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Total number of records: 31861

Count of Record type

Record type	Count
Archives	23457
Books and printed items	3036
Textiles	2600
Coins	1683
Art items	1039
Objects	41
Indexes	1

Top 10: Collection group

Collection group	Count
Godfrey Bingley Photographic Archive	12620
Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture	5392
International Textile Collection	2600
Brotherton Collection	2223
Cookery Collection	1756
Coin Collection	1683
Liddle Collection	993
University Archive	954
University Art Collection	936
Student Newspapers	780

Top 10: Subject

Subject	Count
occupations	1204
nature	937
culture	714
animals	676
agriculture	630
buildings	627
implements, utensils etc	501
cooking, english	411
community life	409
english language - dialects	376

Top 10: Place

Place	Count
England	3369
United Kingdom	674
Yorkshire	371
Japan	295
China	285
Rome	254
Indonesia	202
Alexandria, Egypt	188
Leeds	178
Essex	165

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisations	Count
Bingley, Godfrey (1842-1927)	4440
Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)	1277
Kissling, Werner (1895-1988)	1123
Wright, John T	541
Marchini, Guido	423
Wright, Peter	415
Sykes, Donald Richard	333
Pesel, Louisa F	325
Barry, Michael V (1935-)	298
Brunk, Wille	155

Count of Earliest date

Earliest date	Count
From 100	522
From 200	978
From 300	14
From 400	5
From 500	14
From 600	10
From 700	4
From 800	2
From 900	6
From 1000	18
From 1100	28
From 1200	99
From 1300	41
From 1400	778
From 1500	155
From 1600	289
From 1700	875
From 1800	14415
From 1900	13319
From 2000	288

Count of Latest date

Latest date	Count
Up to 199	382
Up to 299	1116
Up to 399	16
Up to 499	6
Up to 599	11
Up to 699	8
Up to 799	5
Up to 899	3
Up to 999	3
Up to 1099	9
Up to 1199	22
Up to 1299	95
Up to 1399	26
Up to 1499	564
Up to 1599	378
Up to 1699	246
Up to 1799	764
Up to 1899	7439
Up to 1999	19976
Up to latest	784

Archive Collection:
MS 2287

Brut Chronicle

After 1430

Manuscript in Middle English in several Anglicana bookhands on parchment containing the text of the Brut Chronicle (Prose Brut). Contemporary scribal additions in Anglicana bookhand correcting omissio...

Archive Collection:
MS 2288

[Latin Bible]

13th century

Manuscript in Latin in Gothic bookhand (textura) on parchment, containing the text of the Old and New Testaments. Decoration: Minimal decoration, but occasional fine decorated capitals in red and blue...

Archive Collection:
MS 2289

A pamflyt compiled of cheese, contayninge the differences, nature, qualities, and goodness, of the same

c.1580

Manuscript in Secretary hand on paper containing 'A pampflyt compiled of cheese'. Decoration: Undecorated; page frames ruled. Collation: [A-P4]. With one initial and two final flyleaves. Each quire is...

Archive Collection:
YAS/MD244

DEEDS

17th century-18th century

Deeds relating to Barnsley, Ecclesfield, Greasbrough, Hemsworth, Horton [parish of Bradford], Rawmarsh, Ryhill [parish of Wragby], Thurnscoe and elsewhere 17th-18th century

Archive Collection:
BC MS Mattison

Mattison Collection

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

LOMBARD, Rev Bousfield Swan (1866-1951)

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

ANDREEV, Vadim Leonidovich (1902-1976)

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

SHOENBERG Collection

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

ANDRONIKOVA-GAL'PERN, Salomeia Nikolaevna [i.e. Ivanovna] (HALPERN, Salomé)(1888-1982)

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

Bram Stoker correspondence

1866 - 1911

Correspondence addressed to Bram Stoker, generally dated between 1866 and 1911. Letters have been indexed by correspondent.

Archive Series:
LUA/PER/023

Rawes, Mary Varey

1945-1982

Biography: Mary Varey Rawes graduated from the University of Leeds with a B.A. in Geography in 1948 and with a Diploma of Education in 1949. 1: Letters and notices relating to admission to B.A. Hons...

Archive Art Series:
ART 090/3

View of a Dramatic Performance at the Three Theatres

1770-1790

Japanese woodblock print. Japanese title is 'San shibai kabuki kyogen no zu'. From the series 'New Perpsective Pictures' ('Shinpan uki-e'). Depicts the interior of a theatre with a full view of the...