Book `A Grammar of the Portuguese Language` by Alfred Elwes.
Portuguese grammar inscribed `James Guy S.S. Jacu . . .Port Glasgow Feb, 3 1885`.
1997.226.25
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Dates: 1880s
1997.226.46
Business card for Samuel & George Pascoe.
Business card for Samuel & George Pascoe of South Shields who owned steam water boats, fire engines and slavage appliances.
1999.18.1
Photocopied extract from the Parish of Heylipol Kirk Session Minute Book 1880-1894, Vol I, pp 1-59.
Minutes of the meeting od Heylipol Kirk Session between 21/4/1880 and 22/7/1894.
2002.193.6
Paperback book `Old Skye tales` by William MacKenzie.
William Mackenzie (1851-1935) records local legends, folklore and superstition, the changes he saw in agriculture, education, the Church and emigration and recounts the history of Skye`s leading families and also the lives and experiences of crofters for whose rights he actively campaigned in the 1880s.
2002.180.1
Transcript of documents found in the Ontario Archives in 1958.
A number of accounts of families who settled in Ontario in the 19th century.
1998.153.1.1
Audio cassette recording of (a) the opening ceremony at Tur Mhic Chaluim and (b) Hugh MacDonald, Kenovay recorded by Margaret MacKay of the School of Scottish Studies.
Audio recording of Side A – the opening ceremony at Tur Mhic Chaluim on 26/7/1986 with introduction by Alec MacArthur, Ronald MacDonald of Cornaigbeg talking about 19th century emigration, Neil Brownlie and Prof. Donald Meek talking about the Rev. Donald MacCallum, and Hugh Archie MacLean of Salum talking about the way forward for crofters today, Side B – The late Hugh MacDonald of Kenovay talks to Margaret MacKay of the School of Scottish Studies about his piping days.
1999.17.3
Photocopied extract from unknown publication about Free Church ministers serving on Tiree.
Information about the Free Church and its ministers on Tiree from 1853.
1999.17.1
Two photocopied extracts from Volume III of the evidence taken by the Napier Commission, pp 2128-82.
One bound and one unbound transcript of the evidence given by the crofters and cottars in Tiree.
2001.84.18
Black and white photograph of unknown woman.
Unknown woman photographed at the end of 19th beginning of the 20th century.
2001.84.19
Black and white photograph of Hugh Kennedy and his family.
Hugh Kennedy of Glasgow, his wife, Maggie, and their children, Thomas, Morag and Hugh.
