Papers on Folk Collections, Etc.
Description
The bulk of items in this file are dated 1959-1985. The file contains leaflets, printed volumes and other items mostly concerning folk-related museums and collections. It includes Frank Atkinson's printed guide to the Folk Museum of the West Riding at Shibden Hall, Halifax (Halifax: Halifax Museums, 1953), and guidebook 'Shibden Hall: Folk Museum of West Yorkshire' (Halifax: Halifax Museums, 1971); a typed descriptive list and index for the Percy Hide Reaney Papers at Sheffield University Library (7 leaves); an article extracted from an unidentified newspaper on Marie Hartley, Joan Ingilby and their collection of Dales antiques (n.d.); a leaflet on the Craggaunowen Project at the Craggaunowen Museum, National Institute for Higher Education, Limerick; a printed guide to the Ulster Folk Museum (1965), 15 pp.; Yearbooks of the Ulster Folk Museum (1965/1966; 1969/1970; 1970/1971) and the Ulster Folk and Transport Museum (1971/1971; 1973/1974; 1976/1977; 1981/1985); a photocopy of a published guide to the Welsh Folk Museum, National Museum of Wales (ca. 1979); a review of Trefor M. Owen's 'Welsh Folk Customs' (Cardiff: National Museum of Wales, Welsh Folk Museum, 1959), extracted from the 'Times Literary Supplement' for 7 May 1959; a paper by Folke Hedblom, 'Über die Untersuchung schwedischer Mundarten und Volksüberlieferungen durch das Mundart- und Volkskundearchiv zu Uppsala' , offprinted from 'Biuletyn Fonograficzny', volume III (1960), pp. 139-149; three leaflets for the Szabadtéri Open Air Museum/ Szabadtéri Néprajzi Múzeum, Szentendre, Hungary; annual reports of the Wayne State University Folklore Archive, volume II (1969) and volume III (1970); a photocopy of a published typed paper, 'Fair Rosie and Other Sketches and Tales of New Zealand Folklife' , edited by Norman Simms (Hamilton: Waikoto Technical Institute and Outrigger Publishers Ltd., 1978), xiii, 78 pp., consisting of tales collected and written during a short course in Folk Life Studies at the Waikoto stitute; Whare Te Moana's The Marae: Guidelines for Teachers Planning a Marae Visit (Hamilton: University of Waikoto, 1978); newspaper article on English attitudes towards horse meat ( Sunday Times, 2 March 1980); newspaper article on The Armley Album, a booklet on life in Armley, Leeds, around the beginning of the 20th century ( Yorkshire Evening Post, 8 November 1980); newspaper article on the tradition of Yorkshire housewives scrubbing their doorsteps ( Yorkshire Evening Post, 11 April 1981); newspaper article on chores and games carried out by children in early 20th century Yorkshire ( Yorkshire Evening Post, 12 June 1982); copy of the West Riding Herald and Wakefield and Commercial and Agricultural Journal, no. LXII for Friday 1 July 1836; copy of The Selby Times and Howden and Goole Advertiser, no. 96 for Saturday 23 November 1861; copy of the Svenska Dagbladet, Nr. 236 for 1 September 1965, including an article on Vikings in the Faroe Islands (in Swedish).
Metadata
| Identifier | zb694z1y |
| IRN | 410509 |
| Class Mark | LAVC/FLF/1/2/2 |
| Level | File |
| Type of Record | Archives - ISAD(G) |
| Peristent Link | http://prototype1.library.leeds.ac.uk/zb694z1y |
| Collection(s) | Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture |
| Category | Archive |
| Parent Record | Miscellaneous Collections of Folklore |
| Date | 1836-1985 |
| Size and Medium | 2 files of printed, photocopied and typed papers. |