Photographs
The Gypsy Collections include hundreds of 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 Romany Vardos
Horse Fairs Music Coppersmiths' visit 1911-1914 OccupationsGypsy Lore Society
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- Canon D M M Bartlett
- Rev. George Hall at Maerdy, 1913
- William Ferguson (4th from left) with Oliver Lee, unknown, Rev. George Hall and Jas. Ferguson, Warcop, 1911
- R A Scott Macfie with E O Winstedt, Worsho Tschoron and sisters, Birkenhead, 1911. Photo: Huss-Verlag, Striegau
- John Sampson with Bernard Gilliat-Smith, [possibly Dora Yates] Rosie and Mary Lizzie Griffiths
- John Sampson
- Fred Shaw (2nd from left) with R.A. Scott Macfie, George Hall, William Ferguson and Jas. Ferguson at Warcop, 1911
Families
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- Coopers and Lees (Talaitha Cooper, wife of Wacker Cooper seated in tent), Epsom Downs, 1910
- Harry Cooper [seated, left], Dick Cooper [standing, right], Epsom Downs, June 1919
- Talaitha Cooper, née Lee, wife of Wacker Cooper, near Ascot, Berkshire June 1912
- Serey Johnson, wife of Alger Johnson, Bridlington, Yorkshire 1938
- Ithal Lee, June 1938
- Julia Lee (née Boswell), wife, and Kizzie, daughter, of Oliver Lee, Burton-in-Lonsdale, Yorkshire 1916
- Oliver Lee Willie Lee and Matthew Wood near Caernarvon, June 1914
Caravans
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- Interior of wagon used by Gypsy Lore Society members, 1916
- The Reading type of wagon at Barnet, Herts., 1921
- Heron family vardo at Brough, 1st October 1911
- Bow-topped four-wheeled tilt cart (and bender tent) at Warcop, Westmorland 1912
- German Gypsies at Clitheroe, Lancashire c.1906.
- Traditional burning of Gypsy wagon after a funeral ceremony, 1947.
Appleby and other Horse Fairs
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- Appleby Horse Fair
- Appleby Horse Fair by the river
- Barnet Fair horse-dealers, including Moses and Nelson Lee, 3rd Sept. 1922.
- Brough Fair: caravans on Brough Hill.
- Caravans at Brough Fair 30th Sept. 1911.
Music
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- `Belgian' Gypsies Carlo Basili and some of the children [with violins], Barnet, Herts, September 1921
- Lias Boswell [with violin], Derby 1910
- Job and Morenni Smith [with violin], Shenley, Herts. 1909
- Cornelius Wood [with harp]
- Cornelius, Llewellyn and Davie Wood [with fiddles made from Fry's chocolate boxes], Wales, c. 1913
'Galician' (Coppersmith) Gypsies in England
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- Galician Gypsies [1912?]
- Milos Tchóron, London, 1911
- Tínka (the chief's wife) and Lótka (wife of Andréas Tchóron), Wandsworth, August 1911
- Galician woman and child being escorted by two policemen, c. 1911
- At the Kursaal Essex, 1914
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- Mathews family hop picking in Kent, 1931
- Will Collins making clothes pegs, Blackwater Flats, near Camberley, Surrey, 1928
- Widow Rose with her basket of wares for hawking, Little Sandhurst, Kent, 1928
- Angela Collins (Lee) going hawking Blackwater Flats, near Camberley, Surrey, 1928
- Wilhelmina Heron (Young) reading a palm, Epsom Downs, Surrey, 30 May 1927
- Matthew Wood with grinding barrow, nr. Bala, Gwynedd, Wales, 1 Jun 1914
- Omi Johnson making flower stands, Lock's Bottom, Orpington, Kent, 17 Oct 1912