Black & white photograph of a man and woman with two small children standing on a beach in the 1910s. Note the battleships in the background. From a collection of photographs from Mannal House.
2015.40.12
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Dates: 1910s
2015.40.11
Black & white photograph of the view outside the shop in Scarinish around the 1910s. From a collection of photographs from Mannal House.
2015.40.10
Black and white postcard photograph of uniformed naval officers seated around a table, presumably in the officers’ mess of a ship, around the 1930s. From a collection of photographs from Mannal House.
2015.40.8
Black and white postcard photograph of a wooden cross in a WWI graveyard with the inscription “In memory of 1046 Pte. H. McDonald, A. COY., 15th HLI., died of wounds 26-8-16”. From a collection of photographs from Mannal House.
2015.40.7
Black & white portrait photograph on a postcard, of a soldier in uniform during WWI. On the reverse it reads “To Auntie Katie from Jack I am send you to difernt ones I thought you might like to see him in full uniform he has gone to the front from Annie Campbell”. From a collection of photographs from Mannal House. The soldier may be Private H. MacDonald, who died in action in 1916.
2015.40.5
Cardboard box (‘spiced beef and tongue’) containing two lumps of hardened yellowish-brown wax found in Mannal House. Probably whale blubber, which would have had various domestic and croft uses, e.g. preservation of leather harness.
2015.40.4
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).
2015.40.3
Black & white photograph of a bi-plane named the ‘Tirisdeach’, which was funded by the “war savings of the natives of Tiree” during WWI. Found in Mannal House, the former home of Margaret (Meeta) MacDonald.
2015.40.2
Decorative brass tray/dish commemorating WWI and depicting a uniformed soldier in action. Found in Mannal House, former home of Margaret (Meeta) MacDonald.
2015.37.1
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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