Photographs
The Scott Macfie Gypsy Collections include photographs of Gypsies in various countries, with an emphasis on Britain 1900 - 1940. Photos by Gypsy Lore Society members Fred Shaw (d. 1940) and Ivor Evans (1886-1957) have contemporary captions.
Copyright: Gypsy Lore Society collections, University of Liverpool unless stated otherwise.
Index to a representative selection of GLS photographs:
GLS Families Caravans
Horse Fairs Music Occupations Coppersmiths' visit 1911-1914Gypsy Lore Society
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- Canon D M M Bartlett
- Rev. George Hall at Maerdy, 1913
- William Ferguson. SMGC Shaw PC.2
- R A Scott Macfie with E O Winstedt, Worsho Tschoron and sisters, Birkenhead, 1911. Photo: Huss-Verlag, Striegau
- John Sampson
Families
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- Coopers and Lees (Talaitha Cooper, wife of Wacker Cooper seated in tent), Epsom Downs, 1910. SMGC Shaw P.11
- William Jones (Cloggy Bill) and family, Epsom Downs, 1908. SMGC Shaw P.2
- Ithal Lee, June 1938. SMGC Shaw P.274
- Julia Lee (née Boswell), wife, and Kizzie, daughter, of Oliver Lee, Burton-in-Lonsdale, Yorkshire 1916. SMGC Shaw P.137
Caravans
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- The Reading type of wagon at Barnet, Herts., 1921. SMGC Shaw P.167
- Heron family vardo at Brough, 1st October 1911. SMGC Shaw P.31
- Bow-topped four-wheeled tilt cart (and bender tent) at Warcop, Westmorland 1912. SMGC Shaw PA.3
Horse Fairs
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- Barnet Fair horse-dealers, including Moses and Nelson Lee, 3rd Sept. 1922. SMGC Shaw P.182
- Barnet Fair: Nelson and Nancy Lee. SMGC Shaw P.183
- Caravans at Brough Fair 30th Sept. 1911. SMGC Shaw P.28
Music
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- `Belgian' Gypsies Carlo Basili and some of the children [with violins], Barnet, Herts, September 1921. SMGC Shaw P.170
- Lias Boswell [with violin], Derby 1910. SMGC Shaw P.022
- Job and Morenni Smith [with violin], Shenley, Herts. 1909. SMGC Shaw P.3
- Cornelius, Llewellyn and Davie Wood [with fiddles made from Fry's chocolate boxes], Wales, c. 1913
Occupations
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- Mathews family hop picking in Kent, 1931. SMGC Evans PJ.56
- Will Collins making clothes pegs, Blackwater Flats, near Camberley, Surrey, 1928. SMGC Evans PJ.11
- Widow Rose with her basket of wares for hawking, Little Sandhurst, Kent, 1928. SMGC Shaw PJ.5
- Angela Collins (Lee) going hawking Blackwater Flats, near Camberley, Surrey, 1928. SMGC Shaw PJ.8
- Wilhelmina Heron (Young) reading a palm, Epsom Downs, Surrey, 30 May 1927. SMGC Shaw P.232
'Galician' (Coppersmith) Gypsies in England
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- Galician Gypsy women preparing food, Wandsworth 28 Aug 1911. SMGC Shaw P.49
- Jean Filipoff, Whitechapel, 26 April 1914. SMGC Shaw P.91
- Yipunka Koudakoff, Whitechapel, 17 May 1914. SMGC Shaw P.98
- At the Kursaal, Essex, 1914. SMGC Shaw P.106