Slides
Description
The photographic collections at the Institute of Dialect and Folk Life Studies (IDFLS) include over 900 individual slides acquired and created by members of staff, including Harold Orton, Stewart Sanderson, Wille Brunk and Trevor Faulkner (former member of staff at the Workshop Theatre, School of English). The slides include large glass plate slides, lantern slides, small glass slides, and modern slide formats, and amount to over 900 individual items. The subject matter depicted consists of two main areas: linguistic maps, and photographic images relating to folk life and traditional culture. The majority of the linguistic maps reflect the paper-based maps held in subfonds LAVC/MAP and LAVC/LAE/1/3. These maps are experimental in nature, and were probably produced with the aim of publishing a Linguistic Atlas of England. They are largely either lexical or phonological, and are all based on responses collected for the Survey of English Dialects (SED). These SED-related maps are accompanied by slides of printer's pages and copy relating to the SED editorial programme, and of pages and text from the published SED questionnaire and Basic Material volumes. In addition to the SED-related maps are a number of slides of maps and figures copied from published works relating to the development of the English language. The slides of photographic images relate to a variety of subject areas. They include slide copies of some photographs contained in the Photo File, including images of salmon fishing on the River Nith; sheep washing at Thornton Rust; gathering sheep for shearing in Apedale; Wille Brunk's photographs of Cleveland Bay horses and horse equipment and tackle; the Cottingley fairies; cruck-framed buildings and vernacular architecture at the Ryedale Folk Museum; Wille Brunk's photographs of blacksmith Eric Snaith and his shop; drawings of Lincolnshire folk drama characters (as held at LAVC/NSP/47); and images of Gypsy Traveller communities acquired from the Museum of English Rural life at Reading. The subject matter of slides not duplicating images from the Photo File includes Swedish vernacular architecture (including buildings at open-air museums); Swedish wall paintings; Norwegian textiles; the cities of Bergen (Norway) and Oslo (Sweden); the Faroese landscape and fishing boats; dry stone walls; cow stalls; brass bands; the Yorkshire landscape and vernacular architecture; and old images of Dales life. Additionally there are a number of slides connected with undergraduate dissertations by Ian McNay (ropemaking in Castleton (Derbyshire), ropework items and the Canal Museum at Stoke Bruerne, and harvesting and hay ropemaking on the Lleyn Peninsular); Lesley Witton (rag-and-bone carts in Leeds); and Dorothy Nott (the Up-Helly-Aa festival).
Metadata
| Identifier | jcbtlss7 |
| IRN | 413118 |
| Class Mark | LAVC/PHO/S |
| Level | Series |
| Type of Record | Archives - ISAD(G) |
| Peristent Link | http://prototype1.library.leeds.ac.uk/jcbtlss7 |
| Collection(s) | Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture |
| Category | Archive |
| Parent Record | Photographic Collections |
| Date | [1950s-1970s] |
| Size and Medium | 930 slides in 7 boxes and 2 slide cases., 0.6 linear metres. |
| System of Arrangement | The slides have been arranged in order of size, with the larger glass lantern slides catalogued first. Aside from this arrangement, the slides have largely been catalogued in the order in which they were found. Some of the slides had previously been grouped through the application of coloured tape (in the case of glass slides), marking codes and coloured stickers. The arrangement of these groupings has been retained as far as possible. Where a group of slides consists of SED-related subject matter (word maps, for example), the slide group has been arranged by SED question number. The order of the slides from the green slide cabinet has been retained. |