Photograph of Alexander Archiebald MacLean and his friend “Jonny Dugch”, ca. 1920
Black & white photograph of Alexander Archiebald MacLean, Kilmoluaig (Alick Archie, 1899-1962) and his close friend “Jonny Dugch” around 1920.
2011.75.3
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Dates: 1920s
2011.75.4
Documents and notes relating to the family of Capt. John MacLean (1899-1962), Kilmoluaig.
Photocopies of birth, marriage and death certificates relating to Capt. John MacLean (1899-1962), Kilmoluaig, and his parents Anne MacPhail and Archibald MacLean. Includes notes by genealogist Duncan Grant and Christine (MacLean) Klein, great niece of John MacLean, in 2011. See also photographs P126-P128.
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2011.68.2
Newspaper article about Tearlach MacGregor Whyte
Copy of Oban Times newspaper article about Tearlach MacGregor Whyte, Oban, at his death in 1981. Son of artists Duncan MacGregor Whyte and Mary Barnard, who had a studio on Tiree at Balephuil.
2011.68.3
Song by Sarah MacDonald, Skipinnish
Original and copy of typed song “Tir an Eorna” by Sarah MacDonald, Skipinnish.
2011.54.1
Information about Tiree Mariners during WWI
Printed emails from John C. MacLean to An Iodhlann about Tiree Mariners active during World War II.
2011.43.1
Black bodice blouse
Black silk beaded and boned bodice blouse with lace collar and cuffs. For a small woman. Purpose made pale cotton/linen pouch sewn into the left armpit containing hard round lump of brown substance. This is probably a herbal remedy, possibly a wad of thrift roots which were used to treat `Barr a’ chinn` a condition usually in children in which they go listless after a fright/shock. Blouse belonged to Mary MacLean, Kenovay (Mairi Brady`s maternal grandmother) and worn around 1910.
2011.24.1
Photograph of the family of Hector MacDonald, Balemartine, 1914
Black & white photograph of the family of Hector MacDonald, Mull View, Balemartine, taken off-island around 1914. Hector was a leader of the Tiree Land League during the `Crofters` War` of the 1880s. Sitting: Hector MacDonald with his grandaughter Catherine MacDonald, Margaret Clarke MacDonald (wife of John) with young Hector MacDonald; standing: Hector`s son John MacDonald and his son Archibald, and his sister Annie MacDonald.
2011.18.2
Paper on emigration to Western Australia, 2010
Paper entitled `Whiteness on the frontiers of Empire: Hebridean Scots and group settlement in Western Australia 1923-1928` in the Journal of the Royal Australian Historical Society, 2010.
2011.15.6
Austalian press cuttings about RAF Tiree during WWII
Two Australian newspaper articles printed from the internet: (1) About the family of Morrie Foster`s gift of his flight logbook to An Iodhlann in 2007. Foster served in 518 Met Squadron, Tiree, during WWII. (2) About Les Lambert, Australian firefighter who was a wireless operator aboard RAF Halifaxes based on Tiree during WWII. Both articles highlight the link between RAF Tiree and the success of the D-day landings.
2011.15.2
Composition about water, transport, heating and lighting in the Cornaig School building and grounds from the 1920s to 1970s. Written by Archie MacKinnon, Cornaigmore, who was the school janitor from 1952 to 1992.
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