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Archive Collection:
MS 1311

c.1818-1996

The archive includes business and family papers generated by the Crockatt family. The business papers encompass histories of the company, accounts, advertising material and correspondence. There are d...

Archive Collection:
MS 1325

19--

Includes diaries, letters, postcards, photographs, household accounts, notes on bibliography, librarianship and education, papers of various family members, documents relating to Aireborough Civic Soc...

Archive Collection:
MS 1565

1869-1960?

The collection contains the professional and personal papers of Aldred Farrer Barker. These include papers and correspondence about his textile related interests and his work on sheep breeding and wo...

Archive Collection:
MS 1578

c.1800-1952

Comprises: (1) Letters, diaries, and a few stamps; (2) Ledgers relating to financial accounts; (3) Various local maps, some rolled, others folded; (4) Game books for the years 1896-1903; (5) An album ...

Archive Collection:
MS 356

1839-1880

Includes samples of cloth, plans of the estate, sketches of properties on the estate and a schedule of purchased from the estate.

Archive Collection:
MS 713

1801-1982

These papers principally illuminate the experiences of the donor John Manwaring Baines, his parents and children. There is material on pre-war holidays, contemporary accounts by J M Baines of his serv...

Archive Sub-collection:
MS 1701

c.1830-c.1983

The Harveys were one of the prominent Quaker families in Leeds in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. They were related, by marriage, to several other local Quaker families, including the Fr...

Archive Sub-collection:
MS 1703

1812-1902

The collection of family papers and other material was the gift, in May 2002, of Mrs Mary Rowlands, granddaughter of William Harvey and great-granddaughter of Thomas Harvey. Comprises: 1-5, Notebook...

Archive Sub-collection:
MS 194

c.1750-c.1941

Comprises: personal letters, diaries, travel notebooks, legal papers, inventories, etc. of the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries; Records of William Gott's collections of books and paintings; J...

Archive Sub-collection:
MS 277

1793-1912

The material contains business and personal letters by Thomas Perronet Thompson and his family including distant relatives. It also encompasses notes on politics, religion and other topics. There are ...

Archive Sub-collection:
MS 823

c.1745-1941

These papers supplement material in Special Collections MS 277. Some members of the family whose papers are included in this sub-collection appear in standard biographical reference books. There is a ...

Archive Series:
BC MS 20c Blackburn/5/3

1893-1962

This series contains papers relating to Blackburn's family, both paternal (Blackburn) and maternal (Fenwick). It includes family letters and legal papers. Where possible, the names of different family...