Field Search

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Field Search on Catalogue Records

Inventory No

e.g. 74444

Title

Creation Date

e.g. c. 1850 or 18th century

Creator Name

Primary Inscription

Provenance

Collection Group

“Barnett Collection”

“Beeson Collection”

“Bertie Photographs”

“Billmeir Collection”

“Blundell Manuscripts”

“Carpenter Photographs”

“Clay Collection”

“Clay Collection additions”

“Daubeny Collection”

“Dyer”

“Elliott Archive”

“Elliott Collection”

“EM Nelson Collection”

“Ferguson Manuscripts”

“Florey Collection”

“Gabb Collection”

“Galton Collection”

“Gunther Archive”

“Gunther Collection”

“Gunther Loan collection”

“Gurney Photographs”

“Haldane Collection”

“Hermann Gunther Collection …”

“Herschel’s Photographic …”

“Hyde Parker Collection”

“Inwards Photographs”

“John Thompson collection”

“Keeley Collection”

“Lewis Evans Collection”

“Marconi Collection”

“Mason Collection”

“Millburn Collection”

“Minn Collection”

“Museum Archive”

“North Manuscripts”

“Oglander collection”

“Old Ashmolean Excavation 1999”

“Oriel College Collection”

“Orrery Collection”

“Pointer Collection”

“Portraits Collection”

“Radcliffe Observatory Archive”

“Radcliffe Observatory …”

“Riza Photographs”

“RMS-MHS Collection”

“Robert Gunther Loan Collection”

“Royal Astronomical Society …”

“Royal Microscopical …”

“Royal Microscopical …”

“Royal Microscopical …”

“Royal Microscopical …”

“Shortt Photographs”

“Sidgwick Photographs”

“Thomson Photographs”

“Underhill Collection”

“University Observatory …”

Brief Description

e.g. brass, green

Material

Accession Number

e.g. 1998-7 or 1913

Other No

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Basic Search | Advanced Search | Field Search

There are a number of different ways to search the collections database:

- The basic search is a simple keyword search of the key fields in the museum’s collections database.

- The advanced search is similar to the basic search but allows for more complex queries.

- The field search allows searches which are targeted on one or more of the key database fields.

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