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Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture41
Brotherton Collection2
Medieval Manuscripts1
Novello Cowden Clarke Collection1

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animals43
nature41
occupations36
agriculture34
community life18
food14
buildings11
culture10
vehicles10
english language - dialects8

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Kissling, Werner (1895-1988)19
Liman, Ingemar (1938-)4
Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)2
Horner, Will2
Upton, Clive S2
Brown, Isaac1
Caunce, Stephen1
Clarke, William1
Denning, Mr1
Hartley, Dorothy1

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Milking by Hand / Back Can
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Milking by Hand / Back Can

Kissling, Werner (1895-1988)

September 1967

Mr. Will Horner wearing a back can for carrying milk, on his farm, Redmire ( Wensleydale). Mr. Horner's son can be seen in the background, milking a cow by hand underneath an open shelter. Mounted on ...

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Milking by Hand / Back Can
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Milking by Hand / Back Can

Kissling, Werner (1895-1988)

September 1967

Mr. Will Horner wearing a back can for carrying milk, on his farm, Redmire ( Wensleydale). Mr. Horner's son can be seen in the background, milking a cow by hand underneath an open shelter. Mounted on ...

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Suffolk Cart

[1970s]

View from the side of a Suffolk cart, with front and back partially opened, harnessed to a horse. Other carts are visible in the background.

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Appleby Horse Fair: Pony

Caunce, Stephen

June 1972

Boy on the back of a pony which is for sale, at Appleby Horse Fair, Appleby (Cumbria). Mounted on Photo File card with LAVC/PHO/P1609.

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Farm Cart Aquatint

[1970s]

Photograph of an aquatint illustration by William Pyne, of a view from the back of two farmworkers unloading a basket from a farm cart drawn by a single horse. An old woman stoops next to the cart. Th...

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"Gypsy Camp"

Hartley, Dorothy

[1970s]

Copy of a photograph taken ca. 1920 at a Gypsy Traveller camp at an unknown (English) location. A hare has been hung from a tree by its back legs and will be eaten later. Mounted on Photo File card.

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Small sketchbook with maroon cover

c, 1825

Small undated sketchbook belonging to Edward Petre Novello, with maroon leather covers and a metal clasp. It contains life drawings, character studies, drawings after existing paintings and sculptures...

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Gathering Sheep for Shearing: Apedale
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Gathering Sheep for Shearing: Apedale

Kissling, Werner (1895-1988)

August 1965

Sheep being driven from the Apedale fells over a stone bridge, towards a large stone sheep fold to await shearing, by a shepherd working with his dogs. Sheep dogs visible at back of herd, rounding up ...

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Old Sheep Washing Place: Outgang Beck
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Old Sheep Washing Place: Outgang Beck

Liman, Ingemar (1938-)

June 1965

Dam construction across Outgang Beck at Thornton Rust ( Wensleydale). The dam holds back the flow of water from the beck to create a washpool for sheep washing. One of a strip of 6 contact prints.

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Farmworker and Horse

[1970s]

Copy of a photograph dating from the turn of the 19th/20th century, of a farmworker (possibly the farm foreman) with a horse at a farm in Thixendale (North Yorkshire). The horse wears a Scotch collar ...

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Farm Lad with Horse

[1970s]

Copy of a photograph dating from the turn of the 19th/20th century, of a young farm lad with a horse at a farm in Thixendale (North Yorkshire). The horse wears a plain English collar and is harnessed ...

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Sheep-Shearing: Apedale
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Sheep-Shearing: Apedale

Kissling, Werner (1895-1988)

July 1967

Swaledale sheep in a sheep fold/pen, some shorn and others awaiting shearing, Apedale (North Yorkshire). A shearer can be seen throwing wound fleeces into the back of a truck. Mounted on Photo File ca...

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