Sunrise from Mont Blanc Summit by Gabriel Loppe Three figures can be seen on the summit. One sat as though painting
Today's #archive30 is #PopularItem while @artukdotorg.bsky.social #OnlineArtExchange is #Rural for 'Winifred Nicholson: Cumbrian Rag Rugs' @tulliecarlisle.bsky.social
We're sharing Sunrise from Mont Blanc Summit by Gabriel Loppe as we figure it fits both prompts!
Colour photograph showing the entirety of the 1848 Ramsey town plan. The Sulby River, harbour area and shore are shown. Also shown are town landmarks, businesses, streets, wells, property owners, and tenants.
Colour photograph of a portion of the 1848 Ramsey town plan showing the harbour area. St Paul's Church and the Courthouse can be seen. Other landmarks include chapels, a post office, a timber yard, a smithy, and several public houses.
Colour photograph of a portion of the 1848 Ramsey town plan showing Albion Terrace, Crowe's Stream, and part of Lezayre Street.
Colour photograph of a portion of the 1848 Ramsey town plan covering a stretch of 'Sandy Road' (now Bowring Road) and the start of Jurby Road, where the windmill of Lezayre Mill is shown.
Town plans are always popular with enquirers and tour groups. We all like to see how a familiar place looked a century or two ago, and a single record yields so much information! This plan shows Ramsey in 1848. #PopularItem #Archive30 #ExploreYourArchive #ManxArchives
Screenshot of our online catalogue highlights page showing the link to our page on Enclosure records
Since the launch of our updated online catalogue interface in January, we’ve introduced a Highlight Page to feature some of our most popular collections. This includes #PopularItem like our enclosure records. Take a look and discover what collections we hold #Archive30
Song of the Great Blizzard 1888, "Thirteen Were Saved" or Nebraska's Fearless Maid. Song and Chorus by Wm. Vincent. Published by Lyon & Healy, Chicago. Includes an etching of a woman holding a child, followed by other children trudging through heavy snow
Sheet music Thirteen were saved; or Nebraska's Fearless Maid (An incident of the terrible blizzard throughout the Northwest in January, 1888)
Our most popular item is Song of the Great Blizzard: "Thirteen were saved": or, Nebraska's fearless maid. During an 1888 blizzard, teacher Minnie Freeman saved her 13 students by walking to the nearest house 3/4 mile away. Available: openspaces.unk.edu/spec-coll/10/ #PopularItem #Archive30 #archives
Page from an index to the notebooks of Thomas Sopwith.
Page from an index to the notebooks of Thomas Sopwith.
Contents Page for a Visit to Scotland in April 1828 from the Diaries of Thomas Sopwith.
First entry from a Visit to Scotland in April 1828 from the Diaries of Thomas Sopwith.
A regularly #popularitem (or series of items) in our Reading Room is the series of diaries of engineer, land surveyor and philanthropist Thomas Sopwith. During the 19th Century he meticulously documented his working life and travels around the country.
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Extract of a Land Values map showing the village of Swanwick. The printed black and white Ordnance Survey map has been annotated with colour boundaries and plot numbers corresponding to a separate schedule.
One of our most popular collections is D595 Inland Revenue: Derbyshire Valuation Offices. Whilst the title is not riveting, the collection contains maps and schedules giving extensive information about the owners and occupiers of land and property just prior to WW1.
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A hand-drawn map showing the land ownership in Dringhouses. Names of owners/renters of the land are listed in their plot along with measuremnts of the land owned/rented. The map is drawn on parchment and has buildings represented by a drawning.
A small section of the map showing the difference between enclosed land and land still farmed as strips. The land farmed as strips shows lots of names listed in a small space, where as enclosed land has one name over a larger portion of land.
A zoomed in section of the map showing the handwriting on the map.
A zoomed in section showning the village of Dringhouses. It shows the land ownsership as well as the buildings and dwellings of Dringhouses at the time.
Our #PopularItem is our map of 'The Plott of the Mannor of Dringhouses Lyinge within the Countie of the Citie of Yorke.', hand-drawn by Samual Parsons (1624-29).
#Archive30 #Maps #York #Dringhouses
#Archive30 Day 24- #PopularItem
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Small leather bound notebook in a box
Handwritten page of a notebook detailing the virtues of sea water which amongst other things is good for restoring strength and as a cure for rheumatic pains, healing wounds, colic, and the bites of mad dogs
This early 18th century herbal notebook is a very #PopularItem in our collection. It has cures for everything from hiccups to the plague (and the odd cake recipe too). It's also shrouded in mystery - who was the author?!
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Sir George Monoux Grammar School, headmaster's report book 1919-1928, open at pages giving entries for Jack Acres in 1928 & Herbert Barns in 1926.
Sir George Monoux Grammar School in Walthamstow High Street, early 1900s. This was the school's location from 1889-1927. 📷 From VHM collection available in our Searchroom.
The headmaster's report books for Sir George Monoux Grammar School 1919-31 give useful details on pupils & have helped resolve 2 family history queries in recent weeks. In 1926 Herbert Barns was in trouble after jumping off a moving train at Highams Park! @arascot.bsky.social #PopularItem #Archive30
large molar from a mammoth
This is definitely a #PopularItem with staff, volunteers and visitors! The massive mammoth tooth which was discovered in Oxfordshire in the 1960s. It is hard to tell from this photo just how large it is but to give you some idea, it takes at least two hands to lift it.
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Day 24 #Archive 30. Our most #PopularItem are the diaries of Kathleen Lynn kept between 1916 & her death in 1955, covering her political & medical careers 🥼 The diaries are in an unusual form, with very small, cramped handwriting, creating compact blocks of illegible text 🖋️
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For #Archive30 #PopularItem our most popular post ever is on Disraeli and one nation Conservatism. We're guessing it may have helped with some A-Level and undergraduate essays, and there's lots of other useful material for History students on our site. victoriancommons.wordpress.com/2012/10/05/d...
Photograph of Grindelwald 1898.
Pressed flowers and ferns collected during Amy's tour of Switzerland in August 1898.
Amy Malden's diary includes details of a tour of Switzerland in August 1898 and cycling tours through Kent, Devon, Surrey and North Wales. The diary includes photographs, postcards and pressed flowers and ferns. #Archive30 #PopularItem
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Exploring London : a Junior Shell Guide : Isobel Barnett & Ronald Searle : 1965 back cover. One of the long lived Shell Guides, produced by the petrol and oil giant for many years, and this covering London is one of the 'Junior Guides'. Published in 1965 it is an idosyncratic look at the capital city for children and was compliled by Isobel Barnett and illustrated by the incomparable Ronald Searle. The latter is probably why both visitors and inhabitants bear more than a passing relationship to St. Custard's and St. Trinians! The book is designed by Bruce Robertson (d.2014) who went on to found the design partnership "Diagram".. In a parkland a London policeman, with white gauntlets, directs traffic against a background of spiky steeples and buildings with a red bus in the distance.
#popularitem for @arascot.bsky.social #Archive30 - not exactly a collection but the most viewed item on my Flickr site, by a long mile, is this with over 100,000 views - & I have no idea why! It's not even the front cover but it is charming, its London & its Ronald Searle!
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Today's #Archive30 is #PopularItem. Our edition of the last volume of Bradney's History of Monmouthshire, covering the hundred of Newport and reconstructed from his drafts, sold out quite quickly but you can read it on line here www.southwalesrecordsociety.co.uk/08.htm
#Archive30 #PopularItem This is undoubtedly the most ‘liked” item I have posted online with 100s of likes!
My husband’s family in the 1920s and I’m totally there for the teapot, hats,pocket hankie and brolly!
Typical brits!
Photo of policy number 614342 from a Sun Fire Office policy register. The date of the policy, 23 April 1793, is at the top. The policy reads 'Gilbert Pidcock at the Exhibition Room over Exeter Change in the Strand. On a Rhinoceros & Carriage for the same travelling about the country for exhibition not exceeding two hundred pounds'.
Our #PopularItem is C18th-19th Sun Fire Office policy registers! Fire was a real threat to property so many took out insurance against it. They weren't just insuring buildings either, here's a 1793 policy for Gilbert Pidcock who has insured a rhino. Yes, you read that correctly... 🦏 📖 #archives30
#Archive30 #PopularItem This tiny sketch book full of hand-painted #botanicalillustrations by Beatrice Nettlefold of Winterbourne always proves popular at handling sessions! @arascot.bsky.social @lukaslarge.bsky.social @bsbibotany.bsky.social
One of our most popular items, and one that we always get out for tours, is the Crawford Map of 1776. Its one of the oldest detailed maps of Dundee. Here are some interesting details from the map. #PopularItem #Archive30
What items keep getting requested by researchers? Is there something you always get out when doing tours? What is your most #PopularItem #Archive30
#DMUat155 According to our stats, the top 3 #PopularItem on our catalogue are:
🏫 Estates and Buildings of DMU
🎨 Designs by Ernest Gimson
👩⚕️ School of Nursing and Midwifery
Explore them all here: buff.ly/UjoaGgH
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This crate of papers deposited by Montague Guest in 1906 from the British Museum archive is the most popular item with the archive team right now & we can’t wait to get started on it! #Archive30 #PopularItem #BritishMuseum #Archive
Photograph of an album opened to show images of known or wanted criminals.
This photograph album of known or wanted criminals,1860-1930, is a #PopularItem #Archive30
Keen to find out about a #PopularItem we look after at the Archives Centre?
We hand over to Kath, one of our Archivists, who shares the fascinating journey behind one of Winston Churchill's cigars.
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Grid of 16 different photos associated with Whitchurch Hospital over the years
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Here are some of our most popular…
📷 1958
📷 Nurse Training building
📷 Eyes2me photography
📷 1908
📷 FWW
📷 WalesOnline
📷 Bowling green & Church
📷 FWW
📷 c1910
📷 1908
📷 FWW
📷 c1920
📷 FWW
📷 poison
📷 c1930
📷 c1970
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It's very hard to choose 😵💫
But this is a pretty #popularitem - an original X ray tube
Plus the man who set up the world's very first X ray department in 1896 at #glasgowroyalinfirmary our medical electrician Dr John McIntyre ❤️
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