Colour photograph of quilt from Silversands.
Quilt from Silversands photographed in 1978-9, `Turkey red` material dated around 1880-1900. See T44 for back of quilt.
2002.83.1
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Dates: 1880s
2002.78.6
Newspaper cutting about the crofters` rebellion on Tiree in 1886.
Article about the arrest of eight Tiree crofters in 1886 for seizing a farm at Greenhill.
2000.10.20
Book `Finlay MacQueen of St Kilda` by W. R. Mitchell.
Biography of Finlay MacQueen (1862 – 1941) from St Kilda. Includes chapters on St Kilda`s cragsmen, crofting, kirk, school, visitors, wartime experience, and evacuation in 1930.
2000.10.2
Book `George Washington Wilson in the Hebrides` by Donald MacAulay.
Photographs dating from c. 1870 to 1908 portraying the Hebrides through landscape, ships, buildings, people and their activities. Detailed commentary explaining building features, activities, clothes etc
De-accessioned 1.3.2026.
2000.10.28.1
Biographical and artistic information about artists Mary Barnard and Duncan MacGregor Whyte of Oban and Balephuil.
Bound book extracts about Duncan MacGregor Whyte and his wife Mary Barnard from the `Dictionary of Scottish Art & Architecture` by Peter J.M. McEwan , pp 63, 605 and `The Royal Scottish Academy Exhibition 1826-1990` edited by Charles Baile de Laperriere, p 420. Includes a list of works exhibited by Duncan MacGregor Whyte. DMcGW built The Studio at Balephuil and painted many scenes and portraits of Tiree.
2002.76.1
Scan of title page of book `The Subordinate Standards and Other Authoritative Documents of the Free Church of Scotland`.
Inscribed with `John Brown 1886`.
2002.67.1
Colour scan of brass plate.
Colour scan of brass plate from the Glassary seaweed factory cart engraved `NORTH BRITISH CHEMICAL CO. LD. TYREE NO. 1`.
1997.170.5
Black & white photograph of Neil MacLaine and his wife Catherine MacFadyen in their Highland finery. The ‘Bard’, as Neil MacLaine was familiarly known, was at the forefront of the Celtic movement in Glasgow from the late 1890s until his death in 1925.
Courtesy of Mrs Mairi Campbell
The Bard had a gift for telling humerous Gaelic stories and reciting his own compositions. He regularly attended meetings of the Clan MacLean, Tiree Association and Ceilidh nan Gaidheal and was a vice-president in each of these societies.
Born in Caoles in 1851, he went to Glasgow at an early age to become apprenticed to the joinery trade. Apart from four years spent in the Kimberley Diamond Fields in South Africa, he remained in the city until his death in 1919.
2002.56.1
Black and white photograph previously attributed to Donald MacFadyen, Scarinish (b. 29/4/1852). Now attributed to his brother John MacFadyen (b. 2/10/1833, emigrated to Australia)
Previously attributed to Donald MacFadyen (b. 1852), storekeeper in Scarinish, son of Allan MacPhaiden and Amelia Stewart.
1997.85.1
Photocopied petition to the Duke of Argyll from the widow of Donald MacArthur, Caoles, 1887.
Petition asking for a reduction in rent for a low-lying croft in Caoles and statinng that the petitioner has not attended any Land League meetings or applied to the Crofters Commission.