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Total number of records: 120

Top 10: Collection group

Collection group	Count
Brotherton Collection	39
Novello Cowden Clarke Collection	38
University Archive	11
Medical Collections	10
John Evan Bedford Library of Furniture History	2
Art and Antique Market	2
Quaker Collection	1
Cookery Collection	1
Liddle Collection	1
Leeds Russian Archive	1

Top 10: Subject

Subject	Count
portraits	14
jewelry	9
family	7
photographs	6
gift giving	6
hair	5
print media	5
decorative arts	5
time	3
composers	3

Count of Place

Place	Count
London, United Kingdom	3
Genoa, Italy	3
Paris, France	1
Enfield, Middlesex	1

Count of People and organisations

People and organisations	Count
Scattergood, Thomas (1826-1900)	6
Ford, Robert Lawson (1809-1878)	1

Count of Earliest date

Earliest date	Count
From 1000	1
From 1100	1
From 1300	1
From 1400	1
From 1500	1
From 1700	11
From 1800	50
From 2000	45

Count of Latest date

Latest date	Count
Up to 299	41
Up to 399	1
Up to 599	8
Up to 1399	2
Up to 1599	5
Up to 1699	1
Up to 1799	2
Up to 1899	60

Archive Object Collection:
MS 1996

Writing desk of Shadrach Stephenson

1880

With silver plaque on lid stating 'presented to Mr S. Stephenson by theFriends and Workmen of Manston Colliery 8 May 1880'. Includes 2 rulers, two ink bottles one with stopper and a wooden baton.

Archive Object File:
LIDDLE/WW1/GA/DRI/1

Army Temperence Medal

1890s

Army temperence medal - 6 years.

Archive Object File:
BC MS NCC/19/11/1

Photographs of Mary Sabilla Serle

c. 1848

Three daguerreotypes in maroon leather cases lined in red velvet. Photographic portraits of Mary Sabilla Serle when she was nine years old. She was the daughter of Cecilia Novello and Thomas James Ser...

Archive Object File:
MS 1311/21

Two silk ribbons from Davy Crockett Fire Insurance Company of Ploughkeepsie dated 1887 with explanatory note. Given to DAC during a visit to America.

1887

Archive Object File:
BC MS 20c Ransome/4/3/4

Fishing flies

1880-1892

15. Fishing flies. 2 "Eden flies, 1880-1892?, mounted in a small wooden frame.

Archive Object File:
MS 200/50

Copper plates

No date

Copper photography plates [of Philippe de Girard?]

Archive Object File:
MS 200/51

Two metal plates

No date

Two metal plates - of the Leeds building in Marshall / Water St.

Archive Object File:
MS 2055

Robert Lawson Ford

19th century

Special constable's baton and walking stick sword.

Archive Object Item:
BC MS NCC/2/1/1

Pocket watch

c. 1800

A Barraud gold pocket watch that belonged to Vincent Novello, in a cotton cover with a handwritten Italian inscription which gives the date 2 May 1898 and records that the external case was missing. T...

Archive Object Item:
BC MS NCC/2/8/1

Lock of Mozart's hair

1829

A lock of the composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's hair, tied with red string. Vincent and Mary Novello visited Mozart's widow Constanze in Salzburg, Vienna, as part of their travels across Europe in 18...

Archive Object Item:
BC MS NCC/3/1/1

Pocket watch

c. 1800

Gold pocket watch with an engraved and enamelled face and an engraved back. The winding key is attached with string. It was packed in a paper banking envelope, inscribed on the reverse with 'M.S. Nove...

Archive Object Item:
BC MS NCC/4/4/1

Crocodile tooth shawl pin

c. 1850

Crocodile tooth shawl pin with a decorative metal clasp and possibly a hinged lid engraved with 'MCC', given to Mary Cowden Clarke by the American Shakespeare scholar Horace Howard Furness and his wif...