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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)...
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 ...
Sound Recordings, Cambridgeshire
Tammivaara, Irmeli
June 1974
Herbert Powell, recorded in Sutton on the 17 June 1974 [continued from tape LAVC/SRE/A666r]; talks about horse-drawn cultivator/plough, and compares with modern machinery; describes harrows; hand sowi...
Traditional Song: General
1963-1979
This file contains items relating to aspects of traditional music, and includes a copy of 'The Health of Man', a collection of traditional songs from Bedfordshire, Yorkshire, Suffolk and Lancashire, c...
Sheep, Geese, Bees and Dogs
1957-1973
This file contains items relating largely to the care and management of sheep, but also items on geese, bees and dogs. This includes a typed copy of a letter on sheepshearing in Cumberland, from 'Will...
Sound Recordings, Cambridgeshire
Tammivaara, Irmeli
June 1974
[Collector announcement]; May Hard, recorded in Pymore on 13 June 1974; talks about her father's job as a blacksmith, shoes for horses and donkeys, cart repairs, making harrows, repairing/sharpening p...
Sound Recordings, West Yorkshire
Houck, Charles L
[Mid 1960s-1970s]
Male and female informant responses to a questionnaire used by the collector as part of his sociolinguistic inquiry in Leeds. For the purposes of data collection, the city was divided into a number of...
Hay Ropemaking: Hobbling Rope
McNay, Ian
1965
Farmer using a hobbling rope made of hay to immobilise a sheep, Lleyn Peninsula (North Wales). Hobbling ropes for use with sheep and goats are also depicted in slide LAVC/PHO/S607.
Sound Recordings, West Yorkshire
Houck, Charles L
[Mid 1960s-1970s]
Male and female informant responses to a questionnaire used by the collector as part of his sociolinguistic inquiry in Leeds. For the purposes of data collection, the city was divided into a number of...
Games and Pastimes
1969-1976
This file comprises four photographic prints of historic European playing cards, accompanied by a photocopy of a typed key to the plates; a photocopy of Frank Weatherill's typed and ms. notes on the g...