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culture8
english language - dialects8
archive administration6
community life4
education4
language and languages3
literature and folklore3

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Orton, Harold (1898-1975)12
Dieth, Eugen (1893-1956)1
Kissling, Werner (1895-1988)1
Sanderson, Stewart (1924-)1

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Archive Series

Raw Material

Orton, Harold (1898-1975)

[1928-1939]

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 sh...

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Harold Orton Papers

Orton, Harold (1898-1975)

1893-1975

This series relates specifically to Harold Orton's academic research in the field of language and linguistics, and contains correspondence with Survey of English Dialects (SED) fieldworkers, publisher...

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Editor's Papers

Orton, Harold (1898-1975)

1970-1974

Includes Harold Orton's ms. notes; ms. and typescript drafts of introductory text, preliminaries and indexes; draft maps; notes on procedure; and papers relating to corrections and revisions of the WG...

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Editor's Papers

Orton, Harold (1898-1975); Sanderson, Stewart (1924-)

[1968]-1978

This series comprises ms. and typescript editorial notes and other papers relating to editorial meetings; ms. and typescript drafts of texts; experimental and draft 'The Linguistic Atlas of England' (...

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Base and Dialect Area Maps

Orton, Harold (1898-1975)

[1950s-mid 1970s]

This series consists of photocopied and printed base and dialect-area maps, which are predominantly blank and mainly relate to England and the English counties. It includes various base maps of Englan...

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Questionnaire Response Books and Related Papers

Orton, Harold (1898-1975); Dieth, Eugen (1893-1956)

1931-1965

This series contains items which relate in the main to the collection of fieldwork data for the Survey of English Dialects (SED). The practical starting point for the SED was the production of the Die...

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Experimental and Teaching Maps

Orton, Harold (1898-1975)

1950s-mid 1970s

This series includes a large number of experimental word maps based on the data collected by the Survey of English Dialects (SED) for England (with Wales and Scotland); photocopies and transparencies ...

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Index Cards

Orton, Harold (1898-1975)

[1928-1939]

Ms. index cards compiled by Harold Orton from fieldwork data collected for the Armstrong College Survey of Northumbrian Dialects. The information on the cards is recorded phonetically and orthographic...

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Audio-Recording Papers

Orton, Harold (1898-1975)

1956-1995

Typed items relating to aspects of the audio-recording of Survey of English Dialects (SED) informants. This includes Harold Orton's proposals for an anthology of dialect recordings and a linguistic at...

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Over-sized Maps

Orton, Harold (1898-1975)

[1950s-1960s]

The series includes mounted Northern Counties word maps, some originally completed in ms. by Harold Orton, and some printed and headed Survey of English Dialects; mounted word maps of England and Wale...

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Editors' Papers

Orton, Harold (1898-1975)

1947-1971

This series contains papers created during the editing and printing of the Survey of English Dialects (SED) Introduction and Basic Material volumes.

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Photographic Negatives

Orton, Harold (1898-1975); Kissling, Werner (1895-1988)

[1960s-1970s]

The photographic negatives held by the Institute of Dialect and Folk Life Studies (IDFLS) comprise 620 individual negatives and sets of negatives. The collection consists of a variety of formats, incl...

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