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Total number of records: 23

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Textiles4
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Brotherton Collection7
International Textile Collection4
Leeds Philosophical and Literary Society2
Quaker Collection1
Novello Cowden Clarke Collection1
Ripon Cathedral1
English Literature1
Leeds Russian Archive1
Cookery Collection1

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history2
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jewish religious poetry, hebrew1
rabbis1

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United States1
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Cortes Society (New York, N.Y.)2
Stetson, John Batterson2
Gandavo, Pero De MagalhãEs (1576)2
Southey, Robert (1774-1843)1
Rossiiskii Zemsko-Gorodskoi Komitet Pomoshchi Rossiiskim Grazhdanam Zagranit︠S︡Ei1
Pierson, Donald (1900-1995)1
Society of Friends1
United States1
Wallace, Alfred Russel (1823-1913)1
Wallace, Alfred Russel, 1823-19131

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Archive Item

Letter from the San [sic] Paulo (Brazilian) Railway Company, Limited

1 Jul 1864

Letter from the San [sic] Paulo (Brazilian) Railway Company, Limited dated 1 July 1864 to (Joseph) Alfred Novello, inscribed at the bottom with details of the interest accrued on 120 shares.

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A participacao da companhia de Judeus na conquista holandesa de Pernambuco

Kellenbenz, Hermann

1966

Translated from the Germany by Alfredo Carlos Schmalz. Inscribed to Cecil Roth. Includes bibliographical references.

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Guia das instituições Israelitas do estado de São Paulo

Federação Israelita do Estado de São Paulo

[1967]

Cecil Roth bookplate attached to reverse of front cover.

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Narrative of a recent visit to Brazil

Candler, John (1787-1869); Burgess, Wilson; Society of Friends

1853

Indexed in: Smith I, 379.

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Transatlantic rambles : or, A record of twelve months' travel in the United States, Cuba, & the Brazils

1851

"Originally appeared between March, '50, and March '51, in a country paper"--Page iv. Errata pages [viii].

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Isaac Aboab, the first Jewish author in America

Kayserling, Meyer (1829-1905); American Jewish Historical Society

[1896?]

Cover title. Offprint from the Publications of the American Jewish Historical Society, No. 5, (1896). Includes an appendix with examples of Aboab's poetry in Hebrew.

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Textile

Bahia fibre sample

mid 20th Century

Sample of bahia fibre, a plant fibre used for making coarse brush bristles and cabling. The fibre was used for brushmaking in Europe from the mid-nineteenth to mid-twentieth centuries, subsequently p...

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Para piassava fibre sample

mid 20th Century

A sample of para piassava fibre, a plant fibre made from the petiole (leaf stem) of the piassava palm (Leopoldina piassaba). The fibre has been used as brush bristles, and for baskets, ropes and hats...

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greeting card

late 20th Century

An envelope containing a card with Brazilian three dimensional embroidery. The card has a circle of fabric with three dimensional blue flowers and beading. Brazilian embroidery is usually made from ra...

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