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Total number of records: 12

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Leeds Russian Archive4
Business Archives2
Art and Antique Market1
Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture1
Leeds General Cemetery1
Yorkshire Archaeological and Historical Society1

Top 10: Subject

SubjectCount
business records1
cemeteries1
commercial correspondence1
cremation1
education1
historical research1
literature1
manuscripts1
music1
nobel prizes1

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Baines, Edward (1774-1848)1
Baines, Sir Edward (1800-1890)1
Brown, James Clifford (1923-2004)1
Cornelius Medvei1
Dick1
Eddison, Edwin (1805-1867)1
Leeds General Cemetery Co. Ltd. (1833-1967)1
Leeds General Cemetery Company1
Medvei, Dr Victor Cornelius (1905-2000)1
Needham, Mrs. Jinnie (1877-1877)1

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Archive Item

Survey of English Dialects recording in Lutton, Lincolnshire

08 Jan 1952

[Side 1] Dick and Jinnie recall early married life and houses in village they have lived in, Jinnie comments got married with only shilling to their name and still has receipt for first furniture. [S...

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James Brown manuscripts and papers

Brown, James Clifford (1923-2004)

c.1933-2000

Comprises the manuscript notebooks, musical compositions, and associated printed works written and compiled by James Brown between the years 1933 and 2000, along with miscellaneous personalia and an a...

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Wormalds and Walker Limited, Business Archive

Wormalds and Walker Limited

1810-1913

----------- Please see the attached Concordance.pdf to ascertain the relationship between the numeration of the records and the shelf numbers used by Special Collections. ----------- Some of the...

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Great Cattal and Tockwith deeds

1435-1621

DD59/R/2/1 EXEMPLIFICATION OF ASSISE OF NOVEL DISSEISIN 8 Feb. 1435 Recites a writ of 3 Feb. 1435 from the King to the Treasurer ordering him to report on an assise of novel disseisin held at York on...

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Textile Business Records

1804-1942

----------- Please see the attached Concordance.pdf to ascertain the relationship between the numeration of the records and the shelf numbers used by Special Collections. ----------- 1. Weavers...

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Cornelius Medvei Collection of antique dealers' invoices and letters

Medvei, Dr Victor Cornelius (1905-2000)

1952-1985

The collection includes invoices for antiques bought by Cornelius Medvei a collector of antique silver. It also contains correspondence with F. A. Mitchell-Hedges.

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Archive Judaica Collection

Cecil Roth Collection

1200-1999

Throughout his life Cecil Roth (1899-1970) collected books, manuscripts, and art objects. The books and manuscripts of scholarly interest, and modern books, were acquired by Leeds University Library t...

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BUNIN, Ivan Alekseevich (1870-1953) (2)

1916, 1922-2016

I A Bunin letters, postcards, telegrams, etc to V N Bunina (294, 1922-1947) (also diary note on Riga hotel headed paper, [2 May 1938] /154/; unfinished letter to G N Kuznetsova (21 August 1928) /170/)...

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BUNINA, Vera Nikolaevna (1881-1961) (1)

1920-1961

V N Bunina's archive dates almost entirely from the period between her emigration from Russia in 1920 and her death in 1961. It comprises her literary works, notes, diaries, personal documents, corres...

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BUNIN, Ivan Alekseevich (1870-1953) (1)

1920-1953

I A Bunin's so-called 'Paris Archive' was mostly created between the writer's emigration from Russia in 1920 and his death in Paris in 1953. Its main features are literary manuscripts, typescripts and...

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ZUROV, Leonid Fedorovich (1902-1971)

1905-2013

A photograph of L F Zurov taken in about 1905 is the oldest item in this collection, while the most recent items include papers and other personal effects found in his wallet after his death. The majo...

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Leeds General Cemetery Company Ltd Archive

Leeds General Cemetery Co. Ltd. (1833-1967)

1733-1992

Includes: corporate correspondence and records; committee minutes; shareholding records; financial records; records relating to property ownership and other legal matters; papers relating to the opera...

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