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Total number of records: 70

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Record typeCount
Archives69
Objects1

Count of Collection group

Collection groupCount
Brotherton Collection37
Novello Cowden Clarke Collection35
Maurice de Sausmarez Archive20
Liddle Collection10
English Literature2
Leeds Poetry2
Leeds Russian Archive2

Top 10: Subject

SubjectCount
photographs70
portraits24
photography19
world war, 1914-191810
family8
letter writing8
painting7
art education6
drawing4
paintings4

Top 10: Place

PlaceCount
London, United Kingdom26
Leeds, United Kingdom5
Birmingham, United Kingdom3
Bedford, United Kingdom2
Bristol, United Kingdom2
Cleckheaton, United Kingdom2
Genoa, Italy2
Torquay, United Kingdom2
Ambleside, United Kingdom1
Belgium, Brussels1

Count of People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Robinson, Lilian1
Silkin, Jon (1930-1997)1

Count of Earliest date

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From 180035
From 190034
From 20001

Count of Latest date

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Up to 189933
Up to 199936
Up to latest1

Archive File

MEREDITH, C A L

1915-1918

Typescript recollections (nd); 12 Photographs, mainly of training in the United Kingdom (1915-1918).

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Cartes de visite

c. 1860-1880

Two silk carte de visite albums belonging to Mary Cowden Clarke, containing 36 cartes de visite of portraits and places from various different photographic studios in the United Kingdom and Europe. On...

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Archive Sub-series

Travel, architecture and landscapes

c. 1940-1969

Black and white and colour photographs and negatives of architecture and landscapes in France, Italy, East Africa and the United Kingdom, taken by Maurice de Sausmarez. Includes enlarged photographs o...

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Archive File

PHOTOGRAPHS

1917-1919

Item A: 8 photographs of North Russia (nd)(RAF (Royal Air Force) landing strip and tents; Damaged aircraft; Ground crew with bombs; Naval ships at anchor in a bay). Item B: 12 photographs by Richard...

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KILBY Family

1910s-1920s

Photographs of and by Ernest and Richard Kilby taken during WWI (Friends' Ambulance Unit (British Red Cross Society) France) and Quaker relief operation in Buzuluk, Iakovlevka, Pavlovka, Pugachev[sk?]...

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BIER, MARTIN

1915-1919, 1940

18 printed maps (c 1916); 18 hand drawn maps (c 1916); Letters relating to a lack of beer (nd); Orders relating to Allied gas attacks (23 Mar 1916); 7 sets of orders (9 July 1916, 25 July 1916, 1 Sep ...

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ADDISON, EDWARD

1914-1919, 1961, 1977

3 Friends' War Victims Relief Committee reports, two relating to the Marne and Châlons-sur-Marne (nd, Nov 1914-Feb 1915, Dec 1914-Feb 1915); French identification permit (18 Sep 1917); Certificate of...

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BARRY, JESSICA HOWARD ('POPPY') (NÉE ROBINSON)

1914-1923

File A: Manuscript letter from Nellie M Barry to her cousin, Rose Grosvenor, of Rhode Island, USA (23 Aug 1914); 3 photographs of LG Barry, two with his ASC (Army Service Corps) unit (nd); 42 photogra...

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Personalia

Silkin, Jon (1930-1997)

c.1947-1997

2 boxes containing mixed personal items and papers belonging to Jon Silkin. Includes the following: - Diaries for 1966 (letters inserted, incl. Lionel Miskin, Falmouth School of Art), 1977-78, 1979,...

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Archive Item

Photograph of George Dawson

c. 1870

Photograph of the nonconformist preacher George Dawson.

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Photograph of Frederick Haines

3 Sep 1889

Photograph of the banker Frederick Haines, inscribed on the reverse.

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Photograph of Herbert New

c. 1870

Undated photograph of Herbert New, possibly the lawyer and antiquary.

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