Slides
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Type of record: Archive
Title: Slides
Classmark: LAVC/PHO/S
Related People: Ryedale Folk Museum(); Museum of English Rural Life()
Date(s): [1950s-1970s]
Size and medium: 930 slides in 7 boxes and 2 slide cases.; 0.6 linear metres.
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/413118
Collection group(s): Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture
Description
The photographic collections at the Institute of Dialect and Folk Life Studies (IDFLS) include over 900 individual slides acquired and created by members of staff, including Harold Orton, Stewart Sanderson, Wille Brunk and Trevor Faulkner (former member of staff at the Workshop Theatre, School of English).
The slides include large glass plate slides, lantern slides, small glass slides, and modern slide formats, and amount to over 900 individual items. The subject matter depicted consists of two main areas: linguistic maps, and photographic images relating to folk life and traditional culture.
The majority of the linguistic maps reflect the paper-based maps held in subfonds LAVC/MAP and LAVC/LAE/1/3. These maps are experimental in nature, and were probably produced with the aim of publishing a Linguistic Atlas of England. They are largely either lexical or phonological, and are all based on responses collected for the Survey of English Dialects (SED). These SED-related maps are accompanied by slides of printer's pages and copy relating to the SED editorial programme, and of pages and text from the published SED questionnaire and Basic Material volumes.
In addition to the SED-related maps are a number of slides of maps and figures copied from published works relating to the development of the English language.
The slides of photographic images relate to a variety of subject areas. They include slide copies of some photographs contained in the Photo File, including images of salmon fishing on the River Nith; sheep washing at Thornton Rust; gathering sheep for shearing in Apedale; Wille Brunk's photographs of Cleveland Bay horses and horse equipment and tackle; the Cottingley fairies; cruck-framed buildings and vernacular architecture at the Ryedale Folk Museum; Wille Brunk's photographs of blacksmith Eric Snaith and his shop; drawings of Lincolnshire folk drama characters (as held at LAVC/NSP/47); and images of Gypsy Traveller communities acquired from the Museum of English Rural life at Reading. The subject matter of slides not duplicating images from the Photo File includes Swedish vernacular architecture (including buildings at open-air museums); Swedish wall paintings; Norwegian textiles; the cities of Bergen (Norway) and Oslo (Sweden); the Faroese landscape and fishing boats; dry stone walls;
cow stalls; brass bands; the Yorkshire landscape and vernacular architecture; and old images of Dales life. Additionally there are a number of slides connected with undergraduate dissertations by Ian McNay (ropemaking in Castleton (Derbyshire), ropework items and the Canal Museum at Stoke Bruerne, and harvesting and hay ropemaking on the Lleyn Peninsular); Lesley Witton (rag-and-bone carts in Leeds); and Dorothy Nott (the Up-Helly-Aa festival).
Provenance
These slides may have been created by or for Harold Orton and Stanley Ellis for teaching and illustrative purposes.
All of these slides are copies, and it is unclear who was responsible for their actual creation and exactly when they were created. In item level records for these slides, an estimated date range for their creation has been assigned. Information on the creator(s) and dates of the original maps from which the slides were taken has been included in the scope-content description. It should be noted that the unit dates of the slides relate to the date the slide was created, and not the slide's subject matter.
The slides were originally held in a variety of locations, with some in wooden lantern slide boxes, some completely loose with no apparent storage, and a series of slides in a 4-drawer slide cabinet. The slides in the slide cabinet (labelled with original reference numbers A1-150, B1-150, C1-150, and D1-37) were catalogued for the IDFLS Card File and Slide Index by Institte archivists during its lifetime. Information from these sources has been used in cataloguing the slides. Slides A78, A87, and B79 (according to the original reference numbers) are missing. B121 was thought to be missing, but was later discovered in a container with a label stating that the details needed checking against the accession register (also missing). Consequently, it has been listed out of sequence.
Related documentation or information has not been found for some slides in the collection. As a consequence, the information on the slides in the current LAVC catalogue is occasionally incomplete, or has included a degree of guesswork on the part of the cataloguers. This is particularly so concerning geographical locations, dates and information relating to the slides collected by Trevor Faulkner (LAVC/PHO/S822-914).
System of arrangement
The slides have been arranged in order of size, with the larger glass lantern slides catalogued first. Aside from this arrangement, the slides have largely been catalogued in the order in which they were found. Some of the slides had previously been grouped through the application of coloured tape (in the case of glass slides), marking codes and coloured stickers. The arrangement of these groupings has been retained as far as possible. Where a group of slides consists of SED-related subject matter (word maps, for example), the slide group has been arranged by SED question number. The order of the slides from the green slide cabinet has been retained.
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