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Total number of records: 12

Count of Collection group

Collection groupCount
Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture7
Maurice de Sausmarez Archive5

Top 10: Subject

SubjectCount
holidays12
manners and customs7
culture6
community life5
persons4
rites and ceremonies4
social life and customs4
automobile driving3
folklore3
food3

Top 10: Place

PlaceCount
France2
Bedford, United Kingdom1
Boulogne, France1
Calais, France1
Croagnes, France1
Dover, United Kingdom1
Florence, Italy1
Fowey, United Kingdom1
Italy1
Makerere, Africa1

Count of People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Bell, Brigid M1
Bell, Mary1
Bell, Robert1
Bell, Sheila1
Calvert, Valerie E1
Caunce, Stephen1
Green, Anthony E (1943-)1
Judge, Mary1
Decorated Egg
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Decorated Egg

Calvert, Valerie E

[1961-1962]

Pasche egg decorated with a miniature painting of Friar's Crag (Cumbria), on a wooden board in a house in Workington .

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Route plans through France

c. 1960

Undated handwritten route plans through France, beginning in Boulogne, noting the distances between places, paint colours, places to stay and places of interest. 1.

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Appleby Horse Fair: Caravans
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Appleby Horse Fair: Caravans

Caunce, Stephen

June 1972

Modern Gypsy Traveller caravans, at Appleby Horse Fair, Appleby (Cumbria). A painted wooden horse trap and grazing horse stand in front of the caravans. Mounted on Photo File card with LAVC/PHO/P1612 ...

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Sound Recording, [Location Unknown]

Bell, Brigid M

24 December 1978

[Collector announcement]; collector's family recorded in conversation whilst eating Christmas Eve supper; discussion covers the food served, Prince Charles' potential bride, Monaco royal family; Luxem...

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Reservations from Dover to Calais

26 Jul 1960-13 Sep 1960

Typed letter from J. Lindsay of the Automobile Association to Maurice de Sausmarez, confirming reservations to travel between Dover and Calais on 26 July 1960 and returning from Boulogne to Dover on 1...

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Archive File

Travel and transport

1955-1969

Documents related to Maurice de Sausmarez's travels across France, Italy and Spain, including official documents and handwritten itineraries for varioius different trips. He often spent the summers pa...

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Easter Witch
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Easter Witch

April 1965

Young boy dressed up as an Easter Witch, Vastra Bon (Varmlands Lan, Sweden). His costume consists of a head scarf, brightly patterned apron, and boots. Many Swedish children dress up as witches on E...

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Easter Witch
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Easter Witch

April 1965

Young girl dressed up as an Easter Witch, Hög (Varmlands Lan, Sweden). Her costume consists of a head scarf, skirt and apron, boots, yellow embroidered shawl, and a basket. Many Swedish children dr...

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Letter from H.A. Rigby to Maurice de Sausmarez

4 Aug 1936

Handwritten letter from H.A. Rigby to Maurice de Sausmarez, on letterheaded paper from St Catherine's Hotel in Fowey, Cornwarll. Rigby had been de Sausmarez's art teacher at Christ's Hospital, the sch...

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Travel, architecture and landscapes

c. 1940-1969

Black and white and colour photographs and negatives of architecture and landscapes in France, Italy, East Africa and the United Kingdom, taken by Maurice de Sausmarez. Includes enlarged photographs o...

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Archive File

Winter and Spring Festivals

1965-1980

This file contains items relating to New Year, Valentine's Day and Shrove Tuesday customs. This includes a typed copy of a letter from Clare Elkin to Stewart Sanderson on the custom of painting New Ye...

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Sound Recording, West Yorkshire

Green, Anthony E (1943-)

23 November 1971

Mary Judge, recorded in Leeds; talks about her upbringing in the Lancashire village of Overton (1900-1914); community life; scrambling for hot pennies at weddings; wedding parties and the food eaten; ...

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