Photograph of Cornaig School pupils 1976/77
Colour photograph of Cornaig School pupils in 1976/77. Back row L-R: Joyce Barbour (Gillespie-MacInnes); ?; Yvonne MacKinnon, Crossapol; Donna MacArthur, Moss; Gordon Straker (Chibber); Alasdair MacLean (Billy Post). Front row L-R: Mairie MacPhearson, Cornaig; Mary Flora MacPhail, Balephuil; ?; ?; Archie MacArthur (Bear), Barrapol; Alastair Campbell (Bongo) , Mannal; ?; Iain Munn (Paddy), Crossapol. (original stored in filing cabinet 9 drawer 4).
Photograph of Mary Flora MacDonald with her new Clydesdale horse in 2012.
Colour photograph of Mary Flora MacDonald, Balemartine, with her grand-daughter Kara, in their trap being pulled by `Major` the Clydesdale horse on the Balephuil road in July 2012. Taken by Margie Brown, Salum. (oringinal stored in filing cabinet 9 drawer 3)
Photograph of three generations of the Kennedy-Naismith family at Scarinish in 2004
Large colour photograph of Sheila Kennedy Naismith Ramsay, Ross Naismith and Irene Kennedy Naismith of Canada/California/Glasgow with Scarinish Lighthouse in the background. Taken in 2004. Descendents of Kennedys and MacIntyres of Tiree (see 2012.116.2). Original in filing cabinet 9 drawer 4.
Photograph of the MacNeill family of Barrapol/Balemartine ca. 1940
Sepia photograph of a group of MacNeills on the Barrapol machair around 1940. L-R: Donald MacNeill (An Tàillear), Mrs Donald MacNeill (Jane Stewart from Lanakshire), Donald MacNeill Jnr (Dòmhnall an Tàilleur), Hector MacNeill (Eachann an Tàilleur), Margaret MacNeill (Peigi `n Tàilleur), Angus MacArthur (Aonghas Theonaidh, Baile Phuill).
Photograph of Captain Donald MacKinnon, Heanish, ca 1860
Black & white photograph of Captain Donald MacKinnon, Heanish, who sailed the tea clipper `Taeping` to victory in the Great China Tea Race of 1866. Scanned from a full-length photograph 2012.133.3 stored in filing cabinet 4 drawer 4.
Colour photographic slides of Tiree scenes/people from 1950-1980
Eight colour slides (card mounted) of scenes from Tiree 1964-1979. Three colour slides (glass mounted) of people and horses at a cattle show in 1956. Slip of paper with handwritten notes about some of the slides. Annotations include: Flora`s Mum & Dad? – 1965; D & Nan MacLean 8/79; Ian Brown, Balephuil and horse; cattle show; 12/64 Pier Head Calum Salum, `Ian`, Don McIntyre; 21/64 Old Post Office – new van; Cattle Show, Alex McNeil, 1956; 24 Old Post Office, 4 vans & 3 postmen; 35/64 Donald Lamont, landing off Claymore; Donald MacLean and `Morag`; “To the Lean-To”.
Printed photographic portrait of Captain Donald MacKinnon, Heanish, 1827-1867
Large scanned print of an original full-length photographic portrait of Captain Donald MacKinnon who sailed the Taeping to victory during the Great China Tea Race of 1866.
Photograph of the spoon and badge from HMS Sturdy
Colour photograph of a spoon and ship`s badge from the HMS Sturdy that was wrecked on rocks at Sandaig in 1940. The items were given to two nurses who were on holiday on Tiree at the time and who helped the crew. (see 2012.94.1-4)
Photograph of nurses who helped at the HMS Sturdy wrecking in 1940
Black & white photograph of a group of six nurses at Shieldhall Fever Hospital, Glasgow, in 1937-1940. Two of them, Elizabeth `Bessie` Barr, Lanarkshire (back row, right) and `Big` Katie MacArthur,Tiree (back row, centre) were on holiday on Tiree when HMS Sturdy ran onto rocks at Sandaig during a storm in October 1940, with the loss of five lives. The two nurses attended the survivors and were given salvaged souvenirs from the ship as thank-you gifts (see spoon and badge 2012.94.2 & 3). Bessie Barr was the donor`s mother.
Photograph of nurses Elizabeth `Bessie` Barr with the MacArthur family on Tiree in 1939
Black & white photograph of the MacArthur family of Tiree, including `Big` Katie MacArthur and Archie MacArthur, sitting on rocks with Bessie Barr, Lanarkshire, in 1939. Bessie and Katie were both nurses at Shieldhall Fever Hospital, Glasgow, and Bessie regularly spent her holidays on Tiree. It was on one of these holidays, when the two nurses helped the crew of HMS Sturdy when it was wrecked on rocks at Sandaig in 1940.
