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Archive Print Item

Villare Anglicum, or, A view of all the cities, towns, and villages in England : alphabetically composed, so that naming any town or place, you may readily find in what shire, hundred, rape, wapentake, &c., it is in

Spelman, Sir Henry (1564?-1641); Speed, John (1552?-1629)

1678

Principally derived from the tables to the maps prepared by John Speed. Cf. Lowndes, p. 2474. In double columns. Advertisement on p. [461-464].

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Coin

Denomination: forty nummi

Date(s): 600-601

Issuer/creator: Maurice (582-602)

Place: Antioch

Material: copper alloy

handbag sampler
Textile

handbag sampler

Pesel, Louisa F (1947)

1870-1947

Part of a design for a handbag. Cross stitch embroidered corner design with a geometric pattern.

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Name: Blessard, John junior

Reference: Carlton Hill A2

Meeting: Knaresborough MM 1754-75

Place: Rawdon

Pages: rep to MM 17, 48; ren to QM 72


Archive Sub-collection

GIBSON Collection

[1860s]-1917, nd

Modern prints of photographs of: MacCallum family members and Shlissel'burg Calico Printing Mill, 1890s-1900s /1-5/; Edward Gibson, staff of and visitors to Shlissel'burg Calico Printing Mill, [1914?]...

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Archive File

Archive Collection

PHOTOCOPY OF RENTAL OF FOUNTAINS ABBEY

(1496-1497)

With transcript in Latin. Original is WYAS: Leeds, Vyner MSS5458.

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Archive Print Item

WILPOWER

Women in libraries newsletter. Originally called Women in Libraries Newsletter. 1986: Mar- conference proceedings; (34) Nov-Dec 1987: (37) May-Jun; (38) Jul-Aug; (39) Oct; (40) Nov-Dec

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Sender: Cable, George Washington

Recipient: Shorter, Clement King

Letters: 1

Date(s): n.d.

Location: BC. Shorter correspondence

Note: Enclosed is a typed copy of a poem headed "To Clement K. Shorter" with a signature (typed): "Yours truly, G.W. Cable", dated May, 1898.

Title: [unknown]

Author: Anonymous

Date(s): 173- ?

Manuscript: Lt 13

Contents: Doggerel riddling verses, apparently addressed to a woman, on how she will

end up being used by men despite seeming happiness between them

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