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- Augusta Hall (Lady Llanover) (1802-96)
- Cardigan port
- Aberfan Colliery Disaster, 1966
- Adelina Patti (1843-1919), opera singer
- Aerial photographs of coal mines and workings
- Aerial photographs of copper mines and works
- Aerial photographs of gold mines
- Aerial photographs of ironworks and iron mines
- Aerial photographs of lead mines
- Aerial photographs of slate quarries
- Aerial photographs of Welsh cities, towns and villages
- American Civil War letters, 1862-64
- Andrew Logan Museum of Sculpture, Berriew
- Archie Cochrane (1909-88), medical pioneer
- Artefacts from the Roman fort of Canovium, Caerhun
- Big Pit, Blaenavon
- Bodrhyddan Hall, Dyserth
- Bronze Bell Wreck Collection
- Broughton Hall, Worthenbury
- Bryn Iorcyn, Caergwrle
- Bryn-y-Pys, Overton
- Buckley Pottery
- Buildings at the Museum of Welsh Life, St Fagans
- Butter-making equipment
- Cae'r Berllan, Llanrwst
- Cardiff Air Raid Warden, 1939-45
- Cardiff Arms Park, 1997
- Cardiff City FC, winners of the 1927 FA Cup
- Cardiganshire Militia Uniforms
- Cartoons of Welsh Rugby players by Dorrien
- Carved stone figures from Llanfair-ar-y-bryn Church, Llandovery
- Castell Collen Roman Fort
- Castell Henllys Iron Age Fort
- Castles of Edward I
- Castles of the Welsh Princes, c. 1083-1283
- Cefn y Coed Isaf, Eglwys-bach
- Census of Beaumaris, 1821
- Centre for Alternative Technology
- Chapel and trade union banners (Cynon Valley Museum)
- Charles Rolls (1877-1910), motoring and aviation pioneer
- Chartist Trial Records, Newport, 1839-40
- Child indentures or apprenticeships
- Clio, Industrial Training Ship, 1877-1920
- Clwyd Fine Arts Trust collection (Bodelwyddan Castle)
- Cockfighting prints, 19th century
- Coed Coch, Betws-yn-Rhos
- Coed-y-Celyn, Betws-y-coed
- Construction of the Newport Transporter Bridge, 1902-06
- Coygan Cave, Carmarthenshire
- Crawshay Family of Cyfarthfa, Merthyr Tydfil
- Cymdeithas yr Iaith Gymraeg's first protest, 1963
- Daniel Owen (1836-95), novelist
- Decorative knitting sheaths (Brecknock Museum & Art Gallery)
- Denbighshire Fire Brigade, 1953
- Diaries of William Bulkeley, Llanfechell, Anglesey, 1734-60
- Diaries of William Searell of Beddgelert, 1844-6
- Diary of Rev. R. Peris Williams, army chaplain, 1914-16
- Dolgellau Fair, April 1956
- Dolgellau Folk Festival, 25 July 1952
- Downing Hall, Whitford
- Dr William Price (1800-93), pioneer of cremations
- Drawings by the naive painter known as 'A Welsh Primitif'
- Drawings of Newport by Falcon D. Hildred, 1988
- Ebbw Vale steelworks and the Garden Festival of Wales, 1992
- Eisteddfod Purses
- Embroidered wall hangings from Bryncunallt, Chirk, c. 1710-20
- Engravings by Henry Gastineau (1791-1876)
- Faenol Fawr, Bodelwyddan
- Fferm, Hope
- Filming 'The Inn of the Sixth Happiness', Beddgelert, 1958
- First World War diary of Thomas Richard Owen, 1918
- First World War postcard album
- Forden Workhouse
- Francis Lucas, plumber, glazier, painter from Montgomery
- Garden Festival of Wales, Ebbw Vale, 1992
- Garth Hall, near Welshpool
- Geological areas of Wales
- Geology - collectors and curators
- Geology - the Cambrian Period
- Geology - the Carboniferous Period
- Geology - the Cretaceous Period
- Geology - the Devonian Period
- Geology - the Jurassic Period
- Geology - the Ordovician Period
- Geology - the Proterozoic Era
- Geology - the Quaternary Period
- Geology - the Silurian Period
- Geology - the Triassic Period
- Glaniad website
- Glyn, Old Colwyn
- Grave goods buried in Welshpool, c. 150-200 AD
- Gresford Colliery Disaster, 1934
- Griffith Rhys Jones (Caradog, 1834-97)
- Gwern Hywel Ganol, Tir Ifan, Ysbyty Ifan
- H. M. Stanley (1841-1904), explorer and journalist
- Hafodunos Hall, Llangernyw
- Halghton Hall
- Hawarden Castle
- Hedd Wyn (1887-1917), First World War poet
- Henblas, Llanasa
- HMS Conway, school ship
- HMS Tara, 1915-16
- Horse Carriage Pattern Books, c. 1900
- Houses of Breconshire (Brecknock Museum & Art Gallery)
- Investitures of the Princes of Wales, 1911 and 1969
- Island Farm POW camp, Bridgend, 1939-45
- J. Hutchings and sons, taxidermists of Aberystwyth
- James Brothers of Clynderwen: aviation pioneers, 1913
- John Cornwell Collection of Coal Mining Photographs
- John Hughes and the iron town of Hughesovka, Imperial Russia
- John Roberts (1816-94), harpist and the Triple Harp
- John Thomas photographic collection (National Library of Wales)
- Joseph Edwards (1814-82), sculptor
- Joseph Parry (1841-1903), composer and musician
- Judge's Lodging, Presteigne
- Leeswood Hall
- Letters and photographs of two First World War soldiers from Pembrokeshire
- Letters concerning an anti-Cornish dispute at Mona Mine, 1863
- Letters from Anglesey sea captains, 1860-8
- Letters from Florence Nightingale to William Rathbone MP, 1882-3
- Letters from Humphrey Jones, apprentice chemist from Llangollen, 1850-58
- Letters from John and Charles Wesley, c. 1740-50s
- Letters from Welsh emigrants in Australia and America, 1850-61
- Letters regarding the anti-Irish riots at Penmaen-mawr, 1846
- Lewis and Lawn: Dancing Diabolists, c. 1930-40
- Llandrindod Wells medieval log boat
- Llangwyfan Hospital, 1955
- Llechwedd Quarry photographs, 1955
- Lloyd George Freedom Caskets
- Lobster fishing at Aber-soch, July 1956
- Lovespoons (Brecknock Museum and Art Gallery)
- Lovespoons (Museum of Welsh Life)
- Lowther College, Bodelwyddan
- Maes Gwyn, Pentrefoelas
- Marching forward! An exhibition of Welsh banners 1900 - 2003
- May-day Fair (Ffair Glamai), Bala, May 1952
- Mechanical Clock, Garden Festival of Wales, 1992
- Medieval Floor Tiles
- Memories of Soar-y-mynydd chapel
- Mesolithic site, Burry Holms, Glamorgan
- Mesolithic site, Rhuddlan
- Mesolithic site, The Nab Head, Pembrokeshire
- Mining, Chapel and Political banners (South Wales Miners' Library and Cynon Valley Museum)
- Montgomery Fire Brigade
- Motorcycle trials held in three towns in mid Wales, 1950
- Narberth Carnival, c. 1907-10
- Nercwys Hall
- Newport Documentary Photography Survey, 1980s
- Owen Ashton's First World War letters
- Oliver Cromwell and Haverfordwest Castle, 1648
- Ordnance Survey Public Health Maps of Merthyr Tydfil, 1851
- Paintings and sketches by Sydney Curnow Vosper (1866-1942)
- Paintings by Charles Byrd (1916-)
- Paintings by Kyffin Williams (1918-2006)
- Paintings of ships connected with Aberaeron harbour
- Paviland Cave, Glamorgan
- Penmaenmawr train crash, August 1950
- Pentre Works Ceramics, Acrefair, June 1955
- Pentrehobyn Hall, Leeswood
- Penywyrlod Chambered Tomb, Talgarth
- Photographic survey of Capel Celyn (Tryweryn), 1957 -65
- Photographic survey of Elan Valley, 1890s (Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales)
- Photographs of a postman and his horse, 1955
- Photographs of a toy factory, Llanrwst, c. 1950s
- Photographs of Brymbo steelworks, 1965
- Photographs of Carmarthen and district by J. F. Lloyd, c. 1900-05
- Photographs of colourful characters of Kerry, 1910-20
- Photographs of Lake Vyrnwy, 1881-89
- Photographs of mussel and oyster fishermen, Conwy, 1920s-60s
- Photographs of Prisoners at Fron-goch Camp, 1914-18
- Photographs of Swansea and district by Aubrey Colquhoun 1920-30s
- Photographs of the Dinorwig Quarry workshops, Llanberis, 1969
- Photographs of Wales by Roger Fenton, 1850s
- Photographs relating to the Tithe War, Denbighshire, 1888
- Pictorial dictionary of Eliza Pughe, 1840s
- Plans for a proposed workhouse at Lampeter, 1875
- Plas Llan, Eglwys-bach
- Plas Madoc, Llanddoged
- Plas Mawr, Conwy
- Plas Teg, Hope
- Plas Tirion, Llanrwst
- Plas Uchaf, Llansanffraid Glan Conwy
- Plas-yn-Trofarth, Llangernyw
- Pontnewydd Cave, Denbighshire
- Portable Theatres
- Postcards depicting the colliery disaster at Senghennydd, 1913
- Postcards from Wales (National Library of Wales)
- Prehistoric footprints, Uskmouth, Glamorgan
- Protest in Liverpool against the drowning of Capel Celyn (Tryweryn), 1956
- Quilts (Ceredigion Museum)
- Radnorshire Constabulary
- Rebecca Riots (Carmarthenshire Archives Service)
- Rebecca Riots (National Library of Wales)
- Records of the Caernarfonshire Quarter Sessions, 1546-1795
- Red Cross Mountain Rescue Exercise, 1956
- Rhual Hall, Mold
- Robert Owen (1771-1858), socialist and philanthropist
- Roman coins from Bassaleg
- Samplers and embroideries (Museum of Welsh Life)
- School of Art, University of Wales, Aberystwyth
- Scott of the Antarctic
- Second World War letters from G. K. Higginson of Wrexham
- Seiont II, dredger from Caernarfon
- Singleton Abbey, Swansea
- Sketches of the Cynon Valley by the Bacon Sisters, 1830s
- Soflan, Llanrwst
- South Wales Police Museum Collection
- Strata Marcella Abbey (Ystrad Marchell)
- Swansea blitz, 1941
- Temperance Societies
- Tenby Shell Collection of Arthur Goodwin Stubbs
- Teyrdan Hall, Llaneilian-yn-Rhos
- The Ladies of Llangollen
- The Tower, Mold
- Theatre Play Bills (Cardiff Central Library)
- Time capsule of the new Wesleyan Chapel, Aberystwyth, 1878
- Tracts and Papers relating to the Civil War, 1641-2
- Trial of Elizabeth and Jane Baines, forgers, 1818
- Victorian 'mug-shot' albums from Denbighshire
- W. Goscombe John (1860-1952), sculptor
- W. H. Davies (1871-1940), poet and author
- Wales and the international rail trade, 1830-80
- Walking the boundaries of the borough of Welshpool
- Watercolours by Baroness Frances Bunsen (1791-1876)
- Watercolours by Julius Caesar Ibbetson (1759-1817)
- Watercolours by Penry Williams, 1822-24
- Watercolours of Flintshire churches and houses, c.1770-1800
- Wedding of Shan Emlyn and Owen Edwards, 1958
- Welsh Blankets and Bedcovers (Carthenni)
- Welsh character portraits by George O. Delamotte, 1820
- Welsh Costume (Ceredigion Museum)
- Welsh Slate Museum, Llanberis
- West Wales Museum of Childhood
- Woollen Mills and Factories
