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Newcastle upon Tyne races
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History of Newcastle [-upon-Tyne]
Manuscripts
According to the Sotheby's auction catalogue these volumes provide a "detailed history of the city of Newcastle-upon-Tyne...apparently unpublished. It begins with a historical and topographical survey of the city and outlying areas, followed by an account of the customs and privileges of the city and the system of local government. The bulk of the work is taken up with a chronological history with annual entries...running from 1251 to 1775;...much of the narrative is dominated by national events and it provides a chronicle history of England from a distinctly radical Whig perspective, using Stow, Rapin, and other sources." Also includes several printed pages from Henry Bourne's History of Newcastle (1736).
mssHM 69956 (vols.1-3)
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[Ledger of races, jockies[sic], owners at Newmarket, 1701-1830, with an outline of William Clift's racing career]
Rare Books
Ledger is comprised of four ms. sections which document the horse races, jockeys and race horse owners at Newmarket during the jockey William Clift's career, which ran from ca. 1778 to 1826. The first section is titled "Summary of races at Newmarket from 1701 to 1778"; second section: "Clift's owners from 1779 to 1803"; third section: "Jockeys 1804 to 1830". The fourth section is 5 ms. pages which briefly describe Wiliam Clift's racing career until 1803, followed by 4 pages listing the number of mounts ridden by Clift for F. Poole, Christopher Wilson, the Duke of Grafton, and Earl Fitzwilliam and Lord Milton, covering the years 1788 to 1826.
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Newcastle upon Tyne, England, United Kingdom
Visual Materials
This collection contains approximately 1,000 printed 19th and early 20th century entertainment broadsides, playbills, and related advertisements, and forms a subset within the Jay T. Last Collection of Entertainment. These items advertise theatrical performances including plays, variety entertainment such as minstrel, burlesque, and vaudeville shows, and optical displays such as dioramas, living statues, and tableaus. Over 250 theaters primarily from the Northeastern United States are represented in the collection, though there are also materials from theaters in the Midwestern, Southern, and Western United States, and approximately 26 items from Canada, Ireland, England, and Scotland. The materials range in size from approximately 9 1/2 x 6 inches to 42 1/2 x 14 inches and consist of single-sheet unfolded advertisements for theatrical productions that were intended to be distributed by hand, posted on walls, fences, or in windows, or sold to playgoers entering the theater. Among the names given to these types of advertisements, according to their size and mode of distribution, are broadsides, dodgers, handbills, hangers, playbills, posters, and show bills.
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Newcastle-upon-Tyne : a sketch-book / by Robert J.S. Bertram
Rare Books
This collection contains nearly 600 monographs published by the British publishing firm A & C Black from the late 1800s through the 1950s (bulk 1901-1936). Many of the volumes were published as part of the firm's successful "Colour Books" series and contain color plates and pictorial cloth bindings. The titles in the collection cover a variety of subjects including travel in Great Britain and abroad, antiquities, art, history of various civilizations, social life and customs of various cultures, natural history, literary classics and other literature (especially juvenile), gardening, military art and science, recreation, and transportation. Many of the firm's early 20th century series are represented by items in the collection, including the 20 shilling series; 7s 6d series; Artist's sketch book series; the "Peeps" series including Peeps at Many Lands; Beautiful Britain; Black's Popular Series of Colour Books; and Black's Water-Colour series. The collection also includes two non-A & C Black imprints by William Collins Sons and Co. and J.M. Dent.
499150:382
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Newcastle-on-Tyne (5 images)
Manuscripts
This collection contains the papers of English art historian Katharine Ada Esdaile (1881-1950), with the bulk of the materials relating to her research and writings on British monumental sculpture, sculptors, and church monuments from the medieval period to 19th century. Material types include personal writings, diaries, correspondence, business papers, family papers and photographs, research files and research notebooks, and miscellaneous published and unpublished materials. Notably the collection includes more than 600 chiefly pre-World War II visitor booklets and pamphlets produced locally by British churches and approximately 3500 photographs taken or collected by Esdaile of sculpture, often funerary monuments in English churches, ranging from large churches like Westminster Abbey to small rural parishes. This collection provides a resource for viewpoints on monumental sculpture in the early 20th century (for instance as represented in book reviews by Esdaile) and for information about Esdaile's experience as a woman art historian in the early 20th century. Given the broadness of Esdaile's scope, from medieval to 19th century British monumental sculpture, the collection is less useful for specific information about monuments or sculptors. In addition, many of Esdaile's attributions in her notes appear to have been based primarily on her own instincts and do not have citations. Many of Esdaile's notes are handwritten on small scraps of paper or are fragments, sometimes making the information difficult to parse. The collection is chiefly Esdaile's files, but the dates on some items (such as post-1950 booklets) indicate the collection was added to and used after her death, presumably by her son Edmund Esdaile, who also made notes on items in the collection and appears to have done the preliminary organization of the papers after Esdaile's death.
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A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers : early draft, incomplete
Manuscripts
Manuscript (holograph) of an early, incomplete draft of "Monday" and "Tuesday" of "A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers" by Henry David Thoreau, with annotations by F. B. Sanborn. 5 leaves have been torn and repaired. Includes separated binding, housed separately.
mssHM 956