Black and white photograph of the General Committee of the Tiree Association, Session 1926-27.
L-R: (back row) M. MacIntyre, D. Dawson, A. Brown, N. MacLean, (middle row) A. MacKinnon, Mrs Livey, A. MacLean, m. B. MacDonald, J. C. MacGillivray, L. MacLeod, L. I. MacDonald, (front row) Mrs D. MacLean,, Mrs A. Campbell, H. Kennedy, Mrs C. MacPherson, Mrs Lamb, Mrs Brown.
Colour photograph of a painting titled `The Wave` by Duncan MacGregor Whyte.
Painting titled `The Wave` by Duncan MacGregor Whyte.
Black and white photograph of the MacLeans at Cornaigmore School.
The MacLeans at Cornaigmore School in the 1920s or 1930s. L-R: (back row) headmaster D.O. MacLean, Janet, Grace, Mary and her brother John; (middle row) Archie (Lochside), Catriona , Flora, Mary Margaret, Mary (Port na Criche), Alasdair (brother of Mary and John), John (Lochside); (front) Donald (Ardbeg) and Hugh.
Colour photograph of a painting titled `The Dark Sea` by Duncan MacGregor Whyte.
Painting titled `The Dark Sea` by Duncan MacGregor Whyte.
Black and white photograph of Ann and John Kennedy with their grandmother Euphemia MacLean.
L-R: Ann and John Kennedy with their grandmother Euphemia MacLean(1839-1929) and an unknown couple and boy. Euphemia was married to Lachlan MacLean of Cornaigbeg and emigrated to Canada with her family in 1879. (Ann married Wellington Mortson and is grandmother to Marjorie Skulmoski who wrote the family history `Our roots are in Tiree`)
Colour photograph of a painting titled `Wave and Rock` by Duncan MacGregor Whyte.
Painting titled `Wave and Rock` by Duncan MacGregor Whyte.
Black and white photograph of Euphemia MacLean nee MacFadyen.
Euphemia MacFadyen, born in Caoles in 1841 and died in Canada in 1929. She married Lachlan MacLean (see photograph D65) in 1867 and lived in Cornaigbeg until 1879 when they emigrated to Canada with their three surviving children, Christina (11), John (5) and Mary (3).
Black and white photograph of the Whitehouse MacLeans in the 1920s.
Haymaking at Whitehouse, Cornaigbeg in the 1920s. L-R: Alex MacLean, his father Donald MacLean and his brothers, Archie, Donald and Tom.
Photocopied letter to Mr A. H. Ross, headmaster of Cornaigmore School, dated 14/4/1925 from the Superintendent of Edinburgh Met Office about delaying the telegraphic weather reporting station on Tiree until guarantors can be found to bear 40% of the costs required by the Post Office.
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Photocopied letter to the Director of Education, Argyll County Council, dated 26/5/1925 from the Superintendent of the Edinburgh Met Office proposing that the headmaster of Cornaig School is employed as the observer for the weather reporting station at a rate of £50 p.a. The equipment and duties involved are listed.
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