Gathering the Jewels:: This and That

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Here you will find over 20,000 images of objects, books, letters, aerial photographs and other items from museums, libraries and record offices in Wales.

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'Time Capsule' of the new Wesleyan Chapel, Aberystwyth, 1878

Albino moles

Autograph of Rudolph Hess

Buffalos

Burial of camel 1872

Cursing pot

Fox head and silver cup

Giant's shoe

Laurel Wreath and Peace Treaty 1918

Mermaids

Model carved from mutton bones

Napoleon's wallpaper

Nelson's glass eye

Pontypool shell grotto

Recipe to cure the bite of a mad dog

Roman Uvula Forceps

Sarah Jacob, 'The Welsh Fasting Girl' (1857-69)

Scold's bridle

Shakespeare and Chepstow Castle

St Jacob's Ladder

Whiskey the turnspit dog