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Total number of records: 28897

Count of Record type

Record typeCount
Archives22344
Books and printed items2906
Textiles2545
Art items1031
Objects40
Coins26
Indexes1

Top 10: Collection group

Collection groupCount
Godfrey Bingley Photographic Archive12620
Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture5392
International Textile Collection2545
Cookery Collection1721
Brotherton Collection1188
Liddle Collection993
University Archive954
University Art Collection928
Student Newspapers780
Art and Antique Market589

Top 10: Subject

SubjectCount
occupations1204
nature937
culture714
agriculture629
buildings627
animals606
implements, utensils etc501
community life409
cooking, english404
english language - dialects376

Top 10: Place

PlaceCount
England3368
United Kingdom672
Yorkshire371
Japan295
China281
Indonesia202
Leeds176
Essex165
Lancashire154
Lincolnshire148

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Bingley, Godfrey (1842-1927)4440
Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)1277
Kissling, Werner (1895-1988)1123
Wright, John T541
Marchini, Guido423
Wright, Peter415
Sykes, Donald Richard333
Pesel, Louisa F325
Barry, Michael V (1935-)298
Brunk, Wille155

Count of Earliest date

Earliest dateCount
From 1700875
From 180014415
From 190013318
From 2000288

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Latest dateCount
Up to 1799718
Up to 18997427
Up to 199919965
Up to latest779
Archive Collection:
MS 1788
1887-1913
This extensive collection (about 10,000 images) was donated to the University in 1913 by Godfrey Bingley himself and is an archive of his life's work. The collection comprises black and white image...
Archive Collection:
BC MS 19c Bennett
c.1840-1866
The letters include 16 from the writer J. Sheridan Le Fanu to Bessie Pigott Bennett (whose younger sister, Susan, he married in 1844); 47 from Margaret Decluzeau to Bessie Pigott Bennett; and about 27...
Archive Collection:
MS 1975
23 Jan 1860-May 1930
The collection includes works by Louis Compton Miall on science, Latin, gardening and education. It also encompasses some letters with one written by Charles Darwin and another from T. H. Huxley. It...
Archive Collection:
BC MS 20c Poetry and Audience
c.1954-1972
This collection contains typescript and manuscript drafts of poems by 33 authors, submitted for publication in the Leeds student literary magazine 'Poetry and Audience.' Also included is a small amoun...
Archive Collection:
MS 2282
1792
Manuscript of ‘Sors misera servorum in insulis Indiae occidentalis’ (Ode on The West-Indian Slave Trade) submitted by Coleridge for the Browne Medal for classical composition in his first year at ...
Archive Collection:
MS 2283
1917-1917
Manuscript in French in modern calligraphic Gothic bookhand on parchment, containing the poems of Paul-Marie Verlaine and Louis Gabriel Charles Vicaire in the hand of, and illuminated by, Alberto Sang...
Archive Collection:
BC MS Mattison
1790s-1963
The Alf Mattison collection is the archive of Leeds socialist and local historian Alf Mattison (1868-1944). His major achievement was to amass a collection documenting the development of British soci...
Archive Sub-collection:
LRA/MS 1099
1900s-1990s, 2009
PHOTOGRAPHS (prints, copy prints, negatives, lantern slides, caption notes: British Embassy staff, Petrograd, 1918 /1-5/; British submariners, Russia, 1916 /6-7/; B S Lombard's wife and daughter (?) /...
Archive Sub-collection:
LRA/MS 1350
1890s-1980s
Books: (with S Liberman, A Prismanova, B Sosinskii, G Venus) "Most na vetru[: Pervyi sbornik '4+1']" (Berlin, 1924) /1/; "Svintsovyi chas" (Berlin, 1924) /2/; "Nedug bytiia: vtoraia kniga stikhotvoren...
Archive Sub-collection:
LRA/MS 1455
1900s-1910s, 1997
Photocopy of "Otkrytye pis'ma i drugie khudozhestvennye izdaniia Obshchiny sv Evgenii Krasnogo Kresta [...]: Spravochnyi ukazatel' khudozhestvennykh izdanii", 6th ed (Petrograd, 1915) /1/ (see also co...
Archive Sub-collection:
LRA/MS 907
1914-1982, 1997-1998
Photograph (and negative) of S N Andronikova-Gal'pern, Paris, nd /1-2/. Cutting of G Vasil'ev, `Neizvestnyi portret', "Nedelia" (Moscow), no 24, 11-17 June 1979, p 21 /3/. Letters and postcards to S...
Archive Series:
BC MS 19c Stoker/01
1866 - 1911
Correspondence addressed to Bram Stoker, generally dated between 1866 and 1911. Letters have been indexed by correspondent.