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No sign of in our collections but we've got prancing deer instead. This chromolithograph by Maurice Pillard Verneuil comes from L'animal dans la decoration (The animal in decoration), 1897 https://t.co/7ujWpODiL7

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2020-12-19

In 1917 Vesta Tilley (Worcester born Music Hall star) gave a Grafonola (record player) and records of her singing, as a Christmas present to a Military Hospital. They sent this letter of thanks to her, which we kept in her scrapbook

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2020-12-17

It's that time of year when we yearn to sit snuggled up by a warm fire - this 1830 painting by Carthusian pupil, W D Douglas, features a nice toasty-looking fire in the old Gownboys boarding house at don.

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2020-12-07

We love this evocative 1930s photograph of nurses carol singing (?) by lamplight on the Grand Staircase in the North Wing of !

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2020-12-05

We've opened our 2019 in a flurry to find this snowy view over Voe of Dale with Shetland ponies

Painted by Muriel Helen Dawson, her inscription reads '1st week Dec '61 from the porch'

This collection was bequeathed
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2019-12-01

A very cute delivery from Cordelia Oliver in this card from the 1950s. Image courtesy of the Cordelia and George Oliver Archive (DC 066/3/2/2/2)

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2018-12-05