#Archive30 This #ArchiveObject came to us with our #GuestKeen&Nettlefolds archive. We had no idea what it was until a volunteer came across a reference to the 'constant velocity joint' designed for the new #Mini in the 1960s! A piece of motoring history. @arascot.bsky.social #vintagecars
Three buttons, a coin, and a flag of the Thames Conservancy.
Saturday's #Archive30 hashtag was #ArchiveObject. Various archive objects from the Thames Conservancy will be on display at our upcoming exhibition about the River Thames. Stay tuned for more details coming soon.
Generally we don't take in many objects, but we'll make exceptions for small items, particularly if they are part of a collection. This medal and dog tag belonged to David Kidd. We are lucky to have some of his letters sent home from France during WW1.
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My kind of #ArchiveObject 🔬🫀
Last year, we asked David from our Conservation team to pick a favourite object from the collection. His choice? Lise Meitner’s slide rule.🧮✨
David shares why he like this object so much - and how he helped care for it behind the scenes.
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collapsible brass viewer for stereoscopic images
Photograph of Dorothy Pilley
Today's #ArchiveObject is one of our favourites. This collapsible brass viewer for stereoscopic images. Owned by Dorothy Pilley and donated to the club with a set of her photographs. Amazing to see images from the early 1900s in 3d!
#Archive30 #Climbingdays
Vintage C Baker microscope on a wooden surface with teal border and text. Transcribed Text: Prifysgol Cymru Y Drindod Dewi Sant University of Wales Trinity Saint David ARCHIVE 30 LLYFRAUaRHAGOR BOOKS&BEYOND
Microsgop C Baker o hen Goleg Technegol Abertawe. #GwrthrychArchifol #LlyfrPCYDDS #Archif30
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A C Baker microscope from the old Swansea Technical College #ArchiveObject #UWTSDlib #Archive30
Day 26 #Archive30. In 1860, President Dominic Corrigan received his Grant of Arms; "a Chevron between two Trefoils slipped Verts in Chief and a Lizard in base proper" 🦎 Presented in a lovely box, it also features in the stained glass of Corrigan Hall, making it an #ArchiveObject
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small wooden acorn
Today's #ArchiveObject is a personal favourite of our Collections volunteer. This tiny wooden acorn is hiding inside of it a grater for nutmeg. The grater is metal and is mounted into a bone frame inside the wooden casing. This one dates from the 1800s but they were popular from the 1600s
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A small wood cabinet with drawers opened displaying labelled microscopic histology slides of tissue preparations.
A small brown box with labels and a pencil lying beside it for scale.
The side view of a small wooden case with labels of named diseases.
A small wood cabinet with drawers opened displaying labelled microscopic histology slides of tissue preparations.
This beautiful miniature cabinet of microscopic slide preparations belonged to Professor of Materia Medica, Ralph Stockman. With the obligatory pencil for scale! #Archive30 #ArchiveObject
Do you have an interesting #archiveobject amongst your collections? Does it have an interesting story? Why is it in the archive? #Archive30
Page of a C17 inventory. Transcript: Made in October 1665 13 scubled spiters 03 spiters made redy 03 scubled shovels 16 pick helves 01 long pick helve in the new hall 17 sulow beames in the malt loft x sullow master handles malt loft x 02 master handles in the pigs hoolk loft 05 chipps – 3 chips more from the car house, ould 01 skymington spiter 24 rayles 4 shovels – scubled xiiij by handles
Today's #Archive30 is #ArchiveObject. The inventory of John Gwin's house in Llangwm (transcript in www.southwalesrecordsociety.co.uk/35.htm) had us puzzled - what are scubled spiters? How do they differ from spiters made ready? And what on earth is a skymington spiter?
Colour photograph of an ornamental stonemason's mallet in its presentation case. The mallet is made from ivory with silver plaques and decorative trimmings.
Colour photograph showing in close-up an inscribed silver boss fixed to the head of the mallet. The text reads: Presented to Mrs Loch on laying the foundation stone of Philip Christian's School, Peel, 15th June 1877'.
For #ArchiveObject, here's a piece of #IsleOfMan education history: an ornamental stonemason's mallet presented to Lady Elizabeth Loch on laying the foundation stone of Philip Christian's Boys' School on Poortown Road, Peel, in 1877. #Archive30 #ExploreYourArchive #ManxArchives
Joe was a Lewis gun operator and stayed at his post as others around him fell
Joe was in the KLR
He spent 6 months in a military hospital in Chester and left permanently deaf in one ear.
Presentation of his medal at Heaton Park Manchester.
#Archive30 #ArchiveObject
We have my husband’s military medal awarded for his gallantry under fire at Passchendaele where he was seriously injured while others fell and also photos of the presentation
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It is #ArchiveObject for #Archive30 today, so here’s our article about objects connected with 19th century elections, from souvenir plates and jugs to medals and bookmarks: victoriancommons.wordpress.com/2024/06/12/e...
#DMUat155 For our #ArchiveObject we're going retro tech with this fab 1950s manual punch 💾 Each of these cards holds part of a code—feed them into a computer and voilà... Mickey Mouse appears! #retro #oldtech #ITMS @dmuleicester.bsky.social @librarydmu.bsky.social @arascot.bsky.social #Archive30
Wooden Framed certificate for services during the First World War
Day 26 #Archive30 @arascot.bsky.social
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A lovely framed certificate presented to the hospital for its service during the First World War
#WW1
#FWW
#militaryhospital
#welshmetropolitanwarhospital
#shellshock
#orthopaediccentre
#ColGoodall
#MatronRaynes
A long roll of parchment with handwritten recordings of court proceedings
A close up of a parchment document handwritten recordings of court proceedings
For today's #archive30 we are showcasing one of our Acomb Manor Court Rolls. This collection of documents was one of the key inspirations behind the archive inspired 'Time Travel Radio' co-created by residents of Acomb.
#archiveobject #letscreate #york
Black and white photograph of a male police officer pointing in the distance, with a couple standing next to him. The officer is wearing a striped armband on his arm.
Colour photograph of a textile striped armband
Until 1968 uniformed police constables and sergeants had to wear a striped armband to show that they were on duty. #ArchiveObject #Archive30
#archive30 #day26 #archiveobject
It is the St Mungo's medal 🤩
This was awarded to students & trainee doctors between 1894 & 1944. After a 70 year hiatus, the award was reintroduced in 2017.
Thanks to Dr Sharon Mackin we now have our very own medal ☺️
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The Trustees of the British Museum agreed to the design for the Museum seal in 1755. Here is a plaster cast of it, with a description written on the back & a paper impression from 1760. #Archive30 #ArchiveObject #BritishMuseum #Archive
A black felt sailor's cap with 'HMS Duke of York' written in gold lettering on the cap band.
As we're approaching VE Day, here's a #WWII object in our collections - a sailor's hat for HMS Duke of York, belonging to W D Goodall of Matlock.
#Archive30 #ArchiveObject #VEDay
Bronze-colored belt buckle with an engraving of a football player kicking the ball, between two teachers holding laurels. Text: NCC Champs, Botany Bowl, 1956
Blue sweater with a gold K and a gold patch with a football, reading Botany Bowl 1955
Program with a football player in white and red running with the ball tucked under his arm. Nebraska State Teachers College, Kearney, Nebraska vs. Northern State Teachers College, Aberdeen, So. Dakota. Botany Bowl. Thursday, Nov. 24, 1955. Mustang Field, Shanandoah, Iowa. 2:30 P.M. 25c
Three archives objects help tell the story of
our footbal team's first bowl game, the Botany Bowl, played in Shenandoah, IA: the game program, a letter sweater with Botany Bowl patch, and a belt buckle for being NCC and Botany Bowl Champs.
#ArchiveObject #Archive30 #football
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Original copy of Moses Buchanan’s history of GRI pub. 1832. Gifted to us by @nhsggclibrary & to the hospital by GRI Chairman, Mr J. D. Hedderwick in 1902.
Hedderwick also presented the Florence Nightingale stained glass window (in the chapel) to GRI
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Which I guess I am saying to justify choosing an object from the museum collections for #ArchiveObject (it was acquired along with a transfer of papers, so its nearly archival!) This 'fortune teller' was used at a fair to raise funds for @BartsHospital c1930s #Archive30 (2/2)
Our collections have accrued over centuries, since before there were museums at our hospitals or even an archivist (& there's been one of those for c100yrs). So it can be hard to draw a clear distinction between 'museum' objects & 'archive' records #ArchiveObject #Archive30 (1/2)
#ArchiveObject The collection of annual reports & minute books detailing the day to day running of #gri Have a read at these extracts - always the bed pressures ‼️😂1947 was the last report before the NHS began. Some of the reports can be loaned from #gri library😊#Archive30
