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Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Valentine & Sons
2
Bamforth & Co.
1
British Council (United States)
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H. Coates & Sons
1
Raphael Tuck & Sons
1
Wessex Yarns (Firm : Dorset, England)
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Accessible by appointment in the Study Room
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Under Certain Circumstances
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Available
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Postcards
54
Photographs
2
Books
1
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1
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unknown
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20th century
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19th century
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postcard
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photograph
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photographic postcard
25
photographic print
21
photomechanical print
19
postage stamp
8
chromolithograph
3
hat
2
birthday card
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collotype
1
collotypes (prints)
1
greeting card
1
lithograph
1
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Festival of Britain (1951 : Great Britain)
18
Ocean travel.
13
Passenger ships.
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Ships -- Pictorial works.
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Aquitania (Steamship) -- Pictorial works.
6
Exhibition buildings -- England -- London -- Pictorial works.
5
Exhibition buildings -- England -- London.
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London (England) -- Exhibitions -- Pictorial works.
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Railroads.
5
British Empire Exhibition (1924–1925 : Wembley, London, England)
4
Exhibitions -- England -- London -- Pictorial works.
4
Franco-British Exhibition (1908 : London, England)
4
Caricature and cartoons.
3
English wit and humor, Pictorial.
3
Photography -- Great Britain.
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Clocks.
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Exhibitions -- England -- London.
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Fashion -- Great Britain.
2
Guinness (Firm)
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19th century
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England
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London
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London (England)
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Great Britain
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Cheddar (England)
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English Channel
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Glasgow
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Holmfirth
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Kerry (Ireland)
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Scotland
1
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George V, King of Great Britain, 1865–1936
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Windsor, Edward, Duke of, 1894–1972
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Yale Center for British Art, Gift of George Gregory Smart, Yale BA 1977
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English
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Main Vista South
1951
2
[Postcard with birthday wishes]
[approximately 1910]
3
[Photographic postcard of an unidentified group of people and 4 wheeled wagon]
[approximately 1880-1900?]
4
The Grand Vista
1951
5
Palestine Pavilion
[1924]
6
[Photographic postcard of an unidentified group of people seated in an open top bus]
[approximately 1910-1920?]
7
Centre of Western Section, Canadian Pavilion
[1908]
8
"Oceanic" leaving New York
[approximately 1906?]
9
"Nellie"
1951
10
H. Coates & Sons
Guinness Festival Clock, Gt. Yarmouth
[approximately 1954]
11
Festival Pleasure Gardens
1951
12
S. S. Cretic
[approximately 1905?]
13
Cunard White Star
[approximately 1931?]
14
The Shell Byplane X-100
1951
15
The Far Tottering & Oyster Creek Railway
[approximately 1951]
16
The South Bank Exhibition
1951
17
The Dogs Cemetery, Hyde Park, London
[approximately 1920]
18
Wessex Yarns (Firm : Dorset, England)
Three postcards advertising Wessex Yarns
[approximately 1900]
19
The Far Tottering & Oyster Creek Railway
[approximately 1951]
20
Cunard White Star R. M. S. "Queen Mary"
[approximately 1936?]
21
Glasgow Exhibition
approximately 1901]
22
"Nellie"
1951
23
Cunard R.M.S. 'Scythia'"
[approximately 1930?]
24
The Stadium Terrace
[1924]
25
The Arcades and Entrance Towers, Festival Pleasure Gardens, Battersea
1951
26
Guinness Clock, Gt. Yarmouth
[approximately 1954]
27
"Wild Goose"
1951
28
S. S. Mauretania
[approximately 1906?]
29
Celebrated liners
[approximately 1900?]
30
Raphael Tuck & Sons
Festival Pleasure Gardens
1951
31
South Bank Exhibition
1951
32
S. S. Manche entering Newhaven Harbour
[approximately 1906?]
33
Cunard Liner "Aquitania" afloat
[approximately 1910?]
34
Cunard Liner "Aquitania" leaving ways -- entering water
[approximately 1914?]
35
Great Southern Hotels in Kingdom of Kerry
[approximately 1919?]
36
[Collection of three postcards]
[approximately 1900]
37
The Flip-Flap : Franco-British Exhibition, London, 1908
[1908]
38
Bamforth & Co.
[Postcard with image of a woman discussing inscription to be written on her husband's headstone]
1908
39
Canadian Pavilion, The Minerals
[1908]
40
[Postcard addressed to Mrs. Wilson]
[approximately 1916]
41
Valentine & Sons
The Fairway
1951
42
H.R.H. The Prince of Wales
[approximately 1920?]
43
The Transport Pavilion, South Bank Exhibition, Festival of Britain 1951
1951
44
Amusement Park
[approximately 1924]
45
British Council (United States)
Groovy baby!
[approximately 1970?]
46
Seaside
1951
47
Stadium
[approximately 1924]
48
South Bank Exhibition, Festival of Britain
[1951]
49
Cunard R.M.S Aquitania
[approximately 1924]
50
Cunard Liner Aquitania
[approximately 1914?]
51
Seaside
1951
52
Franco-British Exhibition, London, 1908
[1908]
53
Nellie
[approximately 1951]
54
Mountain Railway
[1911]
55
Canadian Pavilion, South West Section
[1908]
56
Cunard Liner "Aquitania" leaving ways -- entering water
[approximately 1914?]
57
Valentine & Sons
Crystal Palace, London
[approximately 1920?]
58
Cunard Liner "Aquitania" before launch
[approximately 1910?]