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