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Description: | -The Resource Collection includes photographs, film, books, trade catalogues, posters and oral history tapes.
The Photographic Archive houses over 300,000 photographic images dating from the 1860s to the present on a computerised laser disc system. The images include black and white prints, colour prints, lantern slied, glass plate and othe negatives and transparencies. The major holdings are Durham Advertiser, Agricultural Gazette, Farmers' Guardian and Huwood's Mining Machinery Company collections, BBC stills and other major modern collections. The photo database also includes many images of items in the collections, illustrations and other material.
There are 100 films of 8 to 16mm of events and activities in the North East; most are on video and will be digitised. The book collection is 64,000 of late 18th, 19th and 20th century date, many antiquarian in nature.
The 5,000 in number, nationally important collection of trade catalogues of suppliers and manufacturers, cover everything from kitchen ranges, decorative castings, banners, agricultural implements and tools, sports and pastimes to industrial machinery.The earliest catalogue dates back to c.1825 though the majority of the catalogues date between 1860 and 2003.
The poster collection includes 19th and 20th century printed posters, leaflets, ephemera, topographical material, maps and an important collection of NER and LNER posters. The oral history collection has 800 recordings.
- | Source: | Cornucopia - Discovering UK Collections | FAX: | 0191 3704001 | Telephone: | 0191 3704000 | Identifier: | oai:www.cornucopia.org.uk:6068 | Go to resource |
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