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Visual material

Books in Brotherton Room
Introducing the different types of objects researchers in Special Collections can encounter.
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Researcher holding illuminated manuscript
Object types in Special Collections: photographs
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Dorothy Bosanquet's diary, March 1917
Object types in Special Collections: Diaries
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Letter with pen and ink sketch entitled 'Myself'.
Object types in Special Collections: Letters
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Whitaker Collection 445 fol/Map of the world
Object types in Special Collections: Maps
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Andreyev Autochrome
Object types in Special Collections: photographs
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Newspapers
Object types in Special Collections: newspapers
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Cemetery Register
Object types in Special Collections: Registers
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Literary drafts
Object types in Special Collections: creative drafts
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Page from Tony Harrison, The Loiners Notebook
Object types in Special Collections: Scrapbooks
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AntiPoverty Demonstration Flyer
Object types in Special Collections: advertisements & marketing material
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Brotherton Collection Incunabula CAR Ulm 1480 back pastedown manuscript
Object types in Special Collections: Ephemera
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minute books
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Brotherton Ovid - Silenus and a satyr
Object types in Special Collections: Art work
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Items might often be illustrated, or incorporate elements of graphic design. Although these are sometimes kept as separate collections, they can more often be found throughout collections. These might include posters, marketing material, book illustrations etc. Illustration and design can be seen as evidence of material culture, and as such can help us understand contrasting receptions and interpretations of text or can be studied in terms of the history of design and illustrations itself.

Art work can be found throughout collections: from amateur, often anonymous unexpected illustrations which can make text based material come alive, to pieces of work by named artists, which can relate to University Art Collection holdings.

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