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Includes one volume containing sketches and coloured drawings of curios, antiques and other historical objects, owned, sold, or seen by the Loadman family. Drawings in the volume were made by E [Eugene] Loadman and HM [Herbert Myers] Loadman.

A volume of sketches and coloured drawings made over a period of 60 years showing items purchased by the Loadman family, as well as antiques, museum items, and archaeological finds located elsewhere. Some of the items are labelled in the volume as being in the Yorkshire Museum. The volume includes a drawing of the shops at 5 College Street, 37 Stonegate and Minster Gates which were run by the Loadman family.

The volume was probably begun in the 1890s and continued until the 1950s.

Text from the title page reads: ‘Our Cureo Book. This book consists of sketches of some of the many articles purchased during a period of over sixty years by the Loadman family of York, dealers in curios. Sketches by E. Loadman and H.M. Loadman’.

Also includes: a copy of the City of York and District Family History Society journal, dated June 2013 with notes and annotations about the Loadman family on p. 41; two printed off sheets containing information from the Ancestry and Find My Past websites with information about Thomas Loadman; and a typed copy of a census return for the Loadman family at 37 Stonegate, York, in 1901.