A magic lantern with 14 glass slides
A magic lantern – an early type of image projector
With 14 glass slides, including pictures, bible texts and hymns
These were widely used until the 1950s when superseded by 35mm slide projectors
A lantern (possibly this one) was used at the Baptist Sunday-schools and Temperance meetings in Tiree.
From a collection of items from a byre in Brock
A 6ft (180cm) pit saw blade
Pit saws were used to cut planks from tree trunks, for house and boat building. The “pit” in Brock would have been a hollow in the sand dunes. The log was placed horizontally across the pit or frame and the saw was usually operated by two men: a top-man above and a pit-man guiding the saw from below. This may have been a one-man saw
With the absence of local sawmills the use of pit saws would have continued long into the 1800s and possibly even the 1900s
Digitised Plan of the Farm of Kenavay [sic] In the Island of Tyrii, now divided into Thirteen Farms nearly to four Male Land each Surveyed and Divided By Geo[rge] Langlands, 1802.
Contains a map of Kenovay with houses and a table of Acres in each Division. The table records Arable Ground in rotation of Crops, Arable & past[ure] aloted [sic] for Grassing, Acres in each Farm or division, as well as for the Reef keeper’s croft.
From the archives of the Dukes of Argyll at Inveraray Castle.
Digitised Plan of the Farm of Ballimartin [sic] in the Island of Tirii divided into Crofts, by Geo[rge] Langlands, 1802.
The plan shows houses and crofts in Balemartine. Contains a table headed ‘Collection of Acres’, listing Arable Ground, Pasture some rocks & Improvable Ground, Moss, Acres in each Croft, as well as recording Cow pasture, and Horse pasture.
From the archives of the Dukes of Argyll at Inveraray Castle.
Photographed copy of a map of Tiree, showing the number of tenants in 1848.
The map is a colour copy of Turnbull’s map of Tiree (1768-1769). Numbers of tenants in 1848 have been added in pencil.
From the archives of the Dukes of Argyll at Inveraray Castle.
From a collection of photographs from Port Ban, Caolas.
Pencilled on the reverse of the photo: ‘Young’ Danina MacCallum
Danina at a hay stook
From a collection of photographs from Port Ban, Caolas.
Danina “Bheag”
Danina MacCallum
From a collection of photographs from Port Ban, Caolas.
Danina “Bheag”
Danina MacCallum
From a collection of photographs from Port Ban, Caolas.
Danina “Bheag” Danina MacCallum
Hardbacked edition of ‘A Thirst for Empire: How Tea Shaped the Modern World’, by Erika Rappaport. Published in 2017 by Princeton University Press. 409pp with black and white photographs.
‘A Thirst for Empire takes a vast and in-depth historical look at how men and women – through the tea industry in Europe, Asia, North America, and Africa – transformed global tastes and habits and in the process created our modern consumer society. […] An expansive and orginal global history of imperial tea, A Thirst for Empire demonstrates the ways that this fluid and powerful enterprise helped shape the contemporary world.’
