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Today's #Archive30 theme is #FavouriteItem. We have so many but it is difficult to beat these watercolour views of Brunel's South Devon atmospheric railway under construction by William Dawson. Each page shows the line with views as seen on each side.
We could go on! But to finish, I'll leave you with this wonderful #Japanese volume of pattern designs featuring crane birds 🪶🪶
Tennen hyakkaku (天年百寉): https://t.co/BvxJe72aNM #BLJapanese #FavouriteItem #Archive30
Who doesn't love knitwear and dogs? Here's Leon Trotsky in a fine sweater with his adoring pooch. We've got other revolutionary sources including a note he wrote to his friend Tom Mann - find all these and more here: https://t.co/Trrqm2BZQy #Archive30 #FavouriteItem
#17thcentury #physician Edward Tyson was hot on #ComparativeAnatomy. This book of his notes and drawings, containing human and animal life in all its splendour, is a definite contender for #FavouriteItem. #Archive30 #histmed
Our #FavouriteItem is the Anvār-i Suhaylī (1570)
This beautiful manuscript is recognized as one of the masterpieces of early Mughal painting #Archive30
https://t.co/hkRMEXzfFa
#Archive30 Day 2 #FavouriteItem . How to choose, we have so many? How about these watercolour images from William Lloyd's diaries https://t.co/c4JT2e4ZDu
Another #FavouriteItem is this delicately drawn lady. She’s from a sketchbook with drawings and paintings by various #gsa students from around a century ago, including Elizabeth Mary Watt @ARAScot #Archive30 NMC/1528 https://t.co/htMpXNL06A
Training to be an anchorite c1920s.
Our #favouriteitem , the witty poems and cartoons by former St Paul's college student William A Freeman. #archive30
This #digitised 16th-century Greek manuscript features a wide range of animal illustrations. Which one is your favourite? #FavouriteItem #Archive30
https://t.co/AA9ljTQyyw (Burney MS 97)
#Archive30 day 2! Our #FavouriteItem changes daily (sometimes hourly), but the current fave is this interloper's eye view of Bermondsey boxmakers in 1909 (complete with ranks of glaring women solderers)
You can find out more about the image at https://t.co/OECL2PheWE
It's always hard to pick a favourite but we do appreciate a good map. This is a map of Harpsden dated 1586 - we love the extra details of the boat and swans on the river Thames. #Archive30 #FavouriteItem