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Total number of records: 56

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Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture51
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Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)35
Liman, Ingemar (1938-)9
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Archive File:
LAVC/SED/2/2/11
1954-1956
Response books, completed in ms. phonetic script, recording the answers of informants from Survey of English Dialects (SED) localities in Salop (now known as Shropshire) to the Dieth-Orton Questionnai...
Archive File:
LAVC/SED/2/2/5
1952-1955
Response books, completed in ms. phonetic script, recording the answers of informants from Survey of English Dialects (SED) localities in Lancashire to the Dieth-Orton Questionnaire. Responses were re...
Archive Item:
LAVC/PHO/S008
[1950s-1960s]
Printed map, completed in ms., showing the areas worked in by SED fieldworkers Stanley Ellis, Peter Wright, Donald Sykes, Peter Gibson and John T. Wright. At the stage the map was produced, fieldwork ...
Archive Item:
LAVC/PHO/S009
[1950s-1960s]
Printed map, completed in ms., showing the network of localities in which fieldwork was to be undertaken for the SED. The map is headed, The Skeleton Network, and shows Selected Localities (i.e. local...
Archive Item:
LAVC/PHO/S010
[Mid 1950s-1960s]
Printed map, completed in ms., mapping SED localities investigated up to 30 November 1955. The map is headed English Dialect Survey in ms., and was created by Harold Orton.
Archive Item:
LAVC/PHO/S022
[Mid 1950s-1960s]
Page from an SED fieldwork notebook completed in ms. by Stanley Ellis. The page includes responses from informant Jack Hepple of Haltwhistle (Northumberland), recorded on 11 March 1953, to sections II...
Archive Item:
LAVC/PHO/P0519
June 1967
Horse breaking bits on display at Ryedale Folk Museum, Hutton-le-Hole (North Yorkshire). Mounted on Photo File card. Ms. catalogue details in the hand of Wille Brunk.
Archive Item:
LAVC/PHO/P0637
June 1965
Stewart Sanderson and Werner Kissling at old sheep washing place on Outgang Beck at Thornton Rust ( Wensleydale). Sanderson is taking film. Kissling stands with his camera. One of a strip of 6 contact...
Archive Item:
LAVC/PHO/P0656
June 1965
Stanley Ellis sitting in the open boot of a car with equipment used for tape recording sheep washing on Outgang Beck at Thornton Rust ( Wensleydale). Stewart Sanderson (filming) and Werner Kissling vi...
Archive Item:
LAVC/PHO/P0661
June 1965
Farmers' wives and others gathered around the open boot of a car to look at equipment being used for tape recording sheep washing on Outgang Beck at Thornton Rust ( Wensleydale). One of a strip of fou...
Archive Item:
LAVC/PHO/P0663
June 1965
Farmers' wives and others gathered around the open boot of a car to look at equipment being used for tape recording sheep washing on Outgang Beck at Thornton Rust ( Wensleydale). One of a strip of fou...
Archive Item:
LAVC/PHO/P0691
June 1965
Sheep washing on Outgang Beck at Thornton Rust ( Wensleydale). View from inside the fold of a farmer climbing out of the washpool, and heading towards Werner Kissling, who is taking photographs from t...