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Total number of records: 295

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Archives294
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Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture294
Cookery Collection1

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agriculture295
food crops295
occupations294
food293
community life209
culture208
implements, utensils etc178
english language - dialects176
nature173
animals157

Top 10: People and organisations

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Kissling, Werner (1895-1988)120
Fothergill, George William47
Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)26
Raw, David23
Barry, Michael V (1935-)19
Dunn, Ginette15
Fothergill, Mrs14
Hodgson, John Oswald9
Kylstra, Henk E9
Holdsworth, Mr N.7
Hay Harvest
Archive Item

Hay Harvest

McNay, Ian

1966

Farm workers gathering harvested hay into sheaves by hand, in a field on the Lleyn Peninsula (North Wales). Traditional methods were still employed at this time, particularly after heavy rain which wo...

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Hay Harvest
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Hay Harvest

McNay, Ian

1966

Farm workers gathering harvested hay into sheaves by hand, in a field on the Lleyn Peninsula (North Wales). Traditional methods were still employed at this time, particularly after heavy rain which wo...

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Hay Harvest
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Hay Harvest

McNay, Ian

1966

Farm workers gathering harvested hay into sheaves by hand, in a field on the Lleyn Peninsula (North Wales). They are helped by a young boy. Ropes made of plaited hay are used to bind the sheaves.

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Survey of English Dialects recording in Crowland, Lincolnshire

Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)

23 May 1953

[Side 1] Bill talks about breeding pigs, recalls cycle of success and failure, incl. losing whole herd to 'purples' [= swine fever], encouraged son to keep pigs but sold yard and bought two acres outs...

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Archive File

Hops and Hop-Picking

[ca. late 1960s]

This file contains items collected for P. K. Kemp's undergraduate dissertation on migrant hop-pickers in Kent, submitted to the Institute of Dialect and Folk Life Studies in 1970. The includes a photo...

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Archive Print Item

Plants, food, and people

Chrispeels, Maarten J (1938-); Sadava, David E

1977

Includes index.

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Bean Barrow
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Bean Barrow

Kissling, Werner (1895-1988)

September 1967

Bean barrow used for sowing beans and peas, Holgate Farm, Hurst Moor ( Arkengarthdale). Mounted on Photo File card. With ms. note and catalogue details partially in the hand of Werner Kissling.

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Hay Harvest
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Hay Harvest

McNay, Ian

1966

Farm worker harvesting hay using a combine harvester, in a field on the Lleyn Peninsula (North Wales).

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Hay Rope and Hay Sledge
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Hay Rope and Hay Sledge

McNay, Ian

1966

Two farmworkers securing a stack of hay covered with rushes (to keep out the rain) using a length of hay rope, in a field on the Lleyn Peninsular (North Wales). This is the main use to which hay ropes...

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SED Questionnaire Page: Cereals and Harvesting
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SED Questionnaire Page: Cereals and Harvesting

[1950s-1960s]

Page 9 of the SED Questionnaire as published by the Leeds Philosophical and Literary Society, with questions for II.5 Cereals, and II.6 Harvesting.

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Haymaking: Farmer
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Haymaking: Farmer

Kissling, Werner (1895-1988)

July 1962

Farmer sitting on horse-drawn side delivery, Dent ( Dentdale). Mounted on Photo File card with LAVC/PHO/P1071. With typed note.

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Cornish Harvest Cart

[1970s]

Cornish harvest cart, Stratton (Cornwall). The cart is open at the front and back. Mounted on Photo File card.

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