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Total number of records: 497

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Books and printed items65

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Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture432
Cookery Collection19
Brotherton Collection4
Herbert Read Collection2
Maurice de Sausmarez Archive2
Yorkshire Archaeological and Historical Society2
Gypsy, Traveller and Roma Collections1
Leeds Russian Archive1

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dwellings497
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architecture255
occupations199
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nature172
culture165
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Kissling, Werner (1895-1988)103
Brunk, Wille58
Sanderson, Stewart (1924-)41
Voitl, Herbert31
Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019)29
Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)16
Mcnay, Ian10
Hartley, Dorothy9
Caunce, Stephen7
Liman, Ingemar (1938-)7

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L'habitation humaine

Garnier, Charles (1825-1898); Ammann, Auguste (1844-)

1892

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Um skipulag baeja

Guðmundur Hannesson (1866-1946)

1916

Supplement to Árbók Háskóla Íslands 1916.

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SED Word Map: Cowhouse
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SED Word Map: Cowhouse

Orton, Harold (1898-1975)

[1950s-1960s]

Experimental printed word map of the Northern Counties, completed in ms., for SED question I.1.8, Cowhouse, mapping responses (Cow)-byre, Cowhouse, Cow-stable, Mistall, and Shippon. The map was create...

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The growth of the English house : a short history of its architectural development from 1100 to 1800

Gotch, J Alfred (1852-1942); Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019); Darien Press

1909

Includes indexes and glossary.

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Stone Cottages (Yorkshire Dales)
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Stone Cottages (Yorkshire Dales)

Kissling, Werner (1895-1988)

26 January 1967

Row of garden-fronted stone cottages in an unidentified Dales village. Mounted on Photo File card with LAVC/PHO/P0086.

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Stone Cottages (Yorkshire Dales)
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Stone Cottages (Yorkshire Dales)

Kissling, Werner (1895-1988)

30 January 1967

Row of stone cottages in an unidentified Dales village. Mounted on Photo File card.

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Traditional Houses, Rasinari (Romania)
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Traditional Houses, Rasinari (Romania)

Sanderson, Stewart (1924-)

December 1974

Row of traditional houses in Rasinari, a Romanian shepherds' village. The houses included a courtyard and usually a gallery, with examples of this kind of dwelling still being built in the 1960s. Man ...

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Traditional House, Rasinari (Romania)
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Traditional House, Rasinari (Romania)

Sanderson, Stewart (1924-)

December 1974

Traditional house in Rasinari, a Romanian shepherds' village. The house is one of the oldest buildings in the village. It is a timber construction which has been plastered over on the floor level. Mou...

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Side Street, Rasinari (Romania)
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Side Street, Rasinari (Romania)

Sanderson, Stewart (1924-)

December 1974

View of a side street in the Romanian shepherds' village of Rasinari, showing wooden fences and wooden-frame houses. Mounted on IDFLS Photo Card with LAVC/PHO/P0095.

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Side Street, Rasinari (Romania)
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Side Street, Rasinari (Romania)

Sanderson, Stewart (1924-)

December 1974

View of a side street in the Romanian shepherds' village of Rasinari, showing wooden fences and wood-framed houses. Mounted on IDFLS Photo Card with LAVC/PHO/P0094.

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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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