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Photograph of Birtley Belgians
Tony Harrison’s notebook for the poem ‘v.’
Scrapbook of Bradford views and portraits
Drawing of a retort used by Boulton and Watt to provide gas lighting at Phillips and Lee textile mill Salford, 1805.
Port Sunlight Works and Village c1914
John Crossley and Sons Limited, carpet manufacturers of Dean Clough, Halifax, Centenary Illustration, 1903
‘Our Northern Film Heritage’
Registration card for the Municipal School of Art, Manchester, issued to L. S. Lowry
Drawing of the first composite passenger coach introduced on the Stockton and Darlington Railway, 1830-31
Flying machines designed by Sir George Cayley (1773-1857)
Survey and Valuation of Selby Abbey lands surrendered at the Dissolution
Chartist movement poster, Carlisle, 1839
Photograph of four soldiers of the 18th Battalion, The Durham Light Infantry, c.1914
NEWCASTLE BRANCH: RECORD OF REMARKABLE OCCURRENCES AND NOTES FROM PRIVATE LETTERS, 1828-1832
Mersey Tunnel Construction photograph
Photograph of Walter Marshall while serving as a pilot in the RAF in the Middle
Plan of the proposed harbour buildings at Seaham by John Dobson, 1828
Diaries and journals of Ellen Weeton (written 1807-1825)
Lithograph depicting Hetton Colliery
Symeon of Durham On the origins and progress of the church of Durham
Plan of Seathwaite showing wad-mine surface and workings, 1821
Photograph of Marks & Spencer store, Leeds 1909
Photograph of Bessemer Convertor
Photograph of Martin Luther King and students at coffee morning (University Archives, NUA/05289)
‘Wash your hands now – as mummy does!’ c1960 leaflet
Register of Archbishop Walter de Grey, 1225-1255
First Minute Book, Northern Architectural Association
Cunard Passenger List `Passengers for Halifax and Boston: No. 1' (Jul 1840-Dec 1844) 1 volume.
High level Bridge, Newcastle
Illustration of George Stephenson's locomotive, ‘Locomotion’ 1875
Watersheddings
Birdseye View of Barrow Docks and Shipbuilding Yard
Alexandra Park
Cunard Staff Magazine, Vol. 2, No. 4 (Jan 1923).
Letters patent: Charter of incorporation 20 January 1345
Alfred Wainwright 1907-1991
Yorkshire County Cricket Team Photograph, 1956
Baptism of Capability Brown
Painting by Giovanni Montiroli of a design for the Ceiling of the Saloon at Alnwick Castle. c.1850
Huddersfield Female Educational Institute Advertisement
Manchester and Salford Boys and Girls Refuges and Homes Admission Form
Birkenhead Park – sales plan
George Walker’s watercolours for The Costume of Yorkshire, 1814
Plan of the Saltburn Inclined Tramway
Poster advertising The People's Excursion Trains to the Art,Treasures Exhibition, Manchester
Co-operative Wholesale Society, A Colossus of Commerce
The Commission for the Execution of the 7th Earl of Northumberland
Colne Valley Division Labour Union Minute Book 1891-1900
The Victoria Engine designed by James Close 1837
Photograph of workmen at The Bowes Museum
RMS Eskimo in a Norwegian fjord
Everton FC Home Programme
The Peterloo Massacre, Manchester
“The first report of a society for preventing accidents in coal mines”
Photograph of Richard Shufflebottom’s Wild West show taken at Hull Fair, circa 1930
Leeds City Varieties Poster advertising Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs pantomime, 1976
Replica of ‘Rocket’ 1886.
Photograph of the construction of the Tyne Bridge
Ten Years of Nuclear Power, publicity publication by the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority, 1966
Joseph Swan’s recollection of the first use of his incandescent lightbulbs at Cragside
Sketch of wall hanging from the Art Treasures Manchester exhibition,
Photograph of Pit Brow Women leaving screen room at Gibfield Colliery, Atherton, 22 August 1918.
Durham and the North East Coast – Report of the Labour Party’s Commission of Enquiry into the Distressed Areas
‘Jumbo Farm’ Minute Book 1861-1863'
Photograph of Ward C1, 1st Northern General Hospital
Laws and Objects of the Rochdale Society of Equitable Pioneers
Articles of partnership between John Brunner and Ludwig Mond, 28 February 1873
Photograph of Queensway Mersey Tunnel, Liverpool to Birkenhead under construction, 1931
Lord Mayor's correspondence from York servicemen, January-April 1915
‘Part of the Wall near Benwell Hill, with an Apple Tree growing upon its Summit’
North West Lesbian and Gay Equality Campaign Programme, 20 Feb 1988
Lady Anne Clifford’s Great Books of Record
Mortality Map of Cholera in 1866
‘A Kestrel for a Knave’ by Barry Hines - first page
Architectural plan of the Bank of England, Newcastle branch
Roker Pier, Sunderland, under construction
Cellar book for His Grace the Duke of Bridgewater
Cammell Laird – photograph of the launch of the Windsor Castle
University of Durham 1837 Charter
Electric light fittings for St George's Church, Preston designed by Sir Albert Richardson
Ennis and Freeman on Sydney Harbour Bridge during construction
The Whitby Cartulary
Domesday Book
Lanchester Diploma
Ferry boats
Cumberland and Westmorland Wrestling Association
Conveyance of the Ramsden (Huddersfield) Estates from Sir John Frecheville Ramsden to the Mayor Alderman and Burgesses of the County Borough of Huddersfield (Huddersfield Corporation) with full plans, 29 Sep 1920
Charter of Edward II, 12 May 1316
Simon Temple's plan of Jarrow and the River Tyne
Author's proof copy of Love on the Dole
“W and D” Birdseye View of Textiles of Manchester
Pre-Gestee advert c1940, fore runner of PG Tips
York Corporation House Book, 1480-1486
High level Bridge, Newcastle
Photograph of the tanker 'World Unicorn' before launch
Diary & Terrier of Brotherton Parish, 1778 - 1996
Manchester Caribbean Carnival leaflet, 1993
Set of playing cards depicting the counties of England and Wales, Robert Morden, 1676
George Stephenson's Rocket, 1822
Map of the River Weaver, surveyor John Billington 1721
