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Archive Collection

MATERIAL COLLECTED FOR A HISTORY OF THE FIELD FAMILY OF SKELMANTHORPE BY T E FIELD

18th century-20th century

Including a few deeds of the Jebson and Blacker families 18th-20th century, valuation of Clayton West township 1807, family photographs 19th-20th century, family tree with notes and correspondence 19...

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Edmund Gosse Archive

Gosse family

c.1823-1954

The Gosse collection includes material from five generations of the Gosse family, but is largely the archive of Sir Edmund William Gosse (1849-1928), the writer and literary critic. The collection hol...

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Archive Item

Archaeological, local and natural history photographs by Sidney Jackson

1950s-1970s

A collection of approximately 520 black and white photographs (some enlargements and duplicates) and approximately 45 other illustrative items (eg photocopies, sketches, greetings card and calendar pi...

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Rabbit skin
Archive Art Piece

"Rabbit skins"

Frederick Lawson

c.1927

Charcoal drawing of a rack built outside a Gypsy Traveller wagon to hang rabbits that had been hunted/killed. Labelled, "Rabbit skins [indecipherable word- possibly location]."

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Archive Collection

COLLECTION OF DEEDS AND PAPERS RELATING CHIEFLY TO MELTHAM AND DEWSBURY AREA

1557-1806

(a) Deeds relating to Meltham 1557-1746 and probates of the wills of Thomas Beamond of Meltham 1669; Abraham Beaumont of Meltham 1673; and William Radcliffe of Brighouse 1768; the original will of Abr...

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Archive File

BARKER, ARTHUR

1917-1929

The collection contains around 125 letters written by Arthur Barker to his wife Alice and a few postcards and telegrams. There are two sets of letters: 1. Those written while Arthur was training i...

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Archive File

The Ernest Bradbury Archive 1965

1965

GUIDE TO THE ERNEST BRADBURY ARCHIVE 1965 Those wishing to discover the most outstanding events of 1965 should refer to the cutting of 31.12.65. Owing to limitations, producers and designers consist...

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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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John Foster and Son, Business Archive

John Foster and Son

c.1820-1950

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

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The Ernest Bradbury Archive 1975

1975

GUIDE TO THE ERNEST BRADBURY ARCHIVE 1975 This is a full and rewarding year, packed with insight and delivered with humour, whether the matter in hand be a concert review, the renowned Music and Mus...

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Archive Collection

F A COLLINS MANUSCRIPTS

17th century-20th century

Comprising (a) Material for the history of Kirkburton including, Hearth Tax, 1666 and 1672-1674, Subsidy Rolls and genealogical notes on the families of Armitage, Booth, Brooke, Castle, Peace and Sav...

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Additional papers of Frank Beckwith

Beckwith, Frank (1904-1977)

1774-1960

This accrual comprises 7 boxes. Box 1 includes typed copies of articles from the 'Gentleman’s Magazine' c.1790, relating to the history of the Baptist church with notes and references, 2 folders of...

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