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4. Astronomy and print
A Sea of Symbols
Captain George Pechell Mends (circa 1814 – 1871)
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Lieutenant Gabriel Bray (1750–1823)
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1 part marked and photographed by Nat, Jan 2018
A group photograph showing bishops at the Lambeth Conference of 1888
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Born digital map
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building: unidentified
data processing t&e: telescope component: photographic equipment
documentary artifact: indenture, apprentice's
documentary artifact: parish register
documentary artifact: photograph
documentary artifact: photograph: daguerrotype
documentary artifact: photographic reproduction
documentary artifact: poster, packet
documentary artifact: telescope component: plate, photographic
electrical & magnetic t&e: magnetograph, photographic(recording apparatus)
exchange medium: guinea
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Marine chronometer
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Studio photograph of a South Asian woman, probably an ayah, with a European child
surveying & navigational t&e: card, compass
surveying & navigational t&e: card, compass (liquid)
surveying & navigational t&e: compass, azimuth
surveying & navigational t&e: compass, insulated
surveying & navigational t&e: compass, steering
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water transport: cargo vessel
water transport: fighting vessel: battleship
water transport: fighting vessel: chapel
water transport: fighting vessel: messdeck, seaman's
water transport: fighting vessel: sick bay
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Admiralty Compass Observatory
Autotype Co. Ltd
Collier, John
Dean, Tacita
Dighton, Robert
Eastham, Silas
Fairweather, [John?]
Flett, Peter
Gibson & Sons of Scilly
Harrison, F.
Harrods Ltd
Hart, Alexandra
Hill, Henry Oliver
Lacey
O'Rorke, Brian
Stuart, Michelle
Tarsoudis, George
Thring, E. J.
Turner, Charles Edward
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W. F. Stanley & Co Ltd
Wright & Logan
Yera, H
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Napoleonic Wars: Battle of Trafalgar, 1805
Third Anglo-Dutch War: Battle of Solebay, 1672
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Dz 2480 (Fl.1929)
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Kathleen & May (1900)
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Bond, R H A
Brooks, Victor Edwin Abraham
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Elwey, Thomas
Emperor Shōwa of Japan
Essen, O V von
Froude, William
HM Dockyard, Chatham
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Nelson, Horatio
Port Line Ltd
Royal Greenwich Observatory
Russell, Charles James
Science Museum Group
Thomson, William
Thurlow, Albert
Tyser, Walter Parkyns
VII, King Edward
Vinrace, William
Wells, Thomas
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War vessels built by Palmers Shipbuilding & Iron Co. Ltd., Jarrow on Tyne, from 1885 to 1909. (photograph album)
Plans and photographs of early Thornycroft 70' Motor Torpedo Boats (plans and photographs)
'Port Launceston' (Photographic reproduction)
Ebenezer Wood (Glass Photograph)
Framed photograph of HMS Britannia (Framed photograph)
Photograph
Training ship photograph (Photograph)
Training ship photograph (Photograph)
Chapel HMS Hood postcard (Photograph)
Two Brothers (no date) (Technical record)
The White Horse Knight photographic reproduction (Photographic reproduction)
The Splendid Frigate-built ship 'Stratheden' (Photographic reproduction)
Photograph mounted in a circular wooden frame, Rodney Hastings John Munday (Photograph)
photograph
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Ripples in a Pond (Born digital photograph)
Best of the Craters (Born digital photograph)
Royal Daffodil (1939) (Postcard)
Photographic print of Anaeas Mackintosh (d1916) during his career within P & O. (print, photographic)
Frame of an unidentified ship being repaired in dry-dock (photographic print)
The Norwegian ship 'Hansy' wrecked on Penolver Point, Lizard, Cornwall (photographic print)
Wrecked 'Sophie' (photographic print)
The ship 'Plympton', wrecked off St Agnes, Isles of Scilly (photographic print)
Framed photographs of 7 Cunard ships (Photograph)
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