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Embroidered Tapestry (Norway)
January 1965
Embroidered tapestry frieze from Oseberg (Norway). The tapestry depicts a historical scene of horses, carts, and people, and has patterned borders above and below. A note in the Slide Index states tha...
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...
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...
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...
The Silvery Slocan: History and Folklife
Smith, Peter
1977
A study of history and folklife among a mining community, the Slocan [Silver] Mining Division, in south-eastern British Columbia. The study is based on evidence from both documentary and oral sources,...
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...
Sound Recording, Devon
Read, John (1884-1963)
8 July 1958
[John Read announcement]; John Read, recorded at the home of his friend, Victor Bonham-Carter, in East Anstey, giving his recollections of country life and the dialect in south-eastern Somerset. Talks...
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...