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Scrapbook containing newspaper cuttings and handwritten notes on George Hudson, the Queen's Jubilee and local affairs, compiled by J W Knowles.

Scrapbook compiled by J W Knowles containing newspaper cuttings and handwritten notes on culture, politics and local affairs. Includes information on the Royal visit to York in 1893, a programme for St Peter's School, and an article on Frank Lockwood's sketches.

Scrapbook compiled by J W Knowles containing newspaper cuttings and handwritten notes as well as leaflets on the order of service at York Minster and concert programmes for various York venues.

Scrapbook compiled by J W Knowles containing newspaper cuttings, pen and ink drawings and handwritten notes as well as photographs and concert programmes.

Scrapbook compiled by J W Knowles containing newspaper cuttings, handwritten notes and concert programmes.

Scrapbook compiled by J W Knowles containing newspaper cuttings and handwritten notes.

Scrapbook compiled by J W Knowles containing newspaper cuttings, handwritten notes, obituaries, local events and details of soldiers killed or missing in action during the First World War.

Scrapbook compiled by J W Knowles containing newspaper cuttings, handwritten notes and cartoons. Also includes a Yorkshire Savings Bank calendar.

Scrapbook compiled by J W Knowles containing newspaper cuttings, photographs and information about local affairs.

Includes handwritten notes and newspaper cuttings collated by John Ward Knowles on a variety of subjects, including Oxford colleges and coats. Also includes watercolour landscape pictures. Indexed.

The volume contains handwritten notes on a variety of different subjects, including window restoration, porcelain and painting.

The booklet has been made by John Ward Knowles and contains handwritten notes regarding designs and cartoons, glass painting materials, fixing cost of materials, wood trellis and labour. Under each heading, notes have been stuck regarding specific windows and projects, in date order. The booklet itself is made up of cut-down newspapers.

The bundle includes newspaper cuttings and other notes collected by John Ward Knowles and relating to events in the city of Leeds, including obituaries. Also includes two souvenir programmes for the City of Leeds Tercentenary Celebrations, July 1926, and article from Woman's Home magazine entitled 'The Romance of Old China', one programme for the Leeds Musical Festival Album and one exercise book of newspaper cuttings entitled 'Scripture'.

Includes handwritten notes and newspaper cuttings collated by John Ward Knowles on a variety of subjects, including churches, heraldry, abbeys and York streets. Indexed.

Includes handwritten notes and newspaper cuttings collated by John Ward Knowles on a variety of subjects, including glass making, clocks, parish clerks, organs and music.

Includes handwritten notes and newspaper cuttings collated by John Ward Knowles on a variety of subjects, including stained glass in France, choristers, organs, churches and church matters.

Also includes a hand-drawn illustration for an article on Theophilus.

The first few pages comprise handwritten notes about a theatre (including timeline), whereas the rest of the volume appears to be a handwritten index to an unidentified volume. Also includes a York School Board polling card for John Ward Knowles, 1892.

Includes miscellaneous handwritten notes, primarily relating to features of churches, including stained glass windows.

A collection of stories.

The notebook is comprised of newspaper cuttings written by Frank Kidson entitled 'Leeds in the Making and the men who have helped'.

It is likely that this notebook was collated either by John Alder Knowles or his father, John Ward Knowles.

The volume includes handwritten notes and newspaper cuttings about mitres, crowns, the Deanery of York, croziers and heraldry. The inside volume of the cover includes the handwritten note: 'Bound June 1930'.

The box contains numerous seals relating to a number of different families, and was most likely retained by John Ward Knowles.

The volume is indexed.

Entitled 'Diagram to show the continuity of design and practice in the York School of Glass Painting, 1399 to 1529', the diagram is in a family tree format, giving names and the dates they were actively working. The diagram was compiled from information in the wills of glass painters, the Freemans rolls and the Fabric rolls of York Minster. Rolled and wrapped in its original packaging.

The certificate relates to his incorporation as a Fellow of the British Society of Master Glass Painters.

Untitled exercise book compiled by J W Knowles marked '4'. Includes newspaper clippings and handwritten notes covering theatrical news and a poster for the Princes Theatre, Manchester, 1871.

Includes information about priests clothing.

Exercise book compiled by J W Knowles marked '5 - actors'. Includes newspaper clippings and handwritten notes covering theatrical news.

Exercise book compiled by J W Knowles marked '7 - 1927-1928'. Includes newspaper clippings and handwritten notes covering theatrical news.

Exercise book compiled by J W Knowles marked '9 - Glass painting etc'. The volume consists of handwritten notes and printed material, including the technical details of various paintings, notes on glass painting and particular windows such as Appleton Roebuck, St William's Window in York Minster and St Michael le Belfrey, York.

Exercise book compiled by J W Knowles marked '11 - Oil and China painting etc'. The volume consists of handwritten technical details for various mediums and artists.

Exercise book compiled by J W Knowles marked '15 - clouds, waves etc'. The volume contains newspaper cuttings and photographs of various storms at sea, as well as handwritten notes on painting seascapes, newspaper cuttings of fishermen and lifeboat men and pencil studies of waves and marine subjects.

Exercise book compiled by J W Knowles marked '17 - glossary'. The volume contains handwritten notes on a variety of subjects. Includes a pamphlet of astrological tables, details of the values of old money and weights and measures.

The exercise book is numbered '2' and contains heraldic notes.

The exercise book contains notes on heraldry.

One block showing part of a stained glass window in an unidentified church.

One block showing detail from a stained glass window. Marked 'not used.'

One block showing a stained glass window from the church.

One block showing a stained glass window from the church.

One block showing a detail from a stained glass window in an unidentified building.

One block showing details from the canopy at Altenberg cathedral.

The volume is a typescript version of a history of the window, and includes photographs and handwritten annotations.

Reprinted from the 'Journal of the British Society of Master Glass-Painters', 1950-51.

Reprinted from the 'Antiquaries Journal'.

Reprinted from the Journal of the Yorkshire Archaeological Society.

Reprinted from the Journal of the British Society of Master Glass-Painters, 1952-53.

Reprinted from the Archaeological Journal.

Reprinted from the Yorkshire Archaeological Journal.

Handwritten copy of the article, which was later published in the Society of Chemical Industry Leeds Meeting Handbook, 1925.

Handwritten copy of the article, which was read before the Yorkshire Philosophical Society on 20/9/1923. The talk was later reprinted in the Yorkshire Herald the following day.

Handwritten copy of the article, which featured in the Glass Painter's Journal in April 1926.

Handwritten copy of the article, which featured in the Glass Painter's Journal in October 1930.

The article was read at the Society of Architects and reprinted in The Builder magazine on 19 May 1922. Typescript with attached photographs.

Typescript copy of the article, which featured in the Journal of the Royal Institute of British Architects, February 1927.

Typescript copy of the article.

Typescript copy of the article, which was published in the Antiquaries Journal in July 1927.

Handwritten copy of the article, which was published in Notes and Queries, May 1924.

Typescript copy of the article, which was published in the Journal of the British Society of Master Glass-Painters in April 1927.

Typescript copy of the article, which was published in the Architect's Journal in July 1927.

Handwritten copy of the article, which was reproduced in the Yorkshire Philosophical Society Report in 1926.

Handwritten copy of the article, which was reproduced in the Bodleian Quarterly Record in 1926.

Handwritten copy of the article, which was reproduced in the Society of Glass Technology Journal in 1922.

Reprinted from the Journal of the British Society of Master Glass-Painters, 1951-2.

Handwritten copy of the article, which was reproduced in the Burlington Magazine in March 1926.

Typescript copy of the article, which was reproduced in the National Glass Budget, Pittsburgh, USA in October 1926.

Typescript copy of the article, which was reproduced in the Connoisseur Magazine in November 1926.

Handwritten copy of the article, which was reproduced in 'Glass' in April 1924.

Includes handwritten copies of:
'Eighteenth century windows in St Botolphs, Aldersgate', reproduced in the Journal of the Society of Glass Painters in October 1927
'Artistic Craft Guilds in the Middle Ages', a letter to the Journal of the Royal Institute of British Architects in March 1927
'Technical notes on the St William Window in York Minster', reproduced in the Proceedings of the Yorkshire Philosophical Society, 1927
'Van Dyck's Portraits of Madam Kirk & Lady Poulett' (unpublished).

The volume includes three articles written by John Alder Knowles:
'The church of the glass-painters, St Helen's Church, York';
'Gild Windows';
'Leaded Lights and ornamental glazing'

The volume includes an article written by John Alder Knowles, entitled 'A history of the York School of Glass Painting.'

The volume includes details of a discussion held with John Alder Knowles, entitled 'Forgeries of ancient stained glass.'

Reprinted from the Journal of the British Society of Master Glass-Painters, 1949-50.

The manuscript appears to be a draft for an article or book.

Reprinted from the Journal of the British Society of Master Glass-Painters, 1958-59.

Reprinted from the Journal of the British Society of Master Glass-Painters, 1949-50.

Reprinted from 'Stained Glass', Winter 1957-8.

Reprinted from 'Yorkshire Archaeological Journal' 1955.

Reprinted from 'Yorkshire Archaeological Journal' Part 148.

Indexed.

Information about work tools and techniques.

Includes details of the purchase of 23 Stonegate, the family home and business premises, in 1874.

The book lists the costs of repairs to buildings as part of commissions carried out by J W Knowles & Sons.

The volume includes lists of bills to be paid and bills to be received at regular intervals throughout the period.

The volume lists bills to be received and paid, including payments to staff and contractors for various projects.

The volume primarily relates to the business premises of J W Knowles and Sons in Stonegate.

The slide shows corrosion not due to age in the heads of the figures in the window depicting the Coronation of the Blessed Virgin.

The painting was used as an illustration in J W Knowles' 'A manual of glass painting.'

Detail of part of a stained glass window, showing decorative borders and pockmarked glass.

Part of a stained glass window from Lady Chapel at Winchester.

Two medieval stained glass angels blowing trumpets.

Reproduction from a book showing the medieval image of the Tower of Babel being built, captioned 'A Great Building Scheme (MS Add 18, 850)'.

Reproduction from a book showing an etching of a glaziers studio with several men in early modern dress, at work producing glass and designing stained glass images. Captioned 'Art du Peintre sur Verre et du Vilrier. Pl. VII'. Image numbered and lettered, but key not shown.

Reproduction from a book (Fig. 3) depicting four panels of stained glass showing similarities and differences. Captioned 'Vitrail de Saint-Parre-les-Tertres'. 16th century panels painted from 15th century cartoons. From Biver - 'Mode d'Emploi des Cartons'. Note the ornament in canopy is Gothic Angel in one light and Renaissance Cupid in the other.

The painting was used as an illustration in J W Knowles' 'A manual of glass painting.'

Glass plate negative depicting an engraving of a medieval glass making furnace with men at work around it