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