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Caunce, Stephen2
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Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor, 1685-17401
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Appleby Horse Fair: Caravans
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Appleby Horse Fair: Caravans

Caunce, Stephen

June 1972

Modern Gypsy Traveller caravans, at Appleby Horse Fair, Appleby (Cumbria). A painted wooden horse trap and grazing horse stand in front of the caravans. Mounted on Photo File card with LAVC/PHO/P1612 ...

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Appleby Horse Fair: Carts

Caunce, Stephen

June 1972

Three Gypsy Traveller children standing in front of wooden rag-and-bone carts at Appleby Horse Fair, Appleby (Cumbria). Modern Gypsy Traveller caravans are visible in the background. Mounted on Photo ...

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Beschreibung was auf Ableiben weyland Ihrer Keyserl Majestät Josephi, biss nach vorgegangener Erb-Huldigung, welche dem allerdurchleuchtigst- grossmächtigst- und unüberwindlichsten Römischen Keyser, Carolo dem Sechsten... als Erz-Herzogen zu Oesterreich, die gesamte nider-oesterreichische Stände den 8. Novembris A: 1712. jn allertieffester Unterthänigkeit abgelegt, sich Merkwürdiges hat zugetragen

Mairn, Johann Baptist von (fl. 1712); Hackhofer, Johann Cyriak (1675-1731); Engelbrecht, Christian (1672-1735); Pfeffel, Johann Andreas (1674-1748); Kenckel, Benjamin; Beduzzi, Antonio Maria Nicolao

[1712]

Illustrations: five single plates, including the frontispiece, one large folded plate and six double plates. The frontispiece is engraved by Benjamin Kenckel after Antonio Beduzzi. The other plates ar...

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Archive File

Headwear and Accessories

1960-1972

This file contains items relating to types of headwear and accessories, and includes a photocopy of Shelagh Weir's paper on a bridal headdress from Southern Palestine, from an unidentified issue of th...

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"Gypsy Wedding"

[1970s]

Copy of a photograph taken in 1910 of the wedding of Sally Penfold to Mr. Orchard at Holsworthy (Devon). The bride and groom, and their guests, stand in a field in the open. The second man from the le...

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Sound Recordings, Oxfordshire

Baldwin, John R

1969

Harry Johnson, recorded at home in Standlake; sings 'I Stand on a Lonely Seashore', 'Meet Me by the Moonlight', 'Polly Perkins of Paddington Green' [fragment], 'The Two Beats the One', sung by informa...

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Sound Recordings, Warwickshire

Wharton, Colin S

1967-1968

Jack Bury, recorded in Winderton; talks about harvesting methods - fagging, tying sheaves and leaving to stand for three bells (i.e. three Sundays); discusses a ?sheppick (hay fork); labour force on t...

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Sound Recording, Cumbria

Attebery, Louie W (1927-)

April 1972

[Collector announcement]; Vivian Fisher, recorded at home in Keswick on the 28 April 1972; talks about local gentry; dialect; John Banks and William Penn; childhood memories of Keswick; Queen Mary and...

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