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General correspondence with the Government School of Art, based at Somerset House.

Incomplete series of printed annual reports, including a large number of duplicate copies for some years.

Includes:
Posters for the School of Art Autumn Session 1889 (2 copies);
Report of the proceedings and observations by Henry James Townsend Esq during a visit to Paris, 1844;
A letter to the President of the Manchester School of Art, 1853;
Statement of Committees of the Yorkshire Schools of Art, 1865;
Report for the examination for admission to the Staff College, June 1884;
List of the duties of the Inspector of Provincial Schools, c.1880s (2 copies);
Extract from the 35th reports of the Department of Science and Art of the Committee of Council of Education, 1888.

Includes various, bills, receipts and vouchers from Mr H Holmes, Agent to the Foss Navigation Company.

Posters detailing when the locks will be drawn.

The papers concern the payment of the salary of the governors of the House of Correction.

Includes correspondence about contracts for rebuilding, letters regarding the need for repairs of the bridge, letter regarding the inspection of the bridge and the conclusions of what to do. Also includes contracts for Fowlthorpe Bridge, report on the sta

Printed flyers, notices, instructions and regulations for the prevention of cholera

Copy of the original brick arch, plan by North Eastern Railway, Foss Island Branch, S94 72/1 bridge no 2
Cross section and general plan from July 1924
from the 1962/3 widening project - general plan, details of retaining walls, details of walls, details of slabs between the existing and new bridges, details of precast concrete units, bridge details, parapet railings - detail drawings, and details of stonework - Drawing type: General plan, cross section, detail drawing, elevation
Drawing number (if any): PH475/8958, C/7196/1, D/7286/2, D/7286/3, D/7287/1, D/7287/2, D/7312/3, D/7313/2, D/7314/1, D/7377/1, E/7061/1
Scale: Various scales
Size: Large
Names: Chas J Minter, City Engineer, RS Bellhouse, City Engineer. KK

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Copy of the original brick arch, plan by North Eastern Railway, Foss Island Branch, S94 72/1 bridge no 2
bridge widening project: OS map with bridge and approach marked, alteration of manhole - detail drawing, widening of footpath - general plan, re-erection of Rowntree's fence - general plan, situ-cast corners and dowelled joints - sectional plan, elevation and detail drawing, white line markings - 1st stage - general plan, drain to York Co-operative Societies Ltd's dairy - general plan, connection to Rowntree's manhole - general plan and detail drawing, proposed electrical ducts across Haxby Road, to feed dining block - general plan, details of walls, pre-cast concrete units - detail drawing
British Transport Commission requirements for construction of overbridges, temporary clearances permitted for foundation work adjacent to tracks - text and detail drawing - Drawing type: General plan, sectional plan, elevation, detail drawing
Drawing number (if any): B/7310/1, B/7322/1, B/7326/1, B/7336/1, B/7350/2, B/7351, B/7352/3, D/7312/1, D/7313/, D/7313/1, D/7342/1
Scale: Various scales
Size: Large
Names: R.S. Bellhouse, City Engineer, Surveyor and Planning Officer
Chas J Minter, City Engineer and Surveyor, CRA, TK

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Includes an incomplete series of reports for Manchester School of Design, Nottingham School of Design, Government School of Design, School of Practical Art, Belfast Government School of Design, Glasgow Government School of Art and Halifax School of Art. Also includes Derby School of Art Rules and Regulations, 1881.

Stubs showing receipts for subscription money paid to York School of Art. The volumes cover the following dates:
July 1851-1856;
1851-1854;
1854-1855;
December 1862-November 1869;
November 1863-October 1864;
December 1863-October 1865;
January 1866-December 1867;
November 1869;
February 1870-November 1874;
November 1874-November 1876;
January 1871-November 1875;
November 1876-October 1879;
October 1879-November 1882;
November 1882-October 1886;
October 1886-September 1890;
February 1890-July 1891;
February 1891-August 1891.

The vouchers relate to various accounts

One document in particular focuses on the shares of John Lund.

Contains information relating to the defendants' minute books about river tolls.

Contains information relating to the Railway and Traffic Acts 1854 to 1888. It was filed in 1899 and used in the matter of an application of Thomas Mills Fairweather againt the defendants including the Lord Mayor of York.

The extracts relate to the Railway and Canal Traffic Acts.

Contains information relating to extracts from the defendants Minute Books .

Contains information regarding bridges across Hungate and Cawood.

Contains information relating to an application of Mills Fairweather & Co.

rent payments, Labour charges, poor rate payment, and money to companies for their goods

Includes correspondence, notes and handbills relating to York Corporation's application for £4300 for the purchase of land and erection of buildings necessary for a fever hospital. Also includes papers for the ensuing Local Government Board enquiry.

Papers concerning a Grand Bazaar held 4-6 Oct 1864 at the Guildhall to raise funds for the Little Blake Street Improvement Fund. Includes lists of patrons; stalls; accounts; correspondence and posters

Correspondence regarding the York sewage system, memorial to local government, reports and memoranda concerning the scheme and amendments, memoranda from the medical officer and Mr Manserghs, reports concerning enquiries and the sub-soil of city, estimate

Correspondence regarding the Little Blake Street Improvement Committee; the opening up of the West Front of the Minster; and the extension of Freemasons' property.

Letters regarding property affected by the Little Blake Street Improvement plan.

Two copies of a report of the Public Lighting Committee appointed to consider the desirability of the Council providing gas for the public lighting of the city and to obtain estimates of the cost of new works for that purpose

Includes 3 Little Blake Street Improvement plans [1863, 1867 and no date]; Little Blake Street Improvement Committee, plan of the property [1938]; and additions to the Masonic Hall in Duncombe Place [no date, c1860s?]

Register of electors eligible to vote in parliamentary elections. Please note, these items are a duplicate set of registers - our full set of registers can be found in the Archives Reading Room. Two copies.

Register of electors eligible to vote in parliamentary elections. Please note, these items are a duplicate set of registers - our full set of registers can be found in the Archives Reading Room.

Includes weekly national returns or reported cases of cattle plague; the Inspector of Cattle's notebook of licenses; movement licenses; a public notice; and a printed copy of the Contagious Diseases (Animals) Act, 1869.

Comprises correspondence, printed regulations and recommendations of the Health (Meat Regulations) Sub-Committee. Also includes a letter dated 16 Jan 1865 regarding glue factories.

Register of electors eligible to vote in municipal elections. Please note, these items are a duplicate set of registers - our full set of registers can be found in the Archives Reading Room. Two copies.

Register of electors eligible to vote in parliamentary elections. Please note, these items are a duplicate set of registers - our full set of registers can be found in the Archives Reading Room. Two copies.

Comprises general papers and correspondence relating to the Local Board of Health and include: petitions regarding road alterations and works; inspection of housing; by-laws and public notices; letters regarding public health matters;

Register of electors eligible to vote in municipal elections. Please note, these items are a duplicate set of registers - our full set of registers can be found in the Archives Reading Room. Three copies.

Detailed drawing of Colonnade design and plan - Drawing type: Elevations, plans
Drawing number (if any):
Scale: 4 feet : 1 inch 1 inch : 4 feet
Size: Large
Names: City Surveyor's Office

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The case was brought to the Queen's Bench three times, and the defendants neglected to make provision for the flow of water running from the canal whereby the land of Hodgson was flooded leading to damage of £10. The defendants believe it was the responsi

The lots are in Bishophill and Gaol Lane.

Also includes details of a wedding gift for the Duke of York and Princess Victoria of Teck.

Register of electors eligible to vote in municipal elections. Please note, these items are a duplicate set of registers - our full set of registers can be found in the Archives Reading Room. Two copies.

Plan and section of bridge and approaches. Bound plans published for Parliament Session 1874-5 - Drawing type: plan and sections
Drawing number (if any): No number
Scale: 1.5 inch : 100 feet
Size: Large
Names: Johnson and Tesseyman, Lithographers, York.

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Comprises summary sheets of deaths from diarrhoea for York districts, York Union Workhouse, and totals for the city. Summary sheets for districts record total numbers of deaths as well as the name, address and occupation of individual cases.

Register of electors eligible to vote in municipal elections. Please note, these items are a duplicate set of registers - our full set of registers can be found in the Archives Reading Room. Two copies.

Register of electors eligible to vote in municipal elections. Please note, these items are a duplicate set of registers - our full set of registers can be found in the Archives Reading Room. Two copies.

The notice thanks the Lord Mayor for his attendance.

Printed copies of the provisional order for the Urban Sanitary Authority of York. Blank forms relating to the enactment of the order.

Register of electors eligible to vote in municipal elections. Please note, these items are a duplicate set of registers - our full set of registers can be found in the Archives Reading Room. Two copies.

Includes a letter written to the York Daily Herald by W.W. Morrell on October 12th 1876 regarding public libraries in York; a letter from J. Lubbock MP dated April 10th 1885 (newspaper unknown) on the benefits of reading and free libraries; an article in the Hull Eastern Morning News dated December 14th 1882 regarding the question of a proposed public library in Hull; an article in the Times dated October 10th 1898 regarding the opening of a new free library in Wandsworth by J. Lubbock MP; an article in the Hull Eastern Morning News dated December 18th 1882 regarding the results of a poll taken on the issue of a proposed free library in Hull; an undated article regarding the foundation of the "John Bright Room" in Birmingham by the Free Library Committee; n article in the Hull Eastern Morning News dated December 14th 1882 regarding the proposed free library in Hull; an undated article regarding the winding up of the Lever Street Permenant Benefit Building Society in Manchester; an undated article regarding the offer of a free library for Huddersfield.

Log book for Rufforth Undenominational School. The log book include information about school attendance, upkeep of the buildings, the absences of particular pupils and the names of those admitted to or leaving the school. In some cases the schoolmaster states why the pupil is leaving and where they are moving on to. The schoolmaster from January 1881-October 1882 was J. Thomas Conyers Robson; he returned to the school in April 1883 after an absence of 5 months, during which time James Whitworth was master.

Register of electors eligible to vote in parliamentary elections. Please note, these items are a duplicate set of registers - our full set of registers can be found in the Archives Reading Room. Two copies.

Includes 1 plan of area (Parish of St Mary Castlegate) with sections, with facing title sheet and backing sheet, and a Book of Reference containing the names of the owners or reputed owners, lessees or reputed lessees, and occupiers of houses, lands and other premises, which may be required for the above-mentioned proposed improvements - Drawing type: Plan and schedule
Drawing number (if any):
Scale: Horiz 1.5 inches : 100 feet, vertical 1/2 inch : 20 feet.
Size: Large
Names: No names indicated

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Contains three copies of plan, one of which includes hand written annotations - Drawing type: Site plan
Drawing number (if any):
Scale: 1 1/2 inches: 40 feet
Size: Small
Names: Thomas Humphries
Johnson &amp
Tesseyman, Lith. York.

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Photocopies of original plans. Date is that of original. - Drawing type: Plans and elevations
Drawing number (if any):
Scale: 10 feet: 1 inch
Size: Large
Names: No names indicated

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two copy plans from North Eastern Railway - Proposed bridge over Queens Street Crossing, sections and elevations, 1877, and Proposed widening works, footpath in reinforced concrete, [1909]
D7124 - details of amendment to reinforcement - elevation and section, 19 May 1954
D7119/4 - details of proposed roadworks and guardrails, 5th June 1954
two copies of Queen Street Bridge realignment - sections (no date [1970s])
York inner ring road stage 1 - general plan (no date) - Drawing type: general plan, sections, elevations, detail drawings.
Drawing number (if any): D7119/4, D7124
Scale: various
Size: Large
Names: Charles J Minter, Engineer and Surveyor
CRA, R.A. Mayo City Engineer and Surveyor

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21 plans of detailed drawing of bridge columns detailing how far the columns are out of plum [1970s]
PH28/506 - working plan of the bridge widening and ferro concrete construction, with a part elevation, 1909
group of plans on the construction and principal modifications to Queen Street Bridge - C/S/7552/2 - details of tiering arrangements, elevations [1970s], C/7419 - proposed ties and trestle arrangement to west parapet girder, elevation detail drawings, March 1971, C7118/1 - developed elevation of bridge strengthening wall, 4th June 1953, widening of bridge - ferro concrete construction, part of elevation [1909], North East Railway alterations to Queen Street Bridge - elevation, plan, detail of ferro-concrete slabs, washer plates and tapered packings, cross-section, elevation and plan of girders, cross section of pier and corner bedstones drawings., 3 June 1909, D/840 - tracing of LNER plan from 1877 of structural details - elevation and sections, andD/839 - tracing of LNER plan from 1877 - general plan. - Drawing type: general, elevation, cross section, detail drawing
Drawing number (if any): D/839, D/840, C/S/7552/2, C/7419, C/7118/1
Scale: Various
Size: Large
Names: Charles J Minter, Engineer and Surveyor, R.S. Bellhouse City Engineer and Surveyor, RAR, C.R.Arkinson.

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Register of electors eligible to vote in municipal elections. Please note, these items are a duplicate set of registers - our full set of registers can be found in the Archives Reading Room. Two copies.

Plans Showing arch alterations to Leeman road Bridge - Drawing type: Plan
Drawing number (if any):
Scale: No scale
Size: Medium
Names: None

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Details showing intended new streets and proposed street widenings. Shows Limit of Deviation and Parish Boundaries. - Drawing type: Plan and Sections
Drawing number (if any):
Scale: Vertical 1 inch: 20 feet, Horizontal 1 inch: 66.66 feet.
Size: Large
Names: Johnson and Tesseyman, Lith York, Geo. Styan, City Surveyor Guildhall York

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Details of proposed new streets and street widenings. Plan marked PH5/73 is blank. - Drawing type: Street plan and Sections
Drawing number (if any):
Scale: 1/800 (Horizontal scale), 1 inch: 20 feet (Vertical scale)
Size: Large
Names: George Styan, City Surveyor, Guildhall York

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Includes book of reference with list of reputed owners and occupiers, street layout and inclination of streets. Johnson &amp
Tesseyman, Lith. York - Drawing type: Street plan and sections
Drawing number (if any):
Scale: Horizontal scale 1 1/2 inch: 100 feet. Vertical scale 1/2 inch: 10 feet
Size: Large
Names: Geo Styan. City Surveyor, Guildhall York.

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Comprises the following reports: Medical Officer of Health's report on the inclusion of Acomb in York City Boundaries; Medical Officer of Health's report on Lodging Houses; Medical Officer of Health's report on precautions to be observed against Cholera; Return of numbers of notices served to do sanitary works; Medical Officer of Health's questionnaire on diarrhoea.

Contains details relevant to the daily tasks of the engineer. Provides details on fire events throughout these years.

Includes Book of Reference, plans and sections, original packaging - Drawing type: Plans
Drawing number (if any):
Scale: Vertical 1 inch to 20 Feet, Horizontal, 1 Inch to 75 Feet
Size: Large
Names: James Wilkinson's[?]

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Includes agreements between the Corporation of York and the 'Chalet Company' who provided the facilities.

Comprises details of individual cases of deaths from diarrhoea, total births and deaths for districts in York, and summary statistics for districts. Also includes notes taken from Dr Ballard's enquiry.

Programme of funeral procession.