Orton Corpus
Description
Manuscript and typescript items relating to the Survey of Northumbrian Dialects conducted by Harold Orton during his time at Armstrong College, Newcastle-upon-Tyne. These items include fieldwork and research into the dialects of 34 localities chiefly in Northumberland, and including some in Durham and Tyne and Wear. There is also a small collection of correspondence relating to research undertaken on the Orton Corpus after Orton's death and the closure of the Institute of Dialect and Folk Life Studies.
Metadata
| Identifier | j3537829 |
| IRN | 409332 |
| Class Mark | LAVC/COR |
| Level | Sub-collection |
| Type of Record | Archives - ISAD(G) |
| Peristent Link | http://prototype1.library.leeds.ac.uk/j3537829 |
| Collection(s) | Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture |
| Category | Archive |
| Parent Record | Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture, (Survey of English Dialects, and the Institute of Dialect and Folk Life Studies) |
| Creator(s) | Orton, Harold |
| Date | 1928-2003 |
| Size and Medium | 1 box of ms. notes and typescript correspondence; 10 boxes of ms. index cards; 18 wooden drawers of ms. index cards; 10 student theses., 5.38 linear metres. |
| System of Arrangement | The subfonds has been arranged in the following four series: - Raw Material - Armstrong College Theses - Index Cards - Rydland Correspondence |