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Total number of records: 487

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Archives479
Books and printed items8

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Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture464
Brotherton Collection11
Novello Cowden Clarke Collection8
Maurice de Sausmarez Archive7
Cookery Collection5

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home487
occupations278
house furnishings269
culture194
food174
nature164
community life162
implements, utensils etc149
agriculture139
animals135

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London, United Kingdom7
Genoa, Italy5
Nice, France3
Leeds, United Kingdom2
Croagnes, France1

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Kissling, Werner (1895-1988)124
Orton, Harold (1898-1975)22
Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)21
Scott, Mrs M. E.14
Horner, Mr M.12
Aston, Michael Geoffrey11
Barry, Michael V (1935-)11
Dunn, Ginette11
Malden, John11
Tammivaara, Irmeli10

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The house beautiful

Gannett, William Channing (1840-1923); Wright, Frank Lloyd (1867-1959)

1896-97

12 plates on Japanese tissue (31 x 14 cm.) are laid in separate cover mounted on fly leaf.

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Villa Novello visitors' book

1863-1903

Visitors’ book for the home of the Novello Cowden Clarke family in Genoa. Inscribed 'Visitors brought to Villa Novello'. Begins in 1863 and ends in 1903. The names of visitors have not been signed i...

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Events

1868-1877

Printed materials related to musical and theatrical events held by the Novello Cowden Clarke family at their home, Villa Novello, in Genoa, Italy.

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Concerto Storico

1868-1869

Draft printed and annotated programme, written in Italian, for a series of 'Concerto Storico' [Historical Concerts] held at Villa Novello in Genoa, Italy.

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A Shakespearian Acrostic Charade

6 Feb 1869

Printed programme for a performance of 'A Shakespearian Acrostic Charade' at Villa Novello in Genoa, with a prologue by Mary Cowden Clarke.

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'The Tetterbys' from 'The Haunted Man'

8 Oct 1877

One hand-drawn illustrated draft in pencil and ink and three printed copies of a programme for a performance of 'The Tetterbys' from 'The Haunted Man' by Charles Dickens at Villa Novello in Genoa on 8...

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Villa Quaglia

c. 1855

Plans and photographs of Villa Quaglia in Nice, now in France and then part of Italy. Vincent Novello retired there in 1849 and was joined by his daughter and son-in-law Mary and Charles Cowden Clarke...

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Plan of Villa Quaglia?

c. 1849

Hand-drawn plan of a house and garden, likely Villa Quaglia in Nice, noting the locations of the bedrooms of Mary Sabilla Novello and her daughters (Mary) Sabilla Novello and Emma Aloysia Novello. Inc...

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Photographs of Villa Quaglia

c. 1855

Four mounted photographs of the exterior of Villa Quaglia in Nice, including the garden and wider landscape. Members of the Novello Cowden Clarke family lived there from 1849 to 1861. Each photograph ...

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The home and a changing civilisation

Mitchison, Naomi (1897-1999)

[1934]

Bibliography: p. 161-162.

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Management in family living

Nickell, Paulena; Dorsey, Jean Muir (1890-)

[1967]

Includes bibliographies.

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Management in family living

Nickell, Paulena; Dorsey, Jean Muir (1890-)

[c1950]

Includes Index.

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