Another #EYATiny. This is a little set of brass pharmacy weights. The tiny amounts of ingredients needed to make certain medications required the tiniest weights. The smallest would be grains, drams and scruples

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Almost certainly the smallest things in our archive are these microdots from the Portland Spy Ring. #EYAtiny #EYA #ExploreYourArchive

A little metal plane recovered from a patient after they had swallowed it, and an accompanying X-ray, 1920

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Thornton's 'Book of Remembrances' is tiny - the cover is 133mm x 96mm but the pages inside are 102mm x 80mm, with some smaller pages stitched in at the back. Despite this it runs to c.28K words.
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For Day 3 of Explore Your Archive Week, we have something very tiny - but also very large!

The Hudson Transparencies are large paintings on paper screens, used as visual aids in the 19th century to teach about microscopic organisms.

📷 EUL MS 442

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This tiny, fragile piece of paper is a specimen of the camp money in use in No. 2 Camp, Ballykinlar, where Michael Hayes spent his internment. #EYATiny #EYABeagBídeach

#EYATiny A collection of labels for tinctures, medications, general remedies & products sold by Hayes, Conyngham & Robinson Pharmaceutical Chemists (1897/1998), if you zoom in you’ll be able to see just how #tiny some of them are! @araireland.bsky.social #histmed #explorearchives #pharmacy

Day 3 of #ExploreYourArchive and for #EYATiny we explain the simple but tiny steps we can all take to ensure collections are safely preserved for future generations!
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Share your favourite archive items that relate to today’s theme - #EYATiny

Lá 3 #CuardaighDoChartlann
Roinn na míreanna cartlainne is fearr leat a bhaineann le téama an lae inniu -
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This is one of the smallest things in our museum. A #tiny skull pin badge which was worn by one of the opponents of the Salvation Army in 1880s: the Skeleton Army. Read more here:
www.salvationarmy.org.uk/about-us/int...

Photo credit: Lauren Foster

What’s in the smallest box on shelf in this section of Bolton Archives strong room?

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Jackie Stone, only 2, has collected £8 10s for comforts for wounded soldiers. He accompanied the Lady Mayoress on her visit to the Welsh Metropolitan Hospital

Western Mail, 19/06/1915

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The household account book of Thomas Lane of Leyton Grange is small rather than truly tiny, but the meticulous entries in his tiny writing fill every page. These examples show expenditure on servants, plus the annual summary of expenses for 1805.
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Tomorrow is #DrWhoDay, so here’s Chesterfield Police’s guide to using a Police Box [or the TARDIS?]. You could call the Police, Fire Brigade and Police Ambulance. In a poor area, at night, you could also call doctors, midwives or hospitals! No mention of Daleks.

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Slides of Bolton’s Streets not much information without going to the records but I think taken by school girls

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