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Found 2003 objects in the category Social History
Bill head
original trial proof for a bill head for 'John James, Saddler and Ironmonger and Coach and Harness Manufacturer, Penzance'. Embossed onto card. Engraved by Vibert.
PEZPH : 1987.82
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Billhead
Bill head for Dunkin and James, Saddle and harness manufacturers, Penzance. Bill also states that philosophical instruments made and repaired. Dunkin was originally a saddler and became an instrument maker.
PEZPH : 1976.536.2
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Bill head
bill head for John James, Saddler and Ironmonger and Coach and Harness Manufacturer, Penzance. Engraved by Vibert. Stuck onto folded red paper.
PEZPH : 1976.536.3
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Bill head
bill head for John James, Saddler and Ironmonger and Coach and Harness Manufacturer, Penzance. Engraved by Vibert. Stuck onto folded red paper.
PEZPH : 1976.536.1
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Bill of exchange
Bill of exchange for the Bank of Victoria
PEZPH : 1987.50
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Bill of exchange
a bill of exchange for the Bank of Victoria
PEZPH : 1987.5.1-2
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Biography and family history of Joseph H Pollard
A typewritten document giving a biography and family history of Joseph H. Pollard, a Cornish bookseller. Part of it is a copy taken from the Pollard Parish Register. His younger sister Elizabeth Jane Pollard (b. 1865) married John Branwell of Penlee. Recorded on one side of two yellow A4 pieces of paper.
PEZPH : 1991.167
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Black and white photograph
Two little girls with shrimp nets at a rock pool at Porthcurno
PEZPH : 1990.1101
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Black and white photograph
The Lady of the Isles aground at Lamorna in the summer of 1903
PEZPH : 1990.974
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Black and white photograph
Market Cross outside Market House
PEZPH : 1989.1121
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Black and white photograph
Market Cross outside Market House
PEZPH : 1989.1120
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Blank bank cheque
Blank cheque from the Cornish Bank limited. Black copper plate script on white
PEZPH : 1976.461
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Blank mourning letter embossed with the stamp of the Guardians of the Penzance Union
embossed white paper in the form of a unused mourning letter, with black edging. There are two embossed stamps, one at the bottom and one to the top 'The Guardians of the Penzance Union in the County of Cornwall'.
PEZPH : 1989.242
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