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Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture23
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Houck, Charles L3
Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)2
Green, Anthony E (1943-)2
'Dusty'1
Baldwin, John R1
Bradley, Tom1
Bridges, P.1
Campbell, John Francis (1822-1885)1
Davies, Dick1
Davison, Cyril S.P.1

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Archive File

West Midlands Responses: Book V, Part 6

[1960s]

Collated responses from the West Midland counties to Survey of English Dialects (SED) questions from Book V, Part 6: Baking. Includes questions V.6.1 Flour - V.6.12 Sad (of Bread or Pastry).

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Grammar, etc.: Gloucestershire

[1960s]

Collated data relating to grammar and usage collected from Survey of English Dialects (SED) responses for localities in Gloucestershire. This includes sets of individual data sheets for Deerhurst, Gre...

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"Lapps on Skis" Watercolour

Campbell, John Francis (1822-1885)

[1960s]

Slide reproduction of John Francis Campbell's watercolour painting, 'Lapps on Skis', 1850. The painting depicts a scene at Kvikkjok (Sweden), with a man in winter dress including snow shoes (Skibaner)...

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Narrow Phonetic Transcription on the Computer: Taking the Phone off the Hook

Keil, Gerald C

1974

This file contains a photocopy of Gerald Keil's typed paper (17, [6] pp.) on the IMPAC project to index, map and analyse data collected for the Survey of English Dialects (SED), using a computer. The ...

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Derbyshire Response Books

Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)

1955-1956

Response books, completed in ms. phonetic script, recording the answers of informants from Survey of English Dialects (SED) localities in Derbyshire to the Dieth-Orton Questionnaire. Responses were re...

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Conistone Survey Contact Prints: D
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Conistone Survey Contact Prints: D

July 1971

Contact prints of photographs taken during a Survey of Vernacular Architecture around Conistone ( Wharfedale), undertaken by students on the Museums Association Diploma Curatorial Course in Folk Life ...

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Lists of Forms

Orton, Harold (1898-1975)

[1960s]

This file contains papers which record the different word forms collected at different locations, and in different counties, on a single sheet or set of sheets. The recordings all appear to have been ...

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Miscellaneous Dialect Papers 4

[1933-1978]

This file contains a paper napkin printed with pictures and numbers with words in Welsh and English (undated); Harold Orton's review of Eugen Dieth's 'A Grammar of the Buchan Dialect (Aberdeenshire), ...

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Sound Recordings, [West Yorkshire]

Green, Anthony E (1943-)

1964-1966

Unedited Field Master tape. Male sings [4 unidentified, one a fragment]. [Tr. 6] Female sings [2 unidentified]. [Tr. 7] Singers [?recorded in a pub]. Male sings 'Don't Go Down the Mine Dad' [par...

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Correspondence : 1987-1990

c.1972-c.1990

Folders of correspondence mainly covering period c.1987-c.1990 in English unless otherwise specified. Some include copies of ZB’s letters. Files include correspondence from/re: 1) Various inc Pol...

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Conferences and Folk Events

1974-1981

This file contains ephemera used to promote and provide information on conferences and other events related to folklore and folklife. This includes a leaflet for the 2nd Yorkshire Folk and Craft Fayre...

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Sheffield Dialect Words

Ellin, Thomas R

1929-1934

Four notebooks of the address book variety, with A-Z thumb tabs down the right-hand side, containing collections of Sheffield dialect words. The first, bearing the words Where is it in gold lettering ...

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