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Total number of records: 206

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SubjectCount
culture206
museums206
occupations140
implements, utensils etc98
buildings90
play56
architecture50
handicraft50
community life49
material culture48

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Langhorne, Richard43
Brunk, Wille23
Hawley, Elizabeth K16
Sanderson, Stewart (1924-)16
Mcnay, Ian10
Chapman, John3
Orton, Harold (1898-1975)3
Kissling, Werner (1895-1988)2
Price, Sarah M2
Unne, Bertram2

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Maihaugen Museum
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Maihaugen Museum

1965

The new Maihaugen Museum building, Lillehammer (Norway). Maihaugen is the home of the Sandvig Collection, a large open-air museum with many restored farm buildings.

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Folk Museums of the British Isles

Orton, W R

1968

This survey of twenty-five British folk museums comprises an introductory section which presents a definition, history and thoughts on the function of the folk museum, followed by individual descripti...

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Wooden Casks

Langhorne, Richard

[1970]

Three small wooden casks from the collections at the Bolling Hall Museum, Bradford.

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Portlider Door Detail
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Portlider Door Detail

January 1965

Portlider detail on the door of a wooden gatehouse at the open-air Upplandsmuseet, Gamla Uppsala (Sweden). The door and doorposts are decorated, the door with a squared pattern typical of the mining d...

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Lofthouse (Sweden)
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Lofthouse (Sweden)

January 1965

Wooden loftbod, or lofthouse, at the open-air Upplandsmuseet (?), Gamla Uppsala (Sweden). There are two rooms on each floor of the building.

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Educational System

[1960s-1970s]

This subseries contains items relating to education, predominantly in terms of ethnographic research and the dissemination of historical and ethnographic information. This includes details of oral his...

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Dwelling house at the Village Museum, Bucharest
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Dwelling house at the Village Museum, Bucharest

Sanderson, Stewart (1924-)

December 1974

Example of the oldest type of Romanian dwelling house, exhibited at the open-air Village Museum in Bucharest. The house is made of timber, with a thatched roof. Mounted on Photo File card with LAVC/PH...

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Dwelling house at the Village Museum, Bucharest
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Dwelling house at the Village Museum, Bucharest

Sanderson, Stewart (1924-)

December 1974

Example of a dwelling house typical of Gorj Hobita, the birthplace of the sculptor Brancusi, exhibited at the open-air Village Museum in Bucharest. The house is made of timber. Mounted on Photo File c...

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Central Cruck from Longhouse
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Central Cruck from Longhouse

Brunk, Wille

16 June 1967

Central cruck of a long house from Stang End, near Danby (North Yorkshire). The longhouse was moved from Stang End to the Ryedale Folk Museum at Hutton-le-Hole in the spring of 1967. Mounted on Photo ...

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Central Cruck from Longhouse
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Central Cruck from Longhouse

Brunk, Wille

16 June 1967

Central cruck of a longhouse from Stang End, near Danby (North Yorkshire). The longhouse was moved from Stang End to the Ryedale Folk Museum at Hutton-le-Hole in the spring of 1967. Mounted on Photo F...

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Central Cruck from Longhouse
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Central Cruck from Longhouse

Brunk, Wille

16 June 1967

Central cruck of a longhouse from Stang End, near Danby (North Yorkshire). The longhouse was moved from Stang End to the Ryedale Folk Museum at Hutton-le-Hole in the spring of 1967. Mounted on Photo F...

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Central Cruck from Longhouse
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Central Cruck from Longhouse

Brunk, Wille

16 June 1967

Central cruck of a longhouse from Stang End, near Danby (North Yorkshire). The longhouse was moved from Stang End to the Ryedale Folk Museum at Hutton-le-Hole in the spring of 1967. Mounted on Photo F...

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