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Description: | Housed in the Reference Library, this is the countyÃ's main collection of material about aspects of Herefordshire. As well as a comprehensive collection of books of local interest it also includes county newspapers from 1770 to the present; directories; poll books and electoral registers; photographs, prints, drawings,water-colours and engravings; census returns ( 1841-1901 ) on microfilm; maps; and some important manuscript volumes. Amongst the latter are collections of notes relating to several volumes of John DuncumbÃ's county history, including those for the unpublished hundreds; the minute books of two of the cityÃ's guilds; manuscripts of ParryÃ's Ã- History of Kington Ã- and WilliamsÃ's Ã- History of RadnorshireÃ; letters of the Leominster painter John Scarlett Davis; and several volumes of manuscripts relating to the Scudamore family. | Subjects: | Craft guilds Guilds Census data Electoral registers Poll books | Source: | Cornucopia - Discovering UK Collections | FAX: | 01432 383607 | Telephone: | 01432 383600 | Identifier: | oai:www.cornucopia.org.uk:7805 | Go to resource |
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