Photocopied extract `The history of the seaweed industry: the iodine industry` by Ernest Booth.
The history of the iodine industry and its medical applications.
2000.183.2
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Dates: 1900s
2000.183.3
Photocopied extract `The history of the seaweed industry: a miscellany of industries` by Ernest Booth.
The history of seaweed industry and the uses of agar, carrageen, feeding stuff and fertilisers.
2000.49.1
Black and white photograph of Robert Bruce Webster 1892-1959.
Robert Bruce Webster (1892-1959), a Scottish watercolourist whose principal productive period lay between the early 1920s and the 1950s. For examples of his work in Tiree, see photographs E85-E91.
2000.49.2
Biographical notes about established artist Robert Bruce Webster (1892-1959) who had a home at Balephetrish. Composed by his son, Randolf Webster, in 2000.
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1998.176.26
Black and white photograph of Scarinish harbour.
Smack moored in Scarinish harbour with the hotel in the backgound. The smack would bring provisions for the Scarinish shop and was captained by Donald MacLean, who later owned the Mary Stewart.
1998.176.28
Black and white photograph of Maggie MacEachern and Christina MacLean.
L-R: Maggie MacEachern of Cornaigbeg and her cousin Christina MacLean, probably taken at the end of the 19th century,
1998.174.1
Black and white postcard of Am Bail`Ur / The New Village, Balephuil, around 1900.
Postcard of Bail`Ur, Balephuil around 1900. Houses L-R: Taigh Iain Bhlac (his first thatched house at present-day cattle-grid); Taigh Iain ’ic Dhòmhnaill Mhòir (MacDonald); Taigh Mòr an Tuathanaich / Dhomhnaill Mhic Nèill (MacNeill); Taigh Nèill Òig / Chaluim Nèill Òig (Sinclair); Taigh Dhonnchaidh Mhurchaidh (Campbell); Bùth Iain ‘ic Dhòmhnaill Mhòir (MacDonald); Taigh Sheumais Bhàin (MacDonald); Taigh Fhearchair/Taigh Chailein Fhearchair (MacDonald); Taigh MhacÀidh (Mackay) / Ealasdair Iain Mhòir / a’ Ghreusaiche (MacArthur); Taigh Màiri Bheag; Taigh Ealasdair Bhrùin (Brown); Bùth/Taigh Ealasdair Lachainn (Mackinnon); Taigh Dhòmhnaill ‘ic Lachainn (Mackinnon); Taigh Chlèabhair (John Kennedy); Taigh na Coinneimh / Balephuil Mission House; Taigh Chaluim Nèill (Brown); Taigh Ghilleasbaig Chaimbeil (Campbell)
Amendments to house names provided by Ailean Boyd, Balephuil.
1998.156.15
Black and white photograph of Lachlan Lamont of Ruaig, his wife Mary and his two children.
Lachlan Lamont (Lachann Iain) of Ruaig, his second wife Mary from Ireland and his two children by his first wife, Morag and Donald, around 1909.
2000.232.1
Postcard album dated 24/10/1903.
Postcard album dated 24/10/1903 containing 95 postcards found in Jim MacLeod`s house in Heylipol.
1998.225.1
Two foot plates from Lady Victoria Campbell`s buckboard. The buckboard was a simple, open horse-drawn carriage. The foot plates hung at the sides of the carriage, to assist passengers stepping aboard.
