Dark watercolor with minor water damage of a medical center building

Watercolor of the medical center building for #ColourfulArchives #Archive30

A framed photo of a patchwork quilt on the left and a paper certificate on the right

Day 6 of #Archive30 was #ColourfulArchives and what could be more colourful than a handmade quilt? This is just a photo of the quilt and a certificate presented to Mrs E Elliott by the children of Wantage CofE School for designing and making their Millenium Quilt.

Centennial Towers building with a 2-story multi-colored star decoration, and a banner hung over the front door reading The Wonderful World of KSC. A paper football player stands on the lawn.

With @unkearney.bsky.social Homecoming comes even more color on campus! Although it's not Homecoming time, we'll take a pop of color whenever we can get it. The Centennial Towers folks here are showing off their school spirit with a huge star and a rainbow banner. #Archive30 #ColourfulArchives

Watercolor painting of the stained glass window

Sunday's #Archive30 theme was #ColourfulArchives. Archives aren't always black & white; sometimes they're full of vibrant colours, like this watercolour painting of the stained glass window by Louise Cecilia Bazalgette Lucas Stratton in 1897. The window was made for Lucas Hospital, Wokingham in 1655

#Archive30 #ColourfulArchives

#Archive30 #ColourfulArchives
One of our most colourful collections is our collection of student drawings.
The more than 14,000 sketches provide an insight into art education in German schools with their variety of techniques, materials and themes:
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#archive30 #day6 #colourfularchives

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#medicinalgarden #biodiversitygarden #sustainability

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So #ColourfulArchives is today's #Archive30 theme.

The club has many items attesting to its friendships with other mountaineering clubs - but this is the most colourful! From the Italian Alpine Club.

Front page cover of The Practitioner advertising a drug available at the time (1960)

List of Archive 30 themes for the month

Day 6 #Archive30

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#ColourfulArchives

Something different to usual, front cover of #Thepractitioner from January 1960

Who can spot the link to today’s theme?

#Amphactil
#Histpharm
#1960s
#Mentalhealthhistory

Thanks to Ceri for the donation of P journals

The image shows a charter that is written on parchment, that has a seal attached to it by some cord. The writing is in Latin and there is some colourful illumination and gilding of the letters and some of the border. The black seal only partially survives and is encased in a brown conservation wax. The cord is black and white and tied to the bottom of the charter and then entwined through the seal.

This is a close-up image of the beginning of the charter, which is an off-white colour. The first letter is larger than the rest of the text and is coloured with red, green and blue designs of an ivy like growing plant. There is also gilding on the letter and designs and the text of the document is handwritten in Latin.

This is a close-up image of the border of the charter, which is on an off-white colour. The border is coloured with red, green and blue designs of an ivy like growing plant. There is also gilding on the letter and designs and the text of the document is handwritten in Latin.

Today's theme is #ColourfulArchives for #Archive30. 

We have an illuminated charter of Henry VI, dated 6 November 1459, incorporating the Guild of Corpus Christi in York. (Y/ADM/1/1/23)

#york #archivesandart #medieval #charter #archives #seal #15thcentury #manuscript

#Archive30 #ColourfulArchives This page from a Guest Keen & Nettlefold promotional book of 1948 shows all the different coloured screws that were available, including violet and green! @arascot.bsky.social #IndustrialArchives

A coloured drawing of a large building labelled as 'The Derbyshire Miners' Welfare Convalescent Home, Skegness'. There are trees and lawns surrounding the building, where men are walking towards. There is even a patch of sand to the bottom right hand corner.

This lovely colourful drawing shows the Derbyshire Miners' Welfare Convalescent Home in Skegness in 1927. You can even see the sand in the bottom right of the picture, showing just how close to the sea it was, compared with the miners' native Derbyshire.

#ColourfulArchives #Archives30

Nineteenth-century election rituals: the chairing of Members Although their formats may have changed, several key elements of nineteenth-century elections – the canvassing of voters, the nomination of candidates and the polling – remain part of the electoral…

For #Archive30 #ColourfulArchives here’s our post on one of the most colourful parts of an early to mid-nineteenth century election: the chairing of the victorious candidates. Find out more about this election ritual here: victoriancommons.wordpress.com/2023/03/14/n...

Pen, ink and watercolour architectural illustration

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Architectural illustration with pen, ink and watercolour, of the dome of Akbar's tomb in Sikandra, India, the mausoleum of the third Mughal emperor. @arascot.bsky.social

Section from Coe's map of Walthamstow, 1822. Marsh Street (now High Street) is shown on the western side, meeting Hoe Street at the central intersection. St Mary's Church is at the centre on the eastern edge.

Coe's 1822 map of Walthamstow is our earliest map of the whole parish. With colour shading to denote buildings & various types of land use, it depicts water features & trees in some detail. We love its vibrant shade of green! Marsh Street (now High Street) is shown here #ColourfulArchives #Archive30

My husband’s Nan Sarah, collected postcards sent to her. This included dozens of silks sent to her from the front by her husband, Joe

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One of our very #colourfularchives is this burgess ticket issued to Agnes Husband in 1926. This was also known as the Freedom of the City. Agnes was a suffragist, women's rights campaigner and one of the first women to be elected to public office in Dundee. #Archive30

Today's theme for #Archive30 is #ColourfulArchives.

Whether it's red or yellow or pink or blue, orange or purple or green. Why not show off your impressively coloured items from your collections. Show us that it's not all just in black and white.

Flying onto the scene for @arascot.bsky.social #Archive30 is former Head of Department of the Leciester School of Art Jerzy Karo and his #ColourfulArchives cover of Poland Magazine. #DMUat155 @dmuleicester.bsky.social #dmuforlife #art @exploreyourarchive.bsky.social @librarydmu.bsky.social

Drawing of the Museum’s Front Hall by William Collman and Alfred Stevens in 1847

British Museum floor plan 1850s

British Museum Round Reading Room

Design for the Round Reading Room windows, Sydney Smirke, 1856

The British Museum archive has many colourful items. These photos, plans & drawings show some of the colour schemes, designs & layout for the beautiful Museum building. #Archive30 #ColourfulArchives #britishmuseum #archive

Front cover of a 1937 green pocketbook with a black image (royal coat of arms) and inscription ("Metropolitan Police / POCKET DIRECTORY AND DUTY HINTS / 1st January 1937").

Though we do have rather a preponderance of blue, pretty much every colour of the rainbow is represented in our collections ... #Archive30 #ColourfulArchives

An array of colourful, flower relief scraps, arranged to make 'SB' and '1891'.

An array of colourful, flower relief scraps, arranged to make 'SB' and '1891'.

🎨 Today's #Archive30 theme is #ColourfulArchives!

🌸 Spring has sprung in his beautiful late-Victorian scrap album, which we think was compiled by Sibell Uppleby (née Brandon) when she was a young woman in 1891.

✂️Sibell's scrap album is part of a recent addition to the Papers of William Bull.

The Day-Glo Designers Guide; black cover with arch and nature scenery, in neon colors

The Day-Glo Designers Guide. Frequently, Day-Glo fluorescent color has been used to shout. And why not? Day-Glo is up to four-times brighter than ordinary color, so it commands attention ordinary color cannot. Its success at point-of-purchase, perhaps, created the impression that all fluorescence could do is scream. Well, the Designer's Guide is out to shatter that illusion. Inis, you'll discover - if in fact you haven't already - yet another dimension to Day-Glo. one that whispers. Warms. Laughs. As well as shocks and shouts. In short, the facility to evoke graphically a lexicon of emotions. And not a one dull. This book is intended to be a working tool, to let you see how fluorescence is likely to reproduce under differing circumstances, with different techniques. In a few cases, we have been able to use the original working art. In most instances, however, our lithographer has photographed the finished piece and reproduced it with Day-Glo color. (For specific information, turn to th

4 Day-Glo examples. Top left reads Cream, Wheels of Fire, in pink on a silver metallic background; Top right reads Cream Disraeli Gears with several people, wings, flowers, and other embellishments in all Day-Glo colors. Bottom left: We're All Mad Here, written in black over a green background with red vines; blue-green cat outlined in orange and yellow. Bottom right: Circular mandala-like pattern made of people, in yellow and green

6 examples of Day-Glo. Top are curving geometric patterns in day-glo. Bottom Color Engineer: 9 squares with spirals and stripes in pink, orange, black, and mint. Universal Presents The Happiest Roadshow of 1967 - three women dance in front of the pink/orange cloche of another; Lord and Taylor written in pink cursive on a green background

One of our favorite #ColourfulArchives items is The Day-Glo Designer's Guide. Published in 1969, it highlights designs with Day-Glo. This book is even trippier in person, with metallic backgrounds on some images and intense bursts of color. #Archive30 #Art

Our old medicines are a talking point💗

In 1979 a #gri nurse found an unlabelled bottle on the ward & had a quick sniff

Had to be sent home soon after having inadvertently snorted the ward’s cocaine supply😳

How’s that for historical crack😉

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#Archive30