Black and white portrait photograph of Archie MacLean, Whitehouse, Cornaigbeg.
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Dates: 1950s
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Collection of 9 modern prints of photographs of members of the MacLean family of Whitehouse, Cornaigbeg, 1900-1970. Alexander MacLean, Donald MacLean, Archibald MacLean, Thomas MacLean, Eliza MacLean, Chrissie MacLean, Margaret MacLean.
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Flat steel cabinet scaper from Vaul, inscribed with ‘C R Pugh’. Said to have been used for finishing the wood of coffins.
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Savings account book issued by The National Bank of Scotland, Scarinish, to the Tiree Agricultural Society, 1949-1988, and a typed summary of income and expenditure for Tiree Agricultural Society, 1986.
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Handwritten Income / Expenditure ledger for Tiree Agricultural Society, 1954-1988. Includes auditors reports and signatures.
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Handwritten Income / Expenditure ledger for Tiree Agricultural Society, 1911-1953. Includes auditors reports and signatures.
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Wedding cake postal box and compliments slip found inside a tin box in the wall of Taigh a’ Chontractor, Crossapol, in 2016.
The wedding, held in London on 4 June 1917, was of Kate Matheson Maclennan, mantle saleswoman from Partick, to John Maclean (42), Corporation Clerk and Private in the Royal Highlanders of Canada. The cake box is addressed to Mrs Ann MacDonald, Farmer, Balemartine, Tiree, and stamped 2d. Ann was 66 in the 1911 census (72 at the time of the wedding). Both of Kate’s parents were from Stornoway.
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Newspaper cutting ‘Bulbs on Tiree’, 1956, about plans to create a bulb-growing industry on the island. Written by Dr Alex F.R. Nisbet of the West of Scotland Agricultural College and published in the Weekly Scotsman, Wed. August 1, 1956.
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Hardback book ‘The Citizen Housewives’ Guide’, 1955. Published by the Evening Citizen (Glasgow) newspaper as a popular guide to housekeeping and domestic skills for women. Features cookery, wine-maiking, cleaning, knitting & dressmaking, cosmetics, hair care, perfume, mothercraft, health care, flower arranging, birthstones, holidays, using starsigns to find the perfect husband, weddings, party games.
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Large brass spring balance scales for weighing up to 200 lbs of grain, fleece and other items. Manufactured by Geo. Salter & Co. Ltd in 1917.
