Bound volume of News Cuttings (1693-1914)
Details
Type of record: Archive
Title: Bound volume of News Cuttings (1693-1914)
Classmark: BC MS ROM 1/9/1
Original reference: 945
Date(s): 1693-1914
Size and medium: 1 volume (and 13 loose leaf articles)
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/507972
Collection group(s): Gypsy, Traveller and Roma Collections
Description
Bound Volume of items titled,"Gypsy News Cuttings (1693-1914)," and 13 loose leaf items.
(Approximately 70 single pages with empty pages at the end).
Cuttings from press and other printed material (many illustrated) referencing Gypsy and Travellers.
Also includes postcard from Dora E Yates which mentions that the collection was bought by Dorothy Una Ratcliffe, (DUR) and arranged by Dora E Yates.
There are a couple of early items but most of the cuttings are taken mainly from British Press and in almost chronological order from 1753-1914. There are a few European articles.
Subjects include (but are not limited to) fortune-telling, weddings and prosecutions of Gypsy and Travellers.
Originally referenced, '945,' in the published catalogue, (1962).
It was described in this as, " material arranged by Dora.E. Yates, containing 224 press cuttings including reproductions."
Access and usage
Reproduction
Access
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