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A Catalogue of Commerce and Art: Bisset’s Magnificent Guide for Birmingham, 1808
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Advert for Martin Billing, Letter-Press, Lithographic and Copper-Plate Printer
The New Illustrated Directory Entitled Men and Things of Modern England, 1858
Advert for The White Hart Hotel, Birmingham
The New Illustrated Directory Entitled Men and Things of Modern England, 1858
Advert for Woolpack Hotel, Family and Commercial Inn, Warwick
The New Illustrated Directory Entitled Men and Things of Modern England, 1858
Advertisement: Kendall and Son, Perfumers, Cabinet Case Makers, and Importers of Foreign Fancy Merchandise, London
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Advertisement: Radclyffes and Co, General Printers and Stationers, Birmingham
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Adverts for John Yates & Sons, Birmingham
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Answer to Dardanus’s
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Aris’s Birmingham Gazette – Advert for Revolutionary Dinner
Hotel, Birmingham, July, 1791. Commemoration of the French Revolution. A Number of Gentlemen intend DINING together on… read more »
Aris’s Birmingham Gazette – Advert for transport between Birmingham and London
Safe and Elegant TRAVELLING. Hotel and Swan Inn, Birmingham. Paytons’s Old Original well-known LONDON POST-COACH, in Sixteen Hours… read more »
Aris’s Birmingham Gazette – Employment Advert
WANTED in a Gentleman’s Family, near Birmingham, immediately, or at Michaelmas next, a sober industrious Woman Servant;… read more »
Bankers and Public Companies in Birmingham
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Benjamin Richardson, Flint Glass Manufacturer, Stourbridge
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Birmingham
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Birmingham
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Birmingham
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Birmingham Fire Office
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C.P. Swinburn & Son, Gun, Rifle and Pistol Manufacturers, Birmingham
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Carpenter and Tildesley, Patent Lock and Curry Comb Manufacturers, Willenhall
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English Hotel Guide
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F & C Osler, Glass Chandlier & Table Glass Manufacturers, Birmingham
The New Illustrated Directory Entitled Men and Things of Modern England, 1858 Plate Glass is made in… read more »
Frontispiece to Bisset’s Magnificent Directory
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Hollis and Sheath, Gun-Makers, Birmingham
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Inland Navigation, An Ode. Humbly Inscribed to The Inhabitants of Birmingham, And Proprietors of the Canal
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Interior of Britannia Railway Carriage and Wagon Works
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John Taylor and Matthew Boulton
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John Yates & Sons, Patent Electro Plate Works, Birmingham
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Joseph Gillott, Metallic Pen Maker, Birmingham
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Labour and Genius: or, the Mill-stream, and the Cascade. A Fable
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Lloyd and Summerfield, Park Glass Works, Birmingham
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Metal Rolling
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Metallic Bedsteads
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Needle Making
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Plan of Birmingham, drawn by J. Sherrif of Oldswinford, late of the Crescent Birmingham
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Prime and Sons, Magneto Plate Works, Birmingham
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R. F. Sturges, Manufacturer of Electro Silver Plated Wares, Birmingham
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Rope Making and Bewdley
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Russian Military Visitors
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Stock & Son, Glass and Lead Merchants, Birmingham
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The First Manufacturing Town: Industry in Birmingham in the mid-19th Century, The New Illustrated Directory, 1858
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The Kidderminster Carpet Industry and the Wider World
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The Manufactures of Birmingham and Sheffield
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Thomas Felton, Glassware Manufacturer, Birmingham
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Tipping and Lawden, Gun & Pistol Manufacturers, Birmingham
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W. Standley, Spur Manufacturer, Walsall
The New Illustrated Directory Entitled Men and Things of Modern England, 1858
William Middlemore, Wholesale Sadler, Harness Maker, Currier, Birmingham
The New Illustrated Directory Entitled Men and Things of Modern England, 1858
William Spurrier, Electro Silver Plate Manufacturer, Birmingham
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William Spurrier, Electro Steel Plate Manufacturer, Birmingham
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