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Total number of records: 16

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culture16
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persons16
clothing and dress15
occupations8
buildings7
play6
textile industry5
handicraft4
home4

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Langhorne, Richard4
Price, Sarah M2
Assistant Manager of the Styal Estate1
Brears, Peter C D1
Green, Tony1
Humphries, Dennis1
Lownds, Annie1
Metcalfe, Mat1
Russell, Ray1
Wolstenholme, Mary1
Norwegian Folk Dancers
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Norwegian Folk Dancers

March 1965

4 Norwegian folk dancers (1 older boy and girl; and 1 younger boy and girl) performing in traditional dress at the Norsk Folkemuseum (Norwegian Folk Museum) in Bygdøy, Oslo. They are performing insid...

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Swedish Wedding Costume
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Swedish Wedding Costume

March 1965

Traditional wedding costume from Leksand (Sweden), from the exhibition of peasant costumes at the Nordiska Museet in Stockholm . The costume consists of a red bodice with white blouse, and a blue skir...

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Woollen Stockings (Handknitting)
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Woollen Stockings (Handknitting)

Langhorne, Richard

18 June 1964

Knitted woollen stockings from the Whitehead Collection at the Castle Museum, York. Unmounted.

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Cottage Interior (Norway)
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Cottage Interior (Norway)

March 1965

View of the interior of an old Norwegian cottage at the Norsk Folkemuseum (Norwegian Folk Museum) in Oslo. A woman in traditional dress sits to the left of the fireside; a wooden chair with a circular...

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Norwegian Dulcimer
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Norwegian Dulcimer

March 1965

Female in traditional dress, sitting at a wooden table and playing a Norwegian dulcimer, at the Norsk Folkemuseum (Norwegian Folk Museum) in Bygdøy, Oslo. The room in which the woman sits is inside o...

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Sound Recordings, [Cheshire]

Price, Sarah M

August 1977

Annie Lownds talks about working at Quarry Bank Mill, Styal, before it was a museum - hours of work, pay, work (weaving) techniques and process. [Tr. 6] Mary Wolstenholme and her sister, Nellie, tal...

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Needle Supports (Handknitting)

Langhorne, Richard

18 June 1964

Display showing child's bladed needle support with hen quill reinforcement, padded needle support with straps riveted to the pad, two Shetland-type horse-hair stuffed needle supports, and a cowband, f...

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Clogmaking: Shaping Soles

[1970s]

Clogger shaping wooden clog soles on a wooden bench in a workshop at the West Yorkshire Folk Museum, Shibden Hall, Halifax. Shaping tools hand on the wall of the workshop in the background. Mounted on...

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Sedan Chair

[1970s]

Photographic postcard from the West Yorkshire Folk Museum, Shibden Hall, Halifax. The postcard shows a woman in period costume, sitting in a sedan chair which dates from ca. 1790. The door of the seda...

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Sound Recordings, West Yorkshire and North Yorkshire

Brears, Peter C D

July 1971

Museums Association Diploma Curatorial Course in Folk Life and Local History field trip. Interviews with employees at Birkby's Clog Makers, Birkby; female clogger (machinist) explains the method of cl...

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Papers on Folk Collections, Etc.

[1961-1982]

This file contains various leaflets, printed volumes and other items relating to places of historical/folk interest, and folk-related collections. This includes a general leaflet for Bunratty Folk Par...

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Needle Supports (Handknitting)

Langhorne, Richard

18 June 1964

Display showing methods of suspension of needle supports in the Whitehead Collection at the Castle Museum, York. The display shows items from Weardale, including a belt, wooden needle supports (some w...

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