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Archive Print Item

Name: Clothing

Reference: Carlton Hill H1

Meeting: Settle MM 1666-1700

Pages: 172


Archive Object File

cloth

c.1914-1918

1 Cloth, silk and lace, embroidered with a picture of Ypres and the word Ypres, given to donor by her fiance

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Textile

cloth

David Whitehead and sons.

late 20th Century

A cotton cloth with an over all design of prancing red and white horses on a brown and orange background of repeated circles. This cloth is produced by David Whitehead & Sons, a textile firm in Malaw...

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Name: Clothing

Reference: Carlton Hill Q8

Meeting: Brighouse MM 1786-1796

Pages: needed 67; of Gildersome pupils 447

Name: Clothes

Reference: Carlton Hill EE25

Meeting: Halifax Women's PM 1706-82

Pages: rules concerning 6

Name: Clothing

Reference: Carlton Hill A21

Meeting: Knaresborough Women's MM 1694-1723

Pages: for a poor Friend 99, 119; clothing stolen 122

Name: Clothing

Reference: Carlton Hill A22

Meeting: Knaresborough Women's MM 1723-1747

Pages: simplicity of 106, 140, 146, 149

Name: Clothing

Reference: Carlton Hill C2

Meeting: Keighley Women's PM 1700-1721

Pages: 103


Archive Print part

On clothing

Nicholson, George (1760-1825)

1800

Title-page is engraved.

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Archive Print Item

Plain clothes

Houston, Libby

1971

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Archive Print Item

The cloth of flesh

Jennett, Seán

[1945]

Poems.

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