Skip to main content

Search Special Collections

Results

1 to 12 of 303 records

Total number of records: 303

Count of Record type

Record typeCount
Archives273
Books and printed items30

Count of Collection group

Collection groupCount
Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture264
Brotherton Collection13
Novello Cowden Clarke Collection9
Leeds Russian Archive3
Gypsy, Traveller and Roma Collections2
Herbert Read Collection2
Cookery Collection1
Quaker Collection1

Top 10: Subject

SubjectCount
clothing and dress297
persons264
occupations186
culture138
textile industry135
manners and customs85
community life83
english language - dialects76
implements, utensils etc69
buildings67

Count of Place

PlaceCount
England5
London (England)5
Great Britain2
Russia2
France1
London1

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Kissling, Werner (1895-1988)40
Walkley, F.40
Outhwaite, T. G.27
Upton, Clive S13
Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019)8
Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)7
Harrop, Peter K6
Bryon, Fiona5
Malcolm, James Peller (1767-1815)5
Shaw, David H5

Count of Earliest date

Earliest dateCount
From 16001
From 17005
From 180020
From 1900274
From 20003

Count of Latest date

Latest dateCount
Up to 16991
Up to 17995
Up to 189920
Up to 1999274
Up to latest3

Archive Print Item

French provincial costumes : paper dolls

Rogers, Dorothy; Laver, James (1899-1975); De Sausmarez, Maurice (1915-1969)

1944

"The illustrations [p.9-32] are from figures which were designed for an exhibition, "The spirit of France," circulated in Great Britain during 1943 and 1944 by the information service of the Fighting ...

More details


Archive Print Item

Archive Print Item

Costumes anciens et modernes = Habiti antichi et moderni di tutto il mundo (v.1)

Vecellio, Cesare (1530-1600); Firmin-Didot, Ambroise (1790-1876)

1860

Title, illustrations, and text within ornamental borders. The work consists of 513 full page woodcut illustrations accompanied by short descriptive text in Italian and French, on opposite versos and...

More details


Archive Print Item

Costumes anciens et modernes = Habiti antichi et moderni di tutto il mundo (v.2)

Vecellio, Cesare (1530-1600); Firmin-Didot, Ambroise (1790-1876)

1860

Title, illustrations, and text within ornamental borders. The work consists of 513 full page woodcut illustrations accompanied by short descriptive text in Italian and French, on opposite versos and...

More details


Archive Print Item

Historic costume : a chronicle of fashion in Western Europe, 1490-1790

Kelly, Francis Michael (1879-1945); Schwabe, Randolph (1885-1948)

1925

Bibliography: pages 279-281.

More details


Archive Print Item

A series of twenty-nine designs of modern costume

Moses, Henry (1782?-1870); Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019); Powell, William Edward (1788-1854); Durie, John Adam (1783-1843)

1823

Illustrated throughout.

More details


Archive Item

Watercolour sketch of historical costume

c. 1860

One watercolour sketch of a person in historical costume, with a red and white dress, gold and blue sash at the waist and green veil.

More details


Archive Item

Sketch and tracing of historical costume

c. 1860

2 drawings, 1 sketch and 1 tracing, of historical costume on a folded sheet of paper. The sketched side depicts a person wearing a crown, necklace and dress with castle motifs, labelled 'Dona Maria de...

More details


Archive Item

Sketch of historical costume

c. 1860

1 pencil drawing on paper of a person in historical costume, including a neacklace, long sleeved dress and item held in the hands, which are crossed over the front of the body. There are notes written...

More details


Archive Item

Sketch of four figures in historical costume

c. 1860

Pencil on paper sketches of four figures in historical costume, with two full figures and two heads and notes on the materials and colours of the clothes.

More details


Archive Item

Ink drawing of a figure in historical costume

c. 1860

Ink drawing of a figure in historical costume with pencil underdrawing. The figure wears a head dress from which two long plaits emerge. Their dress is tied at the waist and their feet are bare. It ap...

More details


Archive Item

Ink sketch of historical costume with notes

c. 1860

Ink sketch of historical costume with notes in Italian that detail the colours of the clothes, which correspond to numbered labels on the figure. The figure wears a crown and long draped dress, indica...

More details