Black & white portrait photograph of a family group connected with Marion MacLeod, Port Mor, Sandaig, in around 1910. The photograph was produced by a studio in Lennoxtown, Glasgow.
2019.81.8
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Dates: 1920s
2019.81.7
Black & white photograph of a thatched house around 1930-40, probably one of the row that later became part of the Thatched House Museum at Sandaig.
2019.81.6
Black & white postcard photograph of an elderly woman holding a baby on her lap outside a house (not Tiree). Found in a collection of photographs connected to Marion MacLeod, Port Mor, Sandaig, and likely to be of her relations. On the reverse is written “Miss M MacLeod, Sandaig, Middleton, Isle of Tiree”, plus notes on colours of features and clothing of both subjects.
2019.81.5
Black & white photograph of three crofting men by a pen of sheep, probably at Sandaig/Middleton. Found in a collection of photographs connected to Marion MacLeod, Port Mor, Sandaig.
2019.81.2
Black & white photograph of an unidentified elderly lady related to Marion MacLeod, Sandaig (possibly her mother), standing outside a thatched house in around 1910.
2019.81.1
Collection of 42 scanned black & white photographs of people and places connected to Marion MacLeod, Port Mor, Sandaig. Most are portraits of un-named adults and children, with others of soldiers in uniform, crofters at work, and houses in Sandaig. A selection are catalogued separately: see 2019.81.2 – 10
2019.80.1
Photocopied tribute to Annie MacIntyre, Gott Farm, written by Lady Fergusson of Kilkerran in around 1955. Annie was the housekeeper and friend of the various members of the family of the Dukes of Argyll when they were staying at The Lodge, over a span of 50 years.
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2019.74.2
Black & white photograph of Rev Dr Dugald MacFarlane (1869-1956), Moderator of the Church of Scotland during 1937-1938. Dugald was one of the sons of the Rev Duncan MacFarlane and Catherine MacLachlan (both of Tiree), who lived at Baugh Manse.
2019.62.1
Scanned copy of a telegram sent by Captain John Brown (1902-1986), Balevullin, to his parents in Cornaig, after being shipwrecked on Tuskar Rock off the east coast of Ireland in 1927. Includes a page of background information. John Brown was 25 years old at the time and could not swim.
He met his future wife when his ship, the Baron Belhaven, was being repaired in Barry Docks (west of Cardiff) in 1941. A bomb had dropped down the funnel when sailing in convoy out of Liverpool during WW2.
2019.58.1
Black & white postcard photograph of cargo boats at Scarinish Harbour in around 1940, with a kilted gentleman in the foreground. The ship behind is probably the Mary Stewart.
