Photograph of skiffs moored in Skippinish Bay, ca 1930
Poscard photograph of three skiffs moored in Skippinish Bay, Ruaig, with the Skippinish guesthouse in the background.
2014.117.7
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Object Type: photograph
2014.114.1
Large framed portrait of unknown woman
Large wood-framed sepia photographic portrait of an unknown distinguished mature woman.
2014.108.1
Photograph of the old lighthouse at Scarinish, 1962
Black & white photograph of L-R: unknown, unknown and Neil MacNeill, Scarinish (Niall an Tailleir), standing by the old lighthouse at Scarinish in 1962. It was removed when the new building was built (see V114). (accession includes a digitally restored copy: `V113 restored`)
2014.108.2
Photograph of the building of the new Scarinish Light in 1962
Black & white photograph of L-R: unknown, Neil MacNeill, Scarinish (Niall an Tailleir), his son Neil MacNeill, and unknown, during building works of the new Scarinish Light (the square building) in 1962. The old lighthouse, which was removed, is in the background. (accession includes a digitally restored copy: `V114 restored`)
2014.108.3
Photograph of Neil MacNeill, Scarinish, in the 1960s
Sepia photograph of Neil MacNeill, Scarinish, (Niall an Tailleir / Neil son of the Tailor) at the tiller of an open fishing boat in the 1960s.
2014.108.4
Photograph of Willie MacNeill and Dr Kennedy in the 1960s
Sepia photograph of L-R: Dr Kennedy and Willie MacNeill, The Land – Barrapol, in a fishing boat off Tiree in the 1960s.
2014.108.5
Photograph of shags on a rocky point in the 1960s
Sepia photograph of about 40 shags taking off from a rocky point on Tiree`s shore in the 1960s. The photograph was probably taken by Dr Kennedy, out on a fishing trip with Willie MacNeill, The Land – Barrapol, and Neil MacNeill, Scarinish (Niall an Tailleir). Shags were once part of the Tiree diet.
2014.105.1
Framed photograph of Donald Cameron (1891-1916)
Sepia portrait photograph of Captain Donald Archibald Cameron in the uniform of the Royal Irish Rangers during WWI. Hand-coloured and framed in oval glass. He died in action during WWI. Relative of Robin Cameron, Crossapol. (may have been handed in by someone named Porter, staying at Vaul, pre mid-2008).
2014.105.2
Photograph of Crossapol Bay with Beinn Hough in the background, ca 1910
Card-mounted, black & white photograph across Crossapol Bay with Beinn Hough in the backround. Taken from An Àird, Tràigh Bhàigh, by well-known art photographer Andrew Swan Watson around 1910. Watson worked in photography from at least as early as 1884 until around 1930, had a studio in Edinburgh, was the President of the Edinburgh Professional Photographers Society, won several European awards, and was noted for his photographs of clouds. This landscape shot may be one of the earliest ever taken. Information about Watson and his studio on label on reverse.
2014.106.1
Photograph of a young minister, ca 1900.
Sepia portrait photograph taken around 1900 of an unamed graduate who either became a minister on Tiree or was related to the MacKinnon family at Kirkapol. The original photograph was presented with two other portraits in a wooden frame that was carved by one of Hector MacKinnon`s family (Lodge Farm, Kirkapol) at Lady Victoria`s woodworking class, ca 1910. The frame was beautifully ornate but was broken during woodworm treatment in 2013. (originals stored in filing cabinet 10 drawer 1)