Negatives of long shot of road and close-up of corner building.
One set of negatives of unknown buildings.
Four sets of negatives of unknown buildings.
Three sets of negatives of unknown buildings.
Photographs, slides and additional information relating to libraries in York - primarily City of York Council run libraries, but also including a small amount of information on York Minster Library, National Railway Museum Library and Archives and Naburn Hospital Library. The additional information includes details of opening hours, addresses and building styles.
Created by the Library History Group of the Library Association in response to a number of historic library buildings being demolished or repurposed in the 1990s. Whilst the initiative was originally supposed to be national in scope, funding for the project could not be secured, and the images and information collected were used in other displays and publications instead.
Includes:
First Corporation lawn mower purchased by York Corporation (with operator). Pictured in Rowntree Park, c.1920;
Long Marston bus driver John Stead, with passenger; 20th century;
William and Rebecca Hardcastle, c.1905;
William and Rebecca Hardcastle outside their house 'The Thatch, Long Marston'. c.1905;
Reverse of postcard addressed to Elizabeth Emmott, Green Hammerton, c.1905.
Includes original prints (pasted onto mounting boards) of:
- Micklegate Bar from within
- Micklegate Bar from without
- The Minster from the Bar Walls
- Tower at Lendal Ferry, west side
- Tower at Lendal Ferry, east side
- Bootham Bar from within
- Bootham
- Tower on the esplanade (Marygate landing)
- Tower at the corner of Marygate and Bootham
- Interior of the Multangular Tower
- Multangular Tower, Museum Gardens
- Monkgate Bar
- City Walls near Layerthorpe Bridge
- The Red Tower, Foss Islands
- City Walls between Walmgate Bar and The Red Tower
- Walmgate Bar from without
- Walmgate Bar from within
- Fishergate Bar with the Catholic Chapel in the distance
- Fishergate Postern
- Clifford's Tower
- Old Wharf, Skeldergate
- York Minster from Monk Bar
- York Minster, Eastern portion
- The Minster Transept from the south
- The Minster from the School of Design
- The Minster from Museum Street
- York Minster, West Doors
- York Minster, north transept
- The Chapter House from the Minster Gardens
- The Deanery
- The Minster Library, Minster Gardens
- Ruins of St Mary's Abbey, Museum Gardens
- Ruins of St Mary's Abbey, Museum Gardens
- Ruins of St Mary's Abbey, Museum Gardens
- Entrance to St Mary's Abbey, Marygate
- Hospitium of St Mary's Abbey, Museum Gardens
- The Chapter House, St Mary's Abbey
- St Leonard's Hospital from Museum Street
- St Leonard's Hospital from Museum Gardens
- Priory Gateway, Micklegate
- Remains of St George's Priory, St George's Field
- Church of St Olave and St Mary's Lodge, Marygate
- St Helen's Church, St Helen's Square
- Church of St Michael le Belfrey
- Trinity Church, Micklegate
- Porch of St Dennis Church, Walmgate
- Porch of St Margaret's Church, Walmgate
- Porch of St Lawrence Church, without Walmgate Bar
- Skelton Church
- Doorway of old Palace
- The Guildhall (river front)
- The Guildhall (entrance)
- St William's College, College Street
- Ancient Houses, Pavement
- Ancient Houses, Skeldergate
- King's Staith
- Ancient House, Clifton
- Archiepiscopal Palace, Bishopthorpe
- Porch of Heslington Hall
- Heslington Hall
The images all appear to have been taken around October 1852. Two copies.
Includes original prints (pasted onto mounting boards) of:
- Kirk Collection, Castle Museum
- Kirk Collection, Castle Museum
- The Hall, Grays Court
- Holy Trinity Church, Goodramgate
- Kirk Collection, Castle Museum
- The Minster and the City Walls
- Stonegate
- The Minster and Petergate
- Minster Court
- Snuffer, High Petergate
11 The Minster and Treasurer's House - St Mary's Abbey
- Courtyard, Gray's Court
- St Michael le Belfrey
- High Petergate
- St Olave's Church
- Minster Cafe
- Prisoner's Inscription, York Castle Museum
- The Gallery, Gray's Court
- Gray's Court
- Jubbergate
- Minster Cafe
- Drawing Room. Grays Court
- Gallery, Grays Court
- The Minster and Bootham Bar
Black and white print, donated in March 1999. 3 copies, including two larger reproduction.
Most of the images are unidentified. Images are in colour, and do include St John's car park with Waverley Street on the left and Garden Street on the right, and the Bull Lane flats.
Reproduction images of the works, including some photographic prints from Aerofilms.
Black and white prints pasted onto paper.
Colour prints of city streets.
The photographs were originally taken by someone from Sheffield who worked on pub refurbishments, They were then donated to Sheffield City Council, who transferred them to York City Council reference library (date of transfer unknown).
Black and white group photographs taken outside the City Art Gallery.
Both articles are taken from the Illustrated London News.
The negatives were taken by David Whiteley of University of York.
Includes one showing the interior of a York Corporation tram, and the second image showing the exterior of a tram with a female tram driver. The tram in the second picture is running line to High Ousegate. Both images are held in the same mount.
The images are all colour, and have been printed at A4 size and laminated. Includes Barbican Swimming Baths, Barbican Centre, Bonding Warehouse, Exhibition Square, Duncombe Place, Fire Station (Clifford Street), Garfield Terrace, Salvation Army (Gillygate), 'Bullnose Building' Leeman Road, Leeman Road District War Memorial, Piccadilly, Rowntrees Wharfe, Ryedale Building, Saxby House, Saint Barnabas School, Saint Crux, Saint Helen's Square, Saint Michael le Belfrey, Saint William's College, Woods Mill, York Sugar Factory and Yorkshire Museum.
35mm colour slides of mountaineering and climbing.
35mm colour slides of mountaineering and climbing.
35mm colour slides of mountaineering and climbing.
35mm colour slides of mountaineering and climbing.
35mm colour slides of mountaineering and climbing.
35mm colour slides of mountaineering and climbing.
35mm colour slides of mountaineering and climbing.
35mm colour slides of mountaineering and climbing.
35mm colour slides of mountaineering and climbing.
35mm colour slides of mountaineering and climbing.
35mm colour slides of mountaineering and climbing.
35mm colour slides of mountaineering and climbing.
35mm colour slides of the City of York, as well as some of Pateley Bridge, Harrogate and Knaresborough. Subjects include York Museum Gardens, the River Ouse frozen in 1963, street scenes (Lendal, Rowntree factory, Tanners Moat, Wellington Row, Blossom Street, Bootham, Micklegate, Piccadilly, Goodramgate), the marriage of Katherine Worsley to the Duke of Kent at York Minster (1961) and stage sets for the York Mystery Plays, c.1962.
Yorkshire Post print, annotated as Floods 1982 (Jan).
Yorkshire Post print, annotated as Floods 1982 (Jan).
Black and white photograph and research sheet. Copyright Northern Echo.
Cromwell House on the right, was occupied by the Bedern Mission. The house was probably built around 1700, but incorporated the timber framing from an earlier building. The house has an unusual design featuring a prominent pedimental gable.
Includes photographs of damage to buildings in 1915 in Nunthorpe Road, Caroline Street, Price Street, Kyme Street and Bishophill. Also includes a photograph of soldiers on Knavesmire Road going to war, 1914.
Black and white photographs of plans by Dr William White showing the streets of York as they were in January 1782.
Royal Commission on Historical Monuments. Copyright YAYAS .
These photographs are copies of maps found in WHI/2.
Includes small prints and two CDs. One CD is labelled 'Hob Moor Map'.
PLEASE NOTE THAT WE ARE CURRENTLY UNABLE TO PROVIDE ACCESS TO THE CDS.
Includes black and white images of the Shambles, York Minster West Front, and the Minster from the Bar Walls. This item is currently missing.