Scope and Contents The collection consists of a variety of architectural drawings, including around 45 produced during Alec Daykin´s student years from 1935 to 1940. There are also drawings relating to the visit of Queen Elizabeth II to the University of Sheffield in 1954 and to the conversion of Shearwood Road Baptist Church into the University of Sheffield´s Drama Studio in 1970. Also included are set and costume designs for theatre productions both at the drama studio and elsewhere, and also archaeological...

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Exhibition of Antique Vases and Other Curiosities at 202 Regent Street. Dug up on the estate of Lucien Bonaparte, Prince of Canino, from the tombs of the Ancient Etruscan Kings. Printed by Russells Printers, Guildford.

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Entire Body of a Peruvian Woman at 172 High Holborn. Body of a Peruvian woman "Buried alive over 500 years ago" and "The body being exhumed, it was found to be in a state of the most perfect preservation". Printed by Turner and Co., Wood Street, one door from Cheapside, London.

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Handbills for travelling shows, fairs, exhibitions and performances in London.

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The Mummy of an Egyptian King at 18 High Holborn. 4000 year old mummy divested of all its coverings, taken from Thebes by Captain Jefferson.

Scope and Contents The collection consists of handbills, programmes and small flyers for shows, fairs, expositions and circus performances in the nineteenth century. The circus material in the Bramwell Taylor Collection was sponsored by the Circus Friends Association of Great Britain and consists of material relating to 19th century touring circuses, individual acts and purpose built hippodromes such as Hengler’s Circus and Astley’s Amphitheatre. Additionally this collection also contains a small amount of...

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Handbills for travelling shows, exhibitions and performances at Oxford Street and Holborn.

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Handbills for travelling shows, exhibitions and performances at Regent Street.

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Handbills for travelling exhibitions and sideshows at Strand, Covent Garden, Charing Cross and Fleet Street.

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Egyptian Mummy at 139 Strand. Mummy "Entirely unwrapped, as far as decency will permit, ever seen in this country". Printed by J. Harris, 27 Swan Ynrd, Strand.

Scope and Contents A collection of articles, offprints, magazines, photographs and site reports from the personal collections of archaeologists John Waechter and Eric Higgs. The collection is mainly concerned with Palaeolithic archaeology, but this broadens to include zoology, botany, ethnography, palaeoanthropology and African archaeology. The collection is composed of two formerly separate archives, one curated by John Waechter, and the other by E.S. Higgs.The collection is precious on two...