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Count of Collection group

Collection groupCount
Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture5
Brotherton Collection2
Novello Cowden Clarke Collection2

Top 10: Subject

SubjectCount
agriculture7
occupations5
animals3
community life3
nature3
food2
food crops2
implements, utensils etc2
manners and customs2
painting2

Count of People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Kissling, Werner (1895-1988)2
Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)1
Liman, Ingemar (1938-)1
Richardson, Mr.1
Sanderson, Stewart (1924-)1
Sutton, Carole1

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From 18002
From 19005

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Up to 19995

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untitled watercolour [rural scene in winter]

c. 1850

Untitled and undated watercolour on paper of a rural scene in winter, with a body of water in the foreground, agricultural buildings and bare trees, by Emma Aloysia Novello.

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untitled watercolour [rural scene with horse and cart]

c. 1850

Untitled and undated watercolour on paper of a rural scene with horses and cart in the foreground, by Emma Aloysia Novello.

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Wall Painting (Sweden)
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Wall Painting (Sweden)

March 1965

Slide of Anders Bengtsson's wall painting, 'The Shepherds'/ 'Herdarna', painted in 1858, Norra Bökeberg (Hallands Lan, Sweden). The painting depicts the biblical scene of the Annunciation to the Shep...

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Smithfield Wholesale Fruit and Vegetable Market, Manchester

Sutton, Carole

1971

A study of Smithfield Market in Manchester, with sections on the production and transmission of goods to the wholesaler, imported produce, the ports and importers, the Liverpool auctions, home grown p...

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Harvest Supper Setting
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Harvest Supper Setting

[1960s]

Display showing a room decorated for a Wolds harvest supper, at an unidentified Yorkshire museum. The scene shows a long table and benches set for at least twelve people, with candles, jugs, bread, pi...

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Photographs of Traditional Work Techniques and Implements

[1960s]

The photographs in this file show farming scenes (hay gathering, PC1022, PC1053, PC1060), stone barn and cow shed constructions (PC0268, PC0269, PC0275, PC0277), cheesemaking (PC1519), buttermaking (P...

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Sound Recordings, North Yorkshire

Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)

June 1965

Farmers washing sheep in Outgang Beck, Thornton Rust in Wensleydale. This event, revived for the first time since 1935, was recorded photographically, on audio tape and 16mm cine film by Stewart Sande...

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