Studio photograph of an unknown woman in the late 1800s, probably of the MacDonald/Campbell/Brown family of Mannal. From an album found in Mannal House.
2015.55.9
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Dates: 1900s
2015.55.8
Studio photograph of an unknown young man in the late 1800s, probably of the MacDonald/Campbell/Brown family of Mannal. From an album found in Mannal House.
2015.55.7
Studio photograph of an unknown woman in the late 1800s, probably of the MacDonald/Campbell/Brown family of Mannal. From an album found in Mannal House.
2015.55.6
Studio photograph of an unknown young man in uniform in the late 1800s, probably of the MacDonald/Campbell/Brown family of Mannal. From an album found in Mannal House.
2015.55.3
Ornate, leather-bound photograph album with brass clasp containing 21 formal portraits of the MacDonald/Campbell family, relatives and friends, from the late 1800s, plus one of the gravestone of Archibald Campbell and a memorial card with photo of Archibald Campbell, who died in 1899. No other information is available. From a collection from Mannal House. The photos are accessioned separately (see 2015.55.4 to 2015.55.19; V192-9 & W100-7).
2015.65.2
Two DVDs (part 1 and part 2) of a Channel 4 documentary ‘Edgeland’, produced in 1986, about new crofting legislation, the Crofters Commission and the future and history of crofting in the Highlands and islands. Topics include the Crofters’ War, peat cutting, mussel and salmon farming, fishing, forestry, the Cruachan Dam, the Invergordon smelter and the Outer Hebrides.
Part 1 includes footage of Tiree and interviews with local crofters Alec MacArthur, Heylipol, and Alastair MacInnes, Ruaig, and one with Peter Fairweather, the factor for Argyll Estates. With scenes of Balephetrish, hay-making, sheep shearing, a sheep sale at the old auction mart at Crossapol Farm, Balemartine, the airport, plane and fire service, Balephuil and Ruaig.
2015.63.1
Extract from book The Tiree Bards / Na Baird Tirisdeach about the Balephuil fishing disaster of 1856. One boat belonged to Donald MacLean of Cheann-na-Creige at the south end of Traigh Bhi, Balephuil, where The Studio now stands. Plus some information about Ceit Chalein (Katie Dubh) of Am Bail’ Ur who helped Donald MacLean while his house was being built.
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2015.62.1
Academic paper ‘The creation of the crofting townships in Tiree’ by Eric Cregeen. Edited by Annie Tindley and published in the Journal of Scottish Historical Studies, Edinburgh University Press, 2015. Courtesty of EUP Blog www.euppublishing.com/doi/abs/10.3366/jshs.2015.0153
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2015.61.1
Printed email from Archie Johnstone in response to an article about second sight on Tiree, 2015.
Extract: “My father’s mother was a great believer of 2nd sight. In 1916, he awoke and said to his mother that her brother Ian [John] was dead. She immediately went into mourning. Eight weeks later it was confirmed that he had been killed in action. The family home was no. 6 in Upper Vaul. Father was born in 1899 … His mother was Mary Flora Mackinnon and she married Thomas Johnstone and lived in Chapelhall. They had 4 children: Catherine Tommy Archie and Maxwell.”
2015.49.1
Hardback book ‘The Great Book of Skye’ by Norman MacDonald and Cailean MacLean, 2014. An extensive study of the people of Skye spanning 200 years. Includes a few Tiree people who moved to Skye. See 2017.17.1 for the second volume of this work.