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Total number of records: 12

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Collection groupCount
Business Archives5
Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture5

Top 10: Subject

SubjectCount
textile industry12
business records5
community life5
occupations5
food3
manners and customs3
social life and customs3
agriculture2
clothing and dress2
commercial correspondence2

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Barker, Aldred F (1868-1964)2
Aldous, Leonard1
Barker, Benjamin (1838-)1
Barry, Michael V (1935-)1
Calvert, Valerie E1
Christopher Waud and Company1
Edward Ripley and Son1
Goddard, Mr1
Hart, Solomon Alexander (1806-1881)1
Hutt, Francis1

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Dyed Egg
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Dyed Egg

Calvert, Valerie E

[1961-1962]

Decorated pasche egg dyed in onion skins, on a wooden board in a house in Workington (Cumbria).

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John Bancroft and Company Limited, Business Archive

John Bancroft and Company Limited

1885-1938

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

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Sound Recording, Buckinghamshire

Tilling, Philip M (1938-); Barry, Michael V (1935-)

1967

Francis Hutt, recorded in Horton; talks about building and thatching corn stacks; clipping hedges; market gardening; milk round with pony - first job, aged eleven; carters' wages; ploughing and horse ...

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Christopher Waud and Company, Business Archive

Christopher Waud and Company; Waud, Christopher (1806-1866)

1885-1919

Records, 1885-1919, in chronological order. 1. Debtors' Ledger. 1885-1898. Accounts of named purchasers of yarn and noils. All seem to be located in West Riding. Discounts on payments are detailed. ...

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Sound Recording, West Yorkshire

Morris, Patricia M

[September 1981]

Olive Metcalf, recorded at home in the Kirkstall area of Leeds; gives biographical details (born in the Bramley area of Leeds); recollections of baptism as a child; family; other Bramley families; Bra...

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Robert Jowitt and Sons Limited, Business Archive

Robert Jowitt and Sons Limited; Jowitt, John (1811-1888); Jowitt, Robert (1784?-1862)

1775-1955

Summary of Contents: I. Debtors and Creditors Ledgers. 1775-1911. II. Private Ledgers (several series). 1803-1913. III. Journal (Stock). 1896-1901. IV. Correspondence. 1775-1909. V. Cash books...

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Leeds Tailoring Industry Papers

Smith, Paul (1947-)

[1970-1992]

Items collected for a project on the Leeds tailoring industry, with related papers. A large proportion of these items are photocopies, and it is unclear when the copies were made. The date range for t...

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Sound Recordings, Suffolk

Pasanen, Leena

August 1971

[Collector announcement]; Mr. Goddard, recorded at home in Helmingham on the 13 August 1971; talks about his experience of World War One in France (1914-1916); joining an Indian division attached to a...

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Thomas Hield and Sons, Business Archive

Thomas Hield and Sons Limited

1906-1916

Comprises: (1) Letter book, 1906-7; (2) General ledger, 1907-11, with a separate index inserted; (3) Order book, 1912-16.

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Report to the State Government of Victoria upon the wool manufacturing industry of Victoria, by Aldred Farrer Barker

Barker, Aldred F (1868-1964)

1924

The report covers the wool manufacturing industry of Victoria, the educational requirements of this industry, and textile research and trade standardisation

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Edward Ripley and Son, Business Archive

Edward Ripley and Son; Ripley, Henry William; Ripley, Edward

1831-1950

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

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Aldred Farrer Barker correspondence and papers

Barker, Aldred F (1868-1964); Barker, Benjamin (1838-); Hart, Solomon Alexander (1806-1881)

1869-1931

The collection contains the professional and personal papers of Aldred Farrer Barker. These include papers and correspondence about his textile related interests and his work on sheep breeding and wo...

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