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Total number of records: 28

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Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture24
Brotherton Collection2
English Literature1
Herbert Read Collection1

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toys28
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occupations18
nature16
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agriculture13
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Tammivaara, Irmeli11
Baker, Alice2
Baker, Charles Albert2
Cross, Miriam2
Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)2
Gimbert, Claude2
Hard, May2
Pate, Allan2
Powell, Herbert Thomas2
Tall, William2

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Archive Print Item

Rinkelbel en rammelaar

Keijser, H; Amsterdam (Netherlands). Stedelijk Museum

[1958?]

Catalogue of an exhibition held at the Gemeente Museum, Amsterdam, 1958?.

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Archive Print Item

Toys in America

McClintock, Inez; McClintock, Marshall

1961

Bibliography: p.465-469.

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Archive File

Reports on Mumming from the Industrial West Riding and Nottinghamshire

Green, Anthony E (1943-)

1966

This file contains a typed paper by Tony Green giving information on mumming plays collected by himself and Mary Greenwald in West Yorkshire and Nottinghamshire. This includes information collected fr...

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Pace Egg and Mumming Plays, and Christmas Carols

Addy, Sidney Oldall (1848-1933)

[1970s]

This file contains a photocopy (made in the early 1970s) of part of an ms. notebook, with printed extracts pasted in, compiled by Sidney Oldall Addy probably during the 1870s. This includes ms. notes ...

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Games and Pastimes

1969-1976

This file comprises four photographic prints of historic European playing cards, accompanied by a photocopy of a typed key to the plates; a photocopy of Frank Weatherill's typed and ms. notes on the g...

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Games with Special Equipment

1968-1979

This file contains items relating to games played by children using special equipment, such as a ball or skipping rope. The file includes a photocopy of Bernard A. Barton's article, 'Let's Laik at Sum...

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Archive File

Decorative Arts

1970-1979

This file contains items relating generally to the decorative arts, including carving and the decoration of items. The file includes a photocopy of Carson I. A. Ritchie's article, 'Art of the Northern...

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Museums

1966-1973

This file contains items relating to museums and related institutions, including Bryce Nelson's article on S. Dillon Ripley's plans for recreating a slum at the Smithsonian Institution, extracted from...

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Needle Supports (Handknitting)

Langhorne, Richard

18 June 1964

Eight children's toy knitting needle supports, in the Whitehead Collection at the Castle Museum, York. Includes a cedar sheath from Skipton (North Yorkshire), reinforced with a hen quill; a sycamore s...

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Sound Recording,

Holloway, Charles

30 December 1978

The collector's parents, Mr. C. R. P. Holloway and Mrs. W. J. Holloway discuss family Christmas traditions - games, children's parties, belief in Santa Claus, Christmas walks, skating on Boxing Day, h...

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