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Union News, issue 381
Archive Item
The prophet Haggai and Zerubbabel (fol. 381r)
Archive Piece

The prophet Haggai and Zerubbabel (fol. 381r)

[ca. 1260]

Initial 'I' encloses the prophet Haggai and Zerubbabel. The ornamental initial 'A' is decorated with foliage with a small animal head.

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Archive Print Item

Archive Print piece

Hamlet. V. ii. 285 - V. ii. 381

Shakespeare, William (1564-1616)

1623

First Folio page number: (281)

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Archive File

"Blows the wind today"

1949

1949 voc, pf Song to words by R.L. Stevenson. Revised in 1966. This copy is undated: but the manuscript book in which it appears bears the date 30/11/45, and the composer signs "James C. Brown", indic...

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Archive Art File

Water-colour sketch of a burial ground, by 'S.E.B.' (probably S.E.Backhouse)

Backhouse, S E

c.1879

Painting of a burial ground, with one gravestone initialled H.R.F. (possibly Hutton Rawlinson Ford)

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Coin

Denomination: denarius

Date(s): 142 BCE

Issuer/creator: Gaius Curiatius Trigeminus

Place: Rome

Material: silver


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Textile

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Blackburn, Tolson and Co.

1949-1954

A set of pages with handwritten inscriptions give details of loom set up and specifications for woven cloth pattern nos 1200-1323 - serge, suiting and trousering. Including: reed width, sett, no. of s...

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Textile

Draperies Deuxième Saison 1959 Envoi E

Société des Nouveautés Textiles

1959

Softback with cream coloured covers. Blue text on cover. Contains fabric samples with woven patterning in 2-8 colours including stripes, dots, plaid, checks, houndstooth, flecked patterning and herr...

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