Colour photograph of the harbour wall at Port Bhiosd, The Green, revealed by Storm Brendan in March 2020. The harbour was built to aid famine relief in 1847.
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Colour photograph of a model ship in a bottle, ‘The Mary D’, made by Sam Stevenson, Crossapol. Sam Stevenson made several ships in bottles. ‘The Mary D’ is the last one he made. Courtesy of Monica Smith.
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Colour photograph of Sam Stevenson (1890-1983), Crossapol, and Donald Davies at Erskine Hospital in around 1982. Courtesy of Monica Smith.
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Colour photograph of Jean (Jane; nee Campbell) and Sam Stevenson (1890-1983) at 5 Reef Terrace, Crossapol, in around 1970. Courtesy of Marion Campbell.
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Black & white photograph of Alex MacKenzie, Milton, aged around 5, with his dog, Coll, taken at Milton in around 1927. Courtesty of Morag MacKenzie.
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Colour photograph of the gravestone of Murdoch MacKinnon (1875-1906), Balinoe, in a graveyard in South Africa. Donald’s parents were Roderick MacKinnon (1833-1879) and Marion Brown (1840-1924). Murdoch became a policeman and moved to South Africa with his brother Donald MacKinnon, also a policeman, in around 1903-06. Murdoch died in Cape Town, aged 31.
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Black & white photograph of Donald MacKinnon (1872-1945), Balinoe, with his wife Annie MacKinnon and son Donald Roderick MacKinnon in around 1912. Donald’s parents were Roderick MacKinnon (1833-1879) and Marion Brown (1840-1924). He left Tiree in around the late 1890s and worked as a police constable in Glasgow. He married Annie MacLeod in June 1902 and they had a daughter, Isabella MacKinnon, who was born in Glasgow on 30 March 1903. Sometime between 1903 and 1906 the family emigrated to South Africa where Donald and his brother, Murdoch MacKinnon, worked as policemen. There, Donald and Annie had another two children: Joan and Marion. Donald died in South Africa in 1945 (death certificate).
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Photocopy of a maritime map of Scotland, the Hebrides and Orkney islands, and the north of England and Ireland, dated 1583. Annotated in French and using Roman lettering. Tiree is labelled Terray. From an exhibition held in An Iodhlann in 1998.
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Black & white photograph of L-R: black-roofed croft house, outbuildings and new croft house, at Main Road Farm in Balephuil, around the 1930s. From an exhibition held at An Iodhlann in 1998.
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Large, carved, wooden lamp-shade made in the 1960s by Hugh MacDonald, Kenovay, for the Church of Scotland at Kirkapol. It was installed above the pulpit when electricity first became available on the island.
