carrying a basket and a long tool; and a man carrying a large basket.

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ROTTGER (Hella), Frau Karl Rottger [D]

23/02/1953

Dusseldorf-Gerresheim, Friedingstr. 19a 23 February 1953 Postcard. Partly MS, partly typescript.

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Vegetable Fibres: Flax [exhibit card]
Textile

Vegetable Fibres: Flax [exhibit card]

University of Leeds (1904-); Linen Industry Research Association

1936

Cream museum exhibit card from the Department of Colour Chemistry, displaying 12 annotated photomicrographs of lengths and cross sections of flax as used in textiles. Top row: Six images of lengths s...

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Rajend Mesthrie

20 Mar 1986-1 Aug 2005

Webpage printout of author profile from Peepal Tree website, author questionnaire from Peepal Tree, reviews of A Lexicon of South African English, handwritten and typed letters between Peepal Tree and...

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