PHOTOGRAPHS : L-SERIES

Object Name: Photographic negative
Date Made: 06/1974
06/1974
Description: Black and white image from the L Series collection of a group of Christmas rhymers at Vine Cash, Ballintaggart, Co. Armagh, Christmas 1936. Christmas rhymers were local people who dressed up as different characters, while disguised, and performed a play or danced. Negative copied from original from donor in 1974. Donor's note states that he saw the Christmas Rhymers as they presented themselves to the McCanns of Vine Cash, Ballytaggart, on Christmas Eve. They agreed to come back on the following day to be photographed. The L Series (L for the Ulster Folk Museum's first photographer, Lyttle) is a collection of archive images, often showing behind the scenes work, eg. erection of exhibit buildings on site, workshops or general images of collections and landscapes.
Materials: 12 Negatives
Catalogue Number: HOYFM.L680.5

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