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Total number of records: 298

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Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture291
Cookery Collection7

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dwellings298
buildings291
architecture195
agriculture122
occupations118
nature107
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culture94
quarries and quarrying64
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Kissling, Werner (1895-1988)103
Brunk, Wille58
Sanderson, Stewart (1924-)33
Voitl, Herbert31
Davidson, H. C6
Davidson, H C6
Hucklebridge, John5
Hartley, Dorothy3
Brunk Wille3
Light, Gilbert3
Archive Item:
LAVC/PHO/S001
SED Word Map: Cowhouse
[1950s-1960s]
Experimental printed word map of the Northern Counties, completed in ms., for SED question I.1.8, Cowhouse, mapping responses (Cow)-byre, Cowhouse, Cow-stable, Mistall, and Shippon. The map was create...
Archive Item:
LAVC/PHO/P0085
Stone Cottages (Yorkshire Dales)
26 January 1967
Row of garden-fronted stone cottages in an unidentified Dales village. Mounted on Photo File card with LAVC/PHO/P0086.
Archive Item:
LAVC/PHO/P0088
Stone Cottages (Yorkshire Dales)
30 January 1967
Row of stone cottages in an unidentified Dales village. Mounted on Photo File card.
Archive Item:
LAVC/PHO/P0092
Traditional Houses, Rasinari (Romania)
December 1974
Row of traditional houses in Rasinari, a Romanian shepherds' village. The houses included a courtyard and usually a gallery, with examples of this kind of dwelling still being built in the 1960s. Man ...
Archive Item:
LAVC/PHO/P0093
Traditional House, Rasinari (Romania)
December 1974
Traditional house in Rasinari, a Romanian shepherds' village. The house is one of the oldest buildings in the village. It is a timber construction which has been plastered over on the floor level. Mou...
Archive Item:
LAVC/PHO/P0094
Side Street, Rasinari (Romania)
December 1974
View of a side street in the Romanian shepherds' village of Rasinari, showing wooden fences and wooden-frame houses. Mounted on IDFLS Photo Card with LAVC/PHO/P0095.
Archive Item:
LAVC/PHO/P0095
Side Street, Rasinari (Romania)
December 1974
View of a side street in the Romanian shepherds' village of Rasinari, showing wooden fences and wood-framed houses. Mounted on IDFLS Photo Card with LAVC/PHO/P0094.
Archive Item:
LAVC/PHO/P0096
Dwelling house at the Village Museum, Bucharest
December 1974
Example of the oldest type of Romanian dwelling house, exhibited at the open-air Village Museum in Bucharest. The house is made of timber, with a thatched roof. Mounted on Photo File card with LAVC/PH...
Archive Item:
LAVC/PHO/P0097
Dwelling house at the Village Museum, Bucharest
December 1974
Example of a dwelling house typical of Gorj Hobita, the birthplace of the sculptor Brancusi, exhibited at the open-air Village Museum in Bucharest. The house is made of timber. Mounted on Photo File c...
Archive Item:
LAVC/PHO/P0099
Samuel Street, Leeds
July 1961
View of Samuel Street, Leeds (West Yorkshire). Shows partly-demolished derelict terraced housing; rubble; removal vans; and high-rise blocks in background. Mounted on Photo File card.
Archive Item:
LAVC/PHO/P0100
Demolition at Virginia Road, Leeds
18 June 1964
Demolition work in progress in the area around Virginia Road, Leeds (West Yorkshire). The spired building to the left of the image is the Clothworkers' Centenary Concert Hall, University of Leeds. Mou...
Archive Item:
LAVC/PHO/P0101
Demolition at Virginia Road, Leeds
18 June 1964
Demolition work in progress in the area around Virginia Road, Leeds (West Yorkshire). Crane to right of image. Mounted on Photo File card with LAVC/PHO/P0100 and LAVC/PHO/P0102.