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Advertisement for Lipton's tea
Advertisement, ImageThis advertisement is for tea manufacturing company, Lipton’s Tea. It features an illustration of an Indian woman dresse...
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Album of Baha’i calligraphy
Manuscript Created date: early 19th – early 20th centuryAn album of Baha’i calligraphy including childhood calligraphic exercises by Baha’u’llah and tablets by Baha’u’llah copi...
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Baha’i ‘Revelation’ Writing
Manuscript Created date: late 19th centuryA collection of ‘revelation writing’, made under the direction of Baha’u’llah. What is ‘revelation writing’? As Baha’u’...
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Banarasa-vilasa, Jain religious poetry
Manuscript Created date: 19th centuryAn anthology of Jain Digambara religious poetry. What is the manuscript? The Banārasī-vilāsa is a collection of philoso...
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Charles Booth's London Poverty Map
Map, ImageCharles Booth, a shipowner, sought to refute socialist allegations that a quarter of London’s population lived in povert...
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Christmas card with picture of tea leaves
Card, Illustration, Image Created date: c. 19th centurySir Henry Cole devised the first Christmas card in 1843, but it wasn’t until the 1880s that festive cards were mass prod...
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Cigarette Cards depicting soldiers of the West Ind...
Cigarette card Created date: c. 1890sThese cigarette cards, and others such as Philips cigarettes, were typical collectors items at the turn of the 20th cent...
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Collection of rules for Buddhist monks
Manuscript Created date: 19th centuryThis palm leaf manuscript contains Bhikkhu Patimokkha and Bhikkhuni Patimokkha (rules to be obeyed in communities of mon...
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Coloured illustrations of Buddhist heavens and hel...
Manuscript, Illuminated manuscript, Image Created date: 19th centuryA folding book manuscript in 59 folds made in Upper Burma. It has tooled leather covers with paper labels dated Manadala...
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Corrected typescript of Act I of Lady Windermere's...
Manuscript, Draft, Playscript Created date: 1892This is a typescript of Act I of Lady Windermere’s Fan by Oscar Wilde, which contains many handwritten changes and addit...
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Depiction of a procession during the Buddhist Thad...
Manuscript, Paper folding book Created date: 19th centuryA 19th-century Burmese folding book manuscript. What does it show? This manuscript contains images of eight festivals in...
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Extracts from the Tipitaka
Paper folding book, Manuscript Created date: 19th centuryAn 19th-century funeral or commemoration book. About the manuscript This Thai folding book (samut khoi) made from mul...
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Group photograph from Lady Windermere's Fan
Photograph, ImageThis image was taken by Alfred Ellis of the first production (1892) of Oscar Wilde's play Lady Windermere's Fan at St Ja...
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Henry Irving’s annotated playscript of King Lear,...
Book, Playscript, Manuscript annotation Created date: 1892Henry Irving (1838–1905) was a popular Victorian actor-manager who directed and performed in numerous Shakespeare plays ...
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'Hyde Park Gate News', a magazine by Virginia Wool...
Manuscript, Periodical, Ephemera, Drawing, Image Created date: 1891–95These are the 69 surviving issues of ‘Hyde Park Gate News’, a family magazine produced by Vanessa Stephen (afterwards Be...
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