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Reproduction of both halves of an indenture contract between John Brown and William Smith.

Reproduction from a book: parts of two stained glass windows, one depicting the Last Supper(?), the other depicting two male and one female figures at prayer (donor window?).

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

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.

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 '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.

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 '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.

Includes loose letters relating to the Journal, receipts for the journal, a log of work carried out and payments received regarding the Journal.

Exercise book containing additional handwritten notes and newspaper cuttings about Lord Mayors of York not found in KNO/6/2 and KNO/6/3. The volume was originally entitled 'F J Smart: English and French' and the reverse of the book contains what appears to be school French homework.

The volume contains handwritten notes and newspaper cuttings compiled by J W Knowles about the history of Kings Square, Colliergate, Walmgate, Petergate and High Petergate. Information is arranged by street.

Includes accounts of postage costs and a numbered list of photographic details.

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.

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

Glass plate negative of York Minster from the outside, taken from the south east.

Head of Christ, with crown of thorns.

Image of stained glass window showing four lights each depicting a saint (one of 12 prophets?). Medieval.

Four prophets.

Stained glass window from St Mary's Fairford - four lights depicting four of the twelve prophets (Joel, Zephaniah, Amos, Hosea).

Part of the West window from St Mary's Fairford, showing the Last Judgement with souls being led to Heaven & Hell.

Some of the plates are particularly badly damaged and will require conservation. Originally held in a box marked 'Knowles Wooden box plates 28.'

The card consists of a hand-coloured front designed by J W Knowles, and a rotating disk at the back featuring photographs of the entire family. The rear disk could be rotated depending on which family member's birthday it was.

Circular panel of stained glass showing a man with an axe about to kill an ox, whilst another person holds its head and horns. Marked as a Flemish roundel.

Showing the sea catching fire and running dry, two panels from the Prik of Conscience window.

Stained glass window in All Saints North Street, York, depicting events from 'The Pricke of Conscience'. Medieval.

One plate with six images of stained glass panels, showing figures repeatedly used in Parker window, Wolveden Window, Bolton Percy Window. Headed 'Cartoons used several times over'.

Richly dressed bearded figure with crown (just visible) holding staff and book. Medieval.

Reproduction from a book, depicting one drawing of a window with St Paul, and one drawn design for a window of St Paul. Similar compositons, especially positions of hands, in both.

Includes tracing paper drawings, handwritten remarks and newspaper cuttings. Also includes letters from Canon Fowler of Durham to J W Knowles about the window's restoration.

Labelled 'Fireplace in St Georges Hall Castlegate York'. Later called Fairfax House. Glass plate negative.

Moderately faded image, showing part of a stained glass window, subject unclear.

Five images taken from separate German works.

Reproduction from Browne's History of York Minster, showing a line drawing of one of the five lights in the North Transept (stained glass with vine and leaf design).

Habbakuk feeding Daniel in the lion's den: Norman glass in the base of the window. On acetate.

From Browne's History of the Cathedral Church of York. Vol ii Plate LXVII. Image of part of the Five Sisters window, showing a floral/vine pattern.

Celuloid negative depicting a circular stained glass design of a man and woman 'arm in arm' with a goat. Probably in Broughton Hall, Staffs.

Circular stained glass window showing a bishop wearing mitre and chasuble over armour, with staff in one hand, sword and shield (with coat of arms) in the other. There is a chateau or castle in the background.

Circular stained glass depicting Mary, Joseph, baby Jesus and donkey, on the road. Early 16th century original design showing the Flight into Egypt, in the possession of Wilfred Drake [the Fall of the Idols on the Arrival of the Holy Family in Ejypt].

Shows coat of arms and part of an inscription, which names Susan Beilby (d. 1664) as the wife of William Beilby of 'Miclethwait Graing'. Glass plate negative.

For W H Shilling Esq.

Photo of metal ewer, with water and cross of Cuthbert(?) design on side.

Photo of metal ewer with waves and Cuthbert/Celtic cross(?) design on side.

Photo of metal font ewer with ornate, double handled design.

One plate with two images - circular stained glass, 1) a ship at sea with figures struggling in water (the Ark?) 2) figures on horseback outside city.

One path is framed by neat hedgerows. The other path is framed by trees. Glass plate negative.

Labelled 'Foundation Merchants Hall York'. Glass plate negative.

The original envelope was also marked 'Miss Harwood.' Originally held in a box marked 'Knowles Wooden box plates 28.'

One plate with four images of stained glass window panels featuring figures at St William shrine. Plate headed 'Four Different Subjects Got From Two Cartoons'. Captioned: A. Panel 48. cures by holy oil exuding from shrine. B. Panel 62. Blind and crippled

Upper part of the lights show figures at prayer.

Blurred photo of a portion of stained glass showing figure kneeling before a bishop(?).

Blurred photo of upper portion of stained glass window.

From Lasteyrie, Hist. de la peinture sur verre . See also quarter plate negatives for other examples. Reproduction from the book showing a circular stained glass image of fox wearing cloak standing in pulpit, preaching to cockerel, hens and chicks. Captio

(From the Luttrell Psalter). Reproduction from a book (page 94), plate with four images (one obscured): two two-headed dragons with necks entwined; a fox preaching to various birds; a woman chasing a fox with a distaff as the fox runs away with a bird in

From Chaucer's Priests Tale.

Labelled 'Frieze in School for the Blind York'. Print of frieze and site map of the School for the Blind (King's Manor). Above the etching: 'Yorkshire Philosophical Society Museum'. At the centre: 'Frieze in Lord Huntingdon's Room'. Site map includes: The King's Cellar; Remains of the Palace of King Henry VIII; Boy's Playground; Shed; Boy's Basket Room; Boy's Day Room; Pupil Dining Room; Manor; and Classroom. Glass plate negative.

Reverend Deane, Harswell.

For Dr Crawford Treasure, Cardiff.

Reverend Deane, Harswell.

Labelled 'Gable of St Andrews Church York'. Street view including cobbled street and pavement. Glass plate negative.

Reproduction of image of 'Henry Gyles of the City of York', offering 'Glas painting for windows' etc (late 17th c?).

Reproduction from Westlake's History of Design in Painted Glass vol iv Plate xxiv - window in Henry VII chapel by Barnard Flower.

Glass plate negative depicting stained glass coat of arms of the Merchant Taylors, captioned 'The guift of Simon Buckton, Marchant Taylor, AD 1662'.

Two stained glass panels, showing a coat of arms and a figure in an ornate horse-drawn carriage. 18th century.

Coat of arms in stained glass, with crossed keys and a bishop's mitre.

Stained glass window with a coat of arms (sheep, shells, cockerels).

Photo of a corroded section of stained glass and leading, and a corroded iron bar (see also KNO/24/349).

Glass plate negative showing an image of several fragments of corroded glass with various patterns on.

Glass plate negative depicting photo of 20 chips of decorated, corroded glass.

Reproduction from Weale's Quarterley (dated October 1st 1843) showing the scale drawings of two windows from All Saints North Street: John the Baptist and St Christopher carrying the Christ Child.

Image of stained glass panel depicting pieta with seven swords piercing Mary's heart. Early modern?

The glass was formerly in the St Cuthbert window. From drawings by John W Knowles.

Image of three sections of stained glass window (one of an oak leaf?) each marked with T. Caption: '[mar]ked with a T in order to show to which light it belonged when mixed with others'.

Reproduction of four newspaper adverts for stained glass exhibitions, with handwritten dates added to each; Mr Pearson (1790), 'The late Mr & Mrs Pearson' (1838), Mr Backler's notice of postponement of exhibition ( Sept 1830), Mr Backler's exhibition of

Reproduction of six contracts for windows, 1445-1450, undertaken by John Pruddle of Westminster. Plus caption.

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.

Several sections of stained glass windows, showing borders made up from odd pieces and angels visiting saints. Unclear if 'chronological order,' or if all part of same window.

Design for two lights of a stained glass window - personifications of Victory (a male soldier-angel) and Peace (a female angel holding a dove and a sheave of wheat).