Collection of 29 black & white photographs and postcards retrieved from Mannal House featuring members of the MacDonald family, Catherine Campbell, Annie Campbell, Private H MacDonald, and their relations, around 1900-1930s. Some of these photos are catalogued individually (2015.40.6 – 2015.40.23).
Hand bell made from the brass casing of two artillery shells commemorating the Boer War 1900-1902. Found in Mannal House, the former home of Margaret (Meeta) MacDonald.
Newspaper cutting about an exhibition of paintings by Duncan MacGregor Whyte in Oban in 1984, including a photograph of his daughter-in-law, Mrs Ena MacGregor Whyte, at the exhibition. Duncan MacGregor Whyte was a prolific painter of Tiree scenes and Tiree people during the early 1900s, and built a studio at Balephuil.
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Hardback book ‘From Clan to Regiment – six hundred years in the Hebrides 1400-2000’ by Nicholas MacLean-Bristol, 2007. A history of the MacLeans of Coll by one of their descendents. Signed by the author to Gordon Scott, Tiree, 2012.
Photocopies of a newspaper obituary and marriage certificate for William Agnew (1862-1931) who may have been the Headmaster at Cornaig School during 1915-1922. A widower, he married his housekeeper Catherine MacDonald on the mainland in 1919 while living at the School House, Cornaigmore. Letter from his grandson John Agnew to Dr Holliday, 2015, with additional information.
Book ‘The Lighthouse on Skerryvore’ by Paul A Lynn, 2015. A comprehensive account of the engineering of the lighthouse, plus the personal background and complex personality of Alan Stevenson, its designer and builder.
Book ‘Island Memories’ by John Wilson Dougal, 1937. Compiled from a collection of papers and articles written by the author about his geological excursions around the Hebridean islands during 1905-1928.
De-accessioned 26.2.2026.
Academic paper on ‘A West Highland census of 1779: social and economic trends on the Argyll Estate’, by Eric Cregeen, published in the journal Northern Scotland 5, 2014.
Book ‘The Viking World’ by James Graham-Campbell, 2013. Authoritative update on a previous edition of the same title, based on recent archaeological research, with a new chapter on ships, shipwrights and seamen.
Book ‘The Viking Ship’ by Gareth Williams, 2014. The evolution of the design of the Vikings’ sea-going vessels, their uses and as icons.
