Items

• A New and General Map of the Southern Dominions Belonging to the United States of America
• Petition from Manufacturers and Merchants of Manchester against the Foreign Slave Trade Abolition Bill
• Meeting minutes for Owens College with hand-drawn plan
• Manchester Society for the Promotion of Natural History minute book
• Image from Illustrations of Cross Street Chapel
• Photograph of the Manchester Mechanics’ Institution on Princess Street, Manchester
• Letter containing invoice from Gourdin, Matthiessen and Co., Charleston, South Carolina
• Letter from John Speakman & Co., of Savannah to McConnel & Kennedy
• Letter from B. H. Green to McConnel & Kennedy
• Printed memorandum concerning the will of Sir Joseph Whitworth
• The London Missionary Society's report of the proceedings against the late Rev. J. Smith, of Demerara
• Insurrections of slaves in the West Indies : St. Lucia-Trinidad-Dominica-Jamaica-Demerara
• Owens College building plans
• Personal receipt from John Owens’ accounts
• Letter from John Owens’ solicitor, Barlow J. Aston
• Twelve years a slave: narrative of Solomon Northup
• The interesting narrative of the life of Olaudah Equiano
• Minute book for the Manchester Mechanics’ Institution
• Invoice from Owen Owens & Son
• Letter from Speakman
• 'Tale of King Florus and the fair Jehane' with binding by Takebei Taki Saburo
• Shāhnāmah (Book of Kings)
• Contents of the Manchester Museum of Natural History
• Plan of Whitworth Park
• Meeting minutes from Dec. 28th 1867 discussing Murray Gladstone's donation of a plot of land.
• Photograph of Owens College
• Plan for McConnel and Kennedy factory from 'Plans of all the Spinning Factories within the township of Manchester'
• An account of the cost of land and building for the Manchester Mechanics Institution
• List of life members from Manchester Mechanics Institution annual report
• A directory for the towns of Manchester and Salford, for the year 1788
• Table of voyages by slave ships
• Map of St Ann’s Ward
• Photograph showing the original site of Owens College on Quay Street, Manchester
• 1824 Minute Book including details of original rules of institution and founding meeting