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Total number of records: 100

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Books and printed items75
Archives25

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Herbert Read Collection100
Brotherton Collection97
English Literature7

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art12
art, modern8
anarchism7
arts, american7
english poetry7
modernism (art)7
sculpture, modern7
art, oriental4
civilization, oriental4
art, american3

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United States23
America1
Atlantic States1
Colombia1
Czechoslovakia1
Mexico1

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De Sausmarez, Maurice (1915-1969)8
Read, Sir Herbert Edward (1893-1968)7
Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.)6
Grousset, Rene (1885-1952)4
Phillips, Catherine Alison4
Phillips, Catherine Alison (1884-)4
Read, Herbert4
British Council3
Design Research Unit Limited (London)3
Museu De Arte Moderna De Sao Paulo3

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Up to latest1

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United States

Cairns, Huntington (1904-1985); Wight, Frederick Stallknecht (1902-1986); Naumburg, Margaret (1890-); Albers, Josef (1888-1976); Rockefeller, Blanchette Hooker (1902-1992); D'Harnoncourt, Rene (1901-1968); Francis, Sam (1923-1994); Kellogg, Rhoda

c.1948 - 1968

Substantial series of correspondence concerning Read's various visits to the United States, beginning with a lecture tour in 1948, followed by a fellowship at Harvard as Charles Eliot Norton Professor...

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Design research unit

Design Research Unit Limited (London); Design Research Unit Limited (London)

[194-?]

Cover title.

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The literature of the United States

Cunliffe, Marcus

1954

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Design Research Unit (DRU)

Brumwell, J R M; Gray, Milner

23 Dec 1943 - 1968

This file contains correspondence, meeting minutes and associated material relating to the Design Research Unit (DRU). Herbert Read was the first Director of the DRU upon its foundation in 1943, Dir...

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An introduction to the economic nature of the United States

Pound, Ezra (1885-1972); Amore, Carmine

1950

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Andreas : or, The united; being fragments of a novel

Hofmannsthal, Hugo von (1874-1929); Hottinger, Marie Donald Mackie (1893-)

[1936]

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UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization)

Hawkes, Christopher (1905-); Mountford, Charles P (1890-1976)

Jul 1951 - 10 Jun 1968

This file contains correspondence and associated material relating to UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization). Correspondence includes letters to Herbert Read from ...

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Little golden America : two famous Soviet humourists survey the United States

Ilʹf, Ilʹ︠i︡a (1897-1937); Petrov, Evgeniĭ (1903-1942); Malamuth, Charles

[1944]

"Odnoetazhnya Amerika (One-storied America) First published in the U.S.S.R. 1936. Little golden America. First published in England 1944."

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Art in Britain, 1930-40, centred around Axis, Circle, Unit One

De Sausmarez, Maurice (1915-1969); Marlborough Fine Art Ltd.; Marlborough New London Gallery

1965

Catalogue of an exhibition held by Marlborough Fine Art Ltd. and Marlborough New London Gallery, March-April 1965.

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The British Council exhibition of British children's drawings : the United States of America, 1941-1942

Read, Sir Herbert Edward (1893-1968); British Council

[1941]

Exhibition catalogue.

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