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ALT Black and white photograph looking up at the front of a classical-style building, illuminated at night. The elevation is rusticated and has a portico with a pediment supported with pairs of columns.
ALT A black and white photograph of a church baptismal font. The font is covered with intricate carved designs including human figures, rope and Celtic knots. The font stands on a circular stone platform of two tiers. The lid of the font is domed and made of dark wood. In the background is a wooden stand on the left and a bench on the right.
ALT Corner building with 56 iron-framed oriel windows projecting "like so many faceted glass bubbles"--nice to have a brightly lit desk in such a window area! It has a decorative, pinnacled and gabled roofline.
ALT A law student has drawn a monk pointing with his left hand at an important line in this legal manuscript. The monk has a tonsure and has been drawn standing slightly side on to the right hand column of text. The artist has only drawn his head and torso in brown ink.
ALT People gather around a delivery truck as goods are being unloaded near a Midland Red bus stop, captured in a black and white historical photo. People are queueing to buy their rationed foods.
ALT Did You Know - Richard Cromwell was Oxford University Chancellor from 1657-1660). From our collections a Letters Patent directed to him from the same period.
ALT A medieval map of Scotland.
ALT Compilation of illustrated scenes depicting the Whitechapel murders, featuring detailed Victorian-era artistic representations of various crime scenes with investigators and bystanders.
ALT Black and white oblique aerial photograph looking down on a river in a city. Three bridges can be seen spanning the river. The bridge in the centre of the photograph includes a huge, single-span arch.