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'Pock-marked faces: A curious illusion', anti-vaccination leaflet

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1880-1890

Colour lithograph of the S.S. 'Great Eastern'

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1850-1859

Scale drawing of Nottingham Water Works Engine House, England, 1851-1860

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1850-1859

Textile mill safety notice

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1900-1940

Diploma awarding honorary membership of the London Vaccine Institution, London, England, 1826

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1826

Oil painting, portrait of Richard Johnson, of Richard Johnson and Nephew

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Letter from Queen Victoria mentioning chloroform use in childbirth

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1859

Printout of the Daisyworld programme

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1981
A script and a storyline for episodes in Coronation Street broadcast.

Script and story outline for Coronation Street

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1985

NHS O.S.C.3 Form

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1956
[Letter] 1910 Jan 6, North Road Works, St. Helens [to] S.F. Cody, Aintree Racecourse, Liverpool / Fred Brown, builder & contractor [&] timber merchant.

[Letter] 1910 Jan 6, North Road Works, St. Helens

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1910
Jean Elizabeth Gregson’s competition entry for the Royal College of Art Competition of Industrial Designs, Manchester, around 1929-1936.

Competition textile design

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1929-1936

Handwritten pocket diary for 1915

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1915-1919

Handwritten pocket diary for 1918

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1918
Textile sample book, around 1835, containing samples of printed cotton fabric.

Textile sample book

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1835-1860
[Original aeroplane design drawing by S.F. Cody. Whole views and component details. Black ink or pencil on both sides of sheet. No scale]

[Original aeroplane design drawing by S.F. Cody. W

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ca.1909-1910
Goods invoice for cotton yarn transported on the London & North Western Railway through Liverpool Road Station on 16 June 1882.

London and North Western Railway goods invoice

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1882-06-16

Concorde Fact Sheet

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1977-1978

Handwritten pocket diary for 1919

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1919
[One of 34 printed advertisements (34)] Henry Maudslay & Co. Engineers, London. [See Pt1]

advertisement

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1812-1813
[Letter] 1910 Jan 28, North Road Works, St. Helens [to] S.F. Cody, Aintree Racecourse, Liverpool / Fred Brown, builder & contractor [&] timber merchant.

[Letter] 1910 Jan 28, North Road Works, St. Helens

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1910

Handwritten pocket diary for 1916

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1916
[Original aeroplane design drawing by S.F. Cody. Whole views and component details. Black ink or pencil on both sides of sheet. No scale]

[Original aeroplane design drawing by S.F. Cody. W

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ca.1909-1910
[Copy bills, 2 on 1 leaf, to] Messrs. Lloyds, Gosport / Sam'l Jallicoe [Jellicoe, and] Thos. Lewis, [re machinery supplied Jul-Sept]

invoice

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1805

Flyer designed by Linder for The Factory night

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c.1978

Promotional photograph of Cussons Ltd men products

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The Gurney Cash Book: Ledger of The London Warming Co. for period 1856 Aug to 1868 Jul. [Includes information on associated Museum object 1959-10, a Gurney stove from Gloucester Cathedral. 1 vol., 176 (i.e. 352)p.]

The Gurney Cash Book: Ledger of The London Warming Co.

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1856-1868
[One of 820 civil and engineering drawings, chiefly of Bramah & Robinson. Drawing no. 1/23: 'Plan and Sections of a Tread Mill, by J. Bramah & Sons, Engineers, Pimlico, proposed for the Gaol at Norwich'. ca.1820. Line drawing with wash. Scale 1" : 4']

Plans and Sections of a Tread Mill ...

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c. 1820

Durutti Column concert poster

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December 1979

Business Records from Langworthy Brothers & Co Ltd

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1832-1835
[Ms. letter] 1802 Apr 19 [to] Brigadier General Bentham, Plymouth Dock / Mc. Brunel. [2p. on 1 leaf, holograph signed. He will call on Mr Poole and ask him 'to delay the further progress of the patent'. He has 'not yet compleated the little Machine' for he has been making 'a small instrument to assist me in cutting the Screws'. Re Bentham's letter to the Admiralty Brunel adds 'I feel particularly gratefull for the favourable manner in which you express yourself respecting my Block Machines']

[Ms. letter] 1802 Apr 19 [to] Brigadier General Be

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1802

Bolt ends featuring giraffe design

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1880-1940
A New [printed] List of .... Bevil, Spur, and Mitre Gear .... At Peel and Williams' Iron and Brass Foundry, Shudehill-pitts and at Soho Foundry, Manchester. 1814 Mar 25. [Bears engraved illustrations of scenes at the foundry]

list of manufactured products

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1814
[Edition of the Daily Express (of 5 Oct 1936) reporting riots in the East End of London]

Daily Express

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1936

Handwritten pocket diary for 1917

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1917

Spectra Photograph of Toluene Vapour, 1986

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1906
William Fairnbairn's notebook of experiments in the use of various coals on boiler efficiency.

William Fairbairn Notebook

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1840-1870
Poster. White background with black text surmounted by a black image of a crown. Text: H.M.P. MANCHESTER OPEN PRISON DO AS WE SAY NOT AS WE DO Created by Dr. D AKA Subvertiser and examples put up in the Northern Quarter, Manchester on 5/11/2020. Made in response to increased restrictions and fencing in of students at the University of Manchester as a result of Covid-19 pandemic.

H.M.P. Manchester Open Prison poster

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2020-11
Engraving of a Beyer, Peacock shunting locomotive for the Great Central Railway.

Engineering drawing by Beyer, Peacock & Co. Ltd of a shunting locomotive.

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1908
Poster designed by Jon Savage advertising Joy Division, A Certain Ratio and Section 25 for show at New Osbourne Club - Fac for City Funds.

Kim Philby Reappears

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February 1980
Photographic print showing the solar eclipse of 29 May 1919. From an expedition to Sobral, Brazil, which confirmed predictions of Einstein's general theory of relativity. Archive reference code: EVER/A/3/E251.

Photograph of solar eclipse, 1919

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about 1919
The Champion 23-3-1818 [MS/1929]

The Champion 23-3-1818

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Letter on Music Force headed paper relating to a Slaughter & The Dogs gig at The Oaks, Chorlton.

Letter from Vini Faal of Music Force

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1979
Hardcover book or brochure containing samples of coloured rayon and rayon blended threads, produced by Cotton and Rayon Spinners Ltd of Royton in the early 1950s. The front cover of the book promotes the company’s ‘Re-equipped mills with the most modern spinning, winding and beaming machinery.’ The sample volume also includes nylon/rayon blended threads and lists several other synthetic fibre threads that the company was manufacturing. The front cover mentions ‘Ardil’, a fibre developed in the mid-1940s using peanuts as a cheap alternative to wool; acetate; cuprama; and fibrolane, a casein-derived textile fibre.

Rayon Thread Sample Book

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1949-1959
Two boxes of 35mm colour slides (44 in total) showing images of machinery and processes at Herald & Walker Limited and A. Megson & Son Limited, Manchester, 1960-1979.

Colour slides of printing machinery and processes at Herald & Walker and Megsons, Manchester.

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1960-1979
Framed oil portrait of A.V. Roe, Frank Eastman, 1948.

Framed oil portrait of A.V. Roe

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1948
Poster produced by Greenpeace with the text 'It’s deadly serious Mr Reagan / Nuclear Weapons Testing must Stop', and a graphic portrait of Ronald Reagan, President of the United States, about 1985. This forms part of the Walt Patterson archive, and is autographed to Patterson from Greenpeace in silver pen in the top right-hand corner.

Anti-nuclear Greenpeace poster: 'It’s deadly serious Mr Reagan'

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about 1985
Letter relating to Joy Division's performance on What's On

Letter from Granada TV to Rob Gretton

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1978
Engineering drawings produced by Nasmyth Wilson & Co. 1917-1936

Engineering drawings produced by Nasmyth Wilson & Co.

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1917-1936
2 paper wraps containing 21 fabric bolt ends from various companies, including Spruce & Co. and Jacobs.

Collection of cotton bolt ends

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1880-1940