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Total number of records: 28023

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Archives22103
Textiles2463
Books and printed items2406
Art items985
Objects40
Coins21
Indexes1

Top 10: Collection group

Collection groupCount
Godfrey Bingley Photographic Archive12620
Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture5392
International Textile Collection2463
Cookery Collection1507
Brotherton Collection1075
Liddle Collection993
University Archive954
University Art Collection885
Student Newspapers780
Art and Antique Market549

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SubjectCount
occupations1204
nature937
culture714
agriculture627
buildings627
animals606
implements, utensils etc501
community life409
english language - dialects376
food321

Top 10: Place

PlaceCount
England3365
United Kingdom669
Yorkshire371
Japan294
China261
Indonesia202
Leeds177
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

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From 190013319
From 2000288

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Up to 199919962
Up to latest779
Bolton Woods, Path-Trees-River
Archive Collection

Godfrey Bingley Photographic Archive

Bingley, Godfrey (1842-1927)

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...

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Bennett Family Correspondence
Archive Collection

Bennett Family Correspondence

Bennett family

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...

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MS 1975 Louis Compton Miall's box 1
Archive Collection

Louis Compton Miall Collection

Miall, L C (1842-1921)

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...

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Poetry and Audience - 6th November, 1953
Archive Collection

Poetry and Audience, typescript and manuscript drafts of poems by various authors originally published in 'Poetry and Audence'

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...

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Lyriques choisis de poètes français
Archive Collection

Lyriques choisis de poètes français

Sangorski, Alberto (1932-); Verlaine, Paul (1844-1896); Vicaire, Louis Gabriel Charles (1900-); Watson, Thomas Edward (1851-1921); Watson, Geoffrey (1897-1961); Southwell, Daphne (1907-1998); Spittle, Stanley Denys Trevor

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...

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LOMBARD, Rev Bousfield Swan (1866-1951)
Archive Sub-collection

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 (?) /...

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Autochrome, c1910
Archive Sub-collection

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...

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SHOENBERG Collection
Archive Sub-collection

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...

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Archive Sub-collection

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...

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Bram Stoker correspondence
Archive Series

Bram Stoker correspondence

1866 - 1911

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

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Rawes, Mary Varey
Archive Series

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...

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CC/1 J. T. Whetton medals
Coin

John Thomas Whetton War Medals

Whetton, John Thomas (1894-1979)

1914-1945

WW1 and WW2 medal miniatures of John Thomas Whetton.

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