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Total number of records: 946

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Archives231
Books and printed items163
Textiles8
Coins4
Art items3
Objects2
People and organisations1

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Quaker Collection516
Brotherton Collection71
University Archive46
Letters Database34
Leeds Russian Archive31
Leeds Philosophical and Literary Society28
Janina and Zygmunt Bauman22
English Literature16
Liddle Collection15
Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture11

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culture8
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photographs6
world war, 1914-19186
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british4
english language - dialects4
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Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019)18
Baedeker, Karl (1801-1859)7
Karl Baedeker (Firm)7
Clark, Edwin Kitson6
Leeds Philosophical and Literary Society6
Shakespeare, William (1564-1616)5
Town Clerk of Leeds5
Bevan, Joseph Gurney (1753-1814)3
Bevan, Joseph Gurney, 1753-18143
Bevan, Rebecca3

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shawl
Textile

shawl

Late 17th century

Very finely twill woven, natural coloured, shawl with a narrow decorative band of a geometric floral patterns edging each long side edge. The same band design is worked width wise to edge the wider fl...

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Textile

914 915 [pattern book]

19th-mid 20th Century

Hardback with black and purple mottled covers. Contains fabric samples, all of which are monochrome black with woven patterning mostly of repeating geometric designs, some with floral patterning. Inc...

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Textile

Été 1954 Envoi 3

Société des Nouveautés Textiles

1954

Softback with buff coloured covers. Black text on cover. Contains garment fabric samples. Patterning is mostly in varied types of plaid but also includes stripes and geometric dobbies. Patterning ...

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Design
Textile

Design

Marchini, Guido (1929-2008)

1950-2008

Painted geometric design with a pattern of green, yellow and red squares with blue flowers on a blue background

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kantha style panel
Textile

kantha style panel

late 20th Century

A hemmed square of kantha style embroidery in neutral with a central image of an elephant and rider within a red striped border. The elephant has a checkerboard design of yellow and blue, and a green...

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poster
Textile

poster of stages of wool production

early 20th Century

A poster with photographs explaining the stages of production of wool, from sheep to cloth. In the centre of the poster is a picture of a merino sheep's head. Photographs show merino sheep on the past...

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uncut warp weave
Textile

uncut warp weave

late 20th Century

A multicoloured cotton check weave, predominantly in brown and blue, with supplementary weft motifs including crosses, hooks, uciks and tumpals. This is an uncut warp weave, possibly a sarong / sarong...

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Archive Item

A bundle of galley and page proofs of various issues of 'Writers and their work', mainly uncorrected.

1959-1964

1959-1964. 19 items. Contents: - 1 no. 3; M C Hollis, G K Chesterton (2nd ed, 1964) 2 no. 5; M Swan, Henry James (revised ed, 1964) 3 no. 73; HA Talon, John Bunyan (reprinted, 1964) lacks al...

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Archive Judaica File

Archive File