Authority to wear war medals for the Mercantile Marine.
Authority to wear war medals for the Mercantile Marine issued to John MacArthur of the Neuk, Vaul on 30/9/1926.
2004.212.2
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Dates: 1910s
2004.175.3
Photocopied letter from Patagonia dated 5/6/1913 to George Paterson.
Letter from the accountant of `Compania Frigorifica de Patagonia` dated 5th June 1913 to George Paterson in Tiree sending £28 from his father Donald, the company`s stock approver, for two passages from Liverpool to Patagonia.
2004.175.4
Photocopied letter dated 14/7/1917 from Donald Paterson in Patagonia to his son.
Letter dated 14th July 1917 from Donald Paterson in Patagonia to his son promising to send him £30 for his fare to Patagonia where he can work as a shepherd and see his brother Dannie and his sister Sarah who is in the Falklands.
2000.178.1
Black and white photograph of the Mary Stewart in the Gut at Scarinish.
The schooner Mary Stewart owned by the MacLean family of Scarinish moored in the Gut at Scarinish.
2000.201.1
Black and white postcard of Scarinish around 1910.
Scarinish around 1910.
2000.201.2
Black and white photograph of the MacLean family of Vaul.
The MacLean family of Vaul photographed before World War II.
2001.57.4
Black and white photograph of Captain Ritchie, son-in-law of Dr Alexander Buchanan.
Captain Ritchie from Mull, husband of Janetta Buchanan, and probably Janetta and Mary, daughters of Dr Alexander Buchanan, Medical Officer for Tiree 1860-1911.
2001.57.3
Black and white photograph of James Buchanan.
James Buchanan, born in 1873, the twin son of Dr Alexander Buchanan, and died in Patagonia.
2004.163.2
Foghorn from the schooner `Mary Stewart`.
Foghorn (missing rubber bulb) used on board the schooner Mary Stewart, originally an early 20th century car horn. It was a family tradition of the owners (Donald Maclean of Scarinish and his sons) to blow the horn if there was a marriage in the township.
1998.299.2
Audio cassette recording of Angus Munn and Neil Johnston of Heanish talking to Dr John Holliday in November 1998.
Angus Munn and Neil Johnston of Heanish talk to Dr John Holliday in November 1998 about the Heanish bard, sailors, the Land League in Tiree, cobblers, Donald Lamont and his family, boarded-out children, stories about Stanley Swan and Jack MacEwan, the history of Baugh guesthouse, stories about the owners of the guesthouse, the fever hospital, a boatbuilder from Heanish, the boats he built and the people who worked with him.