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Total number of records: 35

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nature35
animals30
occupations26
agriculture21
implements, utensils etc18
home16
house furnishings13
community life12
vehicles9
food8

Top 10: People and organisations

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Kissling, Werner (1895-1988)20
Horner, Mr M.9
Blades, Jim5
Horner, Will3
Hucklebridge, John3
Liman, Ingemar (1938-)3
Cooper, Mary1
Cooper, William1
Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)1
Hartley, Dorothy1

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Stagecoach

[1970s]

Photographic postcard from the West Yorkshire Folk Museum, Shibden Hall, Halifax. The postcard shows a stagecoach drawn by a team of four horses, which dates from around 1820. Men and women in period ...

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Shepherd and Dog
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Shepherd and Dog

[1970s]

Copy of a photograph dating from the late-19th/early-20th century, of a man [?shepherd/?farmer] sitting with his dog in a field of sheep. The location has not been identified.

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"Gypsy Children"

Hucklebridge, John

1968

The two young Light family boys, sitting on a trunk at an unknown location in Wiltshire. Both boys hold a young chicken in their hands. Mounted on Photo File card.

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Horse Team and Cultivator
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Horse Team and Cultivator

[1970s]

Copy of a photograph taken in the early 20th century of a farm worker with a two-horse team harnessed to a cultivator, in a field on the Yorkshire Wolds. The farmworker sits on the cultivator. Mounted...

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"Gypsy Caravan"

Hucklebridge, John

[1970s]

Copy of a photograph taken in 1959, of a Gypsy Traveller caravan on the road, passing through West Harptree (Somerset). The family (two parents, and two young children) sit outside the caravan, which ...

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Community Outing

[1970s]

Copy of a photograph taken in the early 20th century, of farmworkers and their families gathered for a seaside outing, Burton Fleming (East Riding of Yorkshire). The wives and children of the farmwork...

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"Gypsy Family"

Hartley, Dorothy

[1970s]

Copy of a photograph taken ca. 1920 of a Gypsy Traveller family sitting outside their caravan in an unknown (English) location. The family consists of two parents, five children and a baby. The family...

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Trout Fishing: Making a Fishing Net Bool
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Trout Fishing: Making a Fishing Net Bool

Kissling, Werner (1895-1988)

June 1962

Informant Jim Blades, sitting on a wooden box outside a dwelling house in Hawes, Wensleydale, and bending a piece of green ash into a fishing net bool by stringing it into position on an iron mould. M...

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Trout Fishing: Making a Fishing Net Bool
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Trout Fishing: Making a Fishing Net Bool

Kissling, Werner (1895-1988)

June 1962

Informant Jim Blades, sitting on a wooden box outside a dwelling house in Hawes, Wensleydale, and bending a piece of green ash into a fishing net bool by stringing it into position on an iron mould. M...

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Trout Fishing: Making a Fishing Net Bool
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Trout Fishing: Making a Fishing Net Bool

Kissling, Werner (1895-1988)

June 1962

Informant Jim Blades, sitting on a wooden box outside a dwelling house in Hawes, Wensleydale, and bending a piece of green ash into a fishing net bool by stringing it into position on an iron mould. M...

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Trout Fishing: Making a Fishing Net Bool
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Trout Fishing: Making a Fishing Net Bool

Kissling, Werner (1895-1988)

June 1962

Informant Jim Blades, sitting on a wooden box outside a dwelling house in Hawes, Wensleydale, and bending a piece of green ash into a fishing net bool by stringing it into position on an iron mould. M...

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Trout Fishing: Making a Fishing Net Bool
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Trout Fishing: Making a Fishing Net Bool

Kissling, Werner (1895-1988)

June 1962

Informant Jim Blades, sitting on a wooden box outside a dwelling house in Hawes, Wensleydale, and bending a piece of green ash into a fishing net bool by stringing it into position on an iron mould. M...

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