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Archive Series

NOVELLO, (Joseph) Alfred

1824-1896

Financial documents relating to Novello & Co. and (Joseph) Alfred Novello's investments in shipping and railways, business contracts, designs for the 'Novello Skimmer' sculling boat, sketches and desi...

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Accounts

1833-1890

Financial documents relating to Novello & Co and (Joseph) Alfred Novello's investments in shipping and railways.

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Music

1854-1860

Printed tickets for members of the Novello family for entry into the Crystal Palace, for their participation in the opening ceremony in 1854 and the Handel Festival in 1857. Also includes a printed ad...

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Oil sketches

c. 1830

Undated oil sketches on woodpulp board and canvas by Edward Petre Novello. They are likely to have been painted in around 1830, following his studies at the Royal Academy of Arts and before his early ...

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Press cuttings

1825-1888

Press cuttings on meterological phenomena, inland navigation and a copy of the Courier with a tax stamp. (Joseph) Alfred Novello was known to have been interested in science and invested in new infras...

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Stock certificates for the Royal Exchange Shipping Company Limited

10 Jun 1882

8 debenture stock certificates belonging to (Joseph) Alfred Novello for the Royal Exchange Shipping Company Limited Monarch Line, dated 10 June 1882 and totalling £1,600.

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Receipt from the Royal Exchange Shipping Company, Limited

c. 1882

Receipt from the Royal Exchange Shipping Company, Limited to (Joseph) Alfred Novello for the payment of £320 of the £1,600 owed for the purchase of debenture stock. See also the original stock certi...

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Circular on the 'Novello-craft'

Apr 1859

Photocopy of a printed circular by (Joseph) Alfred Novello titled 'Novello-craft; a proposed methodfor the accomplishing of great speed in journeying over water', in which he describes a design that c...

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Archive Art Item

untitled oil sketch [seascape with boat and fishermen]

c. 1830

Undated oil sketch by Edward Petre Novello, of fishing boats and fishermen on a beach, who appear to be dragging fishing nets from rough waves.

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untitled oil sketch [seascape with two figures]

c. 1830

Undated oil sketch by Edward Petre Novello, of a seascape with crashing waves and two small figures on the bottom right, near a boat protruding from the right.

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BC MS NCC/19/9/4 Advert for travel on the
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Advert for Liverpool to Shanghae [Shanghai] on the 'Clara Novello'

27 Oct 1860

Printed card advertising passage from Liverpool to Shanghae [Shanghai] aboard the clipper 'Clara Novello' under the commander J. Hingson, departing from Prince's Dock on 27 October 1860.

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M.H.J. [?] to Cappon, Signor

21 Jan 1884

Handwritten postcard from M.H.J. [?] to Signor Cappon, advising him to look out for a Cunard steamer ship arriving in Genoa from Liverpool around 29 January 1884, with Peter Feathers on board. Feather...

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