Raw Material
Details
Type of record: Archive
Title: Raw Material
Classmark: LAVC/COR/1
Creator(s): Orton, Harold (1898-1975)
Date(s): [1928-1939]
Size and medium: 1 box [part] with 3 files.; 0.41 linear metres.
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/409333
Collection group(s): Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture
Description
Harold Orton's ms. fieldwork recordings in phonetic script, and ms. orthographic notes on informants for the Armstrong College Survey of Northumbrian Dialects. The recordings are in pencil on loose sheets, including responses to prepared word lists based on Joseph Wright's 'English Dialect Grammar', (1905), and incidental material. The Raw Material includes some recordings of dialect speech.
Provenance
The items were originally held with Harold Orton's correspondence in a folder marked Northumbrian dialect. Raw material. Fieldwork notes for each locality were held in separate envelopes marked with the locality name. During his work on the Orton Corpus, Kurt Rydland imposed an alphabetical system of arrangement on Orton's fieldwork notes by locality name. Sets of notes for individual localities were separated by dividing slips detailing the locality name, and extent of the fieldwork. The pages of fieldwork notes were additionally numbered in ms., and held in individual plastic folders before being placed in three separate A4 ring binders. The dividing slips and fieldwork notes have been removed from their A4 binders and are now held in archivally-sound files. Their arrangement retains the order imposed by Rydland.
System of arrangement
Alphabetical system of arrangement.
Access and usage
Reproduction
Access
This material is not subject to restrictions under Data Protection or other relevant legislation that might limit access. However, other protections, such as donor conditions or conservation considerations, may still apply where advised.
Publication Rights
Property rights reside with the University of Leeds. Copyright in unpublished papers, photographs and sound recordings are retained by their authors or his/her heirs or assigns, irrespective of present ownership. Permission to publish copyright material should be sought in writing from the Head of Special Collections, University of Leeds.
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