Hardback book `Adventurers & Exiles` by Marjory Harper.
Comprehensive account of the `Great Exodus` in the century before WWI when two million men women and children left Scotland for a new life overseas.
2004.13.3
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Dates: 1870s
2004.13.4
Hardback book `The Tea Clippers` by David R. MacGregor.
Illustrated history of the tea clippers from 1833-1875.
2001.17.6
Essay in Gaelic by Niall Brownlie about John MacLean, the Balemartine bard.
Essay by Niall Brownlie about John MacLean, the Balemartine bard, 1827-1895.
2001.16.5
Family Group Record for Martin MacPhaiden (1802-1855), his wife Janet Currie and their seven children.
Family Group Record for Martin MacPhaiden (1802-1855), his wife Janet Currie (1803-1860) and their seven children: Donald (b. 1824), Mary (b. 1827), John (b. 1829), Catharene (b. 1831), Niel (b. 1833), George (b. 1840) and Archibald (b. 1844). George emigrated to New Zealand prior to his marriage in 1877.
2001.17.7
Bound copy of a translation into English by Niall Brownlie of his essay about John MacLean, the Balemartine bard.
2001.111.1
Audio cassette recording of Hugh MacLeod, Cornaigbeg, talking to Maggie Campbell on 19/6/2001.
Hugh MacLeod of Cornaigbeg talks to Maggie Campbell in June 2001 about Charles and Archie (Èairdsidh Tuairnear) MacLean of Cornaigmore, where Archie lived, his work as a wood turner, the equipment he used and the furniture, spinning wheels and coffins he made; Hugh also talks about Garaphail, Lag na Gruachan, Druimbuidhe and Whitehouse farms.
1997.325.1
Ship`s wheel from the schooner `Mary Stewart`, the remains of which are still visible in Scarinish Harbour.
1999.327.1
Cheese press with iron screw set into a stone base approximately 580 x 500 x 180 mm used to press cheese in a vat to extract the liquid. (Given to donor by Donald MacLean, Ardbeg.) Similar to the one shown in photograph X34
2000.152.2
Photocopied article about the history of the seaweed industry by Ernest Booth.
Article about Edward Curtis-Stanford and the iodine industry.
2003.177.8
Photocopied account of the discovery of alginic acid by Edward Curtis-Stanford.
Biography of Edward Curtis-Stanford, his discovery of alginic acid and an account of the processes used at the Middleton seaweed factory.