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Total number of records: 578

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nature578
community life571
animals470
occupations452
agriculture364
culture322
vehicles274
food251
implements, utensils etc201
food crops171

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Kissling, Werner (1895-1988)125
Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)66
Fothergill, George William46
Brunk, Wille42
Barry, Michael V (1935-)20
Tammivaara, Irmeli15
Outhwaite, T. G.14
Chapman, Mr S.13
Wright, John T13
Dunn, Ginette12

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Horse Sale
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Horse Sale

Kissling, Werner (1895-1988)

July 1964

A buyer and seller striking a bargain at a horse sale at the cattle market in Hawes ( Wensleydale). The horses are kept in the cattle pens for viewing. Mounted on Photo File card with LAVC/PHO/P1587. ...

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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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Lister Post-Chaise

[1970s]

Photographic postcard from the West Yorkshire Folk Museum, Shibden Hall, Halifax. The postcard shows a Lister post-chaise dating from around 1725. The carriage is drawn by a team of two horses. The dr...

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Dales Pony
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Dales Pony

Kissling, Werner (1895-1988)

July 1966

Informant R. L. Peacock with thoroughbred modern Dales working pony, Scarhouse Farm, Muker ( Swaledale). Mounted on Photo File card. Also mounted on the card is a newspaper cutting from the 'Northern ...

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"Gypsy and Dogs"

[1970s]

Copy of a photograph taken in the 1930s of a Gypsy Traveller male with two dogs, in the countryside at an unknown (English) location. The man appears to be sending the dogs into a field, possibly to c...

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Horse-Drawn Vehicles

1965-1972

This file contains items relating to horse-drawn carriages and wagons, etc., and includes a mounted black and white photograph of strickles and mounted postcard depicting an illustration (19th century...

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Animal Sports: Correspondence

1963-1964

This file contains a typed letter [?from Stewart Sanderson] to Mrs. E. Fieldhouse acknowledging her sending audiotapes on cock-fighting to the Institute of Dialect and Folk Life Studies (IDFLS) (5 Jun...

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Striking a Bargain
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Striking a Bargain

Kissling, Werner (1895-1988)

July 1964

Farmers Syd Metcalfe and John Richardson negotiating the sale of a cow outside a farm in Thornton Rust ( Wensleydale). Mounted on Photo File card with LAVC/PHO/P1592. Parts of the negotiating conversa...

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Striking a Bargain
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Striking a Bargain

Kissling, Werner (1895-1988)

July 1964

Farmers Syd Metcalfe and John Richardson negotiating the sale of a cow outside a farm in Thornton Rust ( Wensleydale). Mounted on Photo File card with LAVC/PHO/P1591. Parts of the negotiating conversa...

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Striking a Bargain
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Striking a Bargain

Kissling, Werner (1895-1988)

July 1964

Farmers Syd Metcalfe and John Richardson negotiating the sale of a cow outside a farm in Thornton Rust ( Wensleydale). Mounted on Photo File card with LAVC/PHO/P1593. Parts of the negotiating conversa...

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Striking a Bargain
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Striking a Bargain

Kissling, Werner (1895-1988)

July 1964

Farmers Syd Metcalfe and John Richardson negotiating the sale of a cow outside a farm in Thornton Rust ( Wensleydale). The haggling continues. Mounted on Photo File card with LAVC/PHO/P1599. Parts of ...

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Striking a Bargain
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Striking a Bargain

Kissling, Werner (1895-1988)

July 1964

Farmer Syd Metcalfe with the cow he has purchased from John Richardson, outside a farm in Thornton Rust ( Wensleydale). Mounted on Photo File card with LAVC/PHO/P1601. Card 5 in a series of 5.

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