Portable gramophone from around 1930
`Alba` portable gramophone record player, model 505, in a brown leather-clad wooden box with hinged lid and leather carrying handle. Includes spare needle and a gramophone record of `Royal Belfast Hornpipe`.
Book `The Yellow on the Broom`, 1979
Softback book by Betsy Whyte relating the memoirs of a young traveller woman in Perthshire, as well as telling of the lore and customs of Travelling people.
Book ` The Summer Walkers`, 1996
Softback book about the origins of Scotland`s travelling people, their stories, poetry, songs, customs, superstitions and secret `cover tongue`.
Postcard to Bob Petrie, Scarinish Hotel, 1975
Handwritten letter on a blank postcard to Bob Petrie, owner of the Scarinish Hotel, on 15th Jan. 1975, from Duncan M Mellis, regarding an enclosed old postcard of a line drawing of the hotel around 1906 (photo K2).
Photograph of Mary MacDonald, traveller, around 2003
Colour photograph of Mary MacDonald who was a traveller. She came regularly to Tiree as a young woman with her mother `Cleamag`. Original stored in filing cabinet 10 drawer 1.
Photograph of Jessey MacNeil, Balevullin, ca 1900
Sepia portrait photograph of Jessey MacNeil, Balevullin, around 1900. From a collection of photographs from the house of Ellen Kennedy (nee Eilidh MacNeil), Balevullin.
Photograph of Jean MacNeil, Balevullin, ca 1900
Sepia portrait photograph of Jean MacNeil, Balevullin, around 1900. From a collection of photographs from the house of Ellen Kennedy (nee Eilidh MacNeil), Balevullin.
Photograph of “wee Charlie” ca 1930
Black & white photograph of “wee Charlie” in his perambulator around 1930. Also on the reverse of the photo: “George took it in the back court”. From a collection of photographs from the house of Ellen Kennedy (nee Eilidh MacNeil), Balevullin.
Photograph of Mrs & Mrs MacNeill, Balevullin, or Mr & Mrs Bald, Balephuil, ca 1920.
Black & white photograph of either the parents of Ellen Kennedy (nee Eilidh MacNeill), Balevullin, or the foster parents (Bald) of Nan MacClounnan, Balephuil. Original stored in 2014.5.1 filing cabinet 10 drawer 1.
Photograph of Taigh Catriona Beag, ca. 1950
Black and white photograph of Taigh Catriona Beag (Small Catriona`s house) around 1950. This house is unusual in that it has dormer windows in a hip-ended roof. Original stored in 2014.5.1 filing cabinet 10 drawer 1.
