Gentleman`s razor ca 1930
Roll`s razer in a decorative metal/silver container, used around 1930.
2013.181.3
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2013.166.2
Two curved glass baby feeders
One `Ideal` glass baby feeder, and one `Perfectum` glass baby feeder, both dated around 1930.
2013.135.1
Newspaper articles and letters regarding the conditions faced by emmigrants to Canada in the 1840s
Four newspaper articles and letters from the Inverness Advertiser in November 1849, describing the awful and tragic conditions faced by many emigrants from Tiree, Mull, Uist and Lochalsh, after landing in Canada. Lack of shelter, cholera and starvation resulted in hundreds of deaths.
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Information about horrific conditions faced by Tiree emmigrants to Canada ca 1850.
Various information and emails about the lack of housing, poor health and cholera faced by many Tiree emmigrants when they landed at Quebec, Canada, in the 1840s and 1850s.
2013.76.2
Tin container for waterproof plastic dressings ca 1930s
Small thin metal tin for Burdall`s waterproof plastic dressings (empty). Orange lid with black and white text. Probably manufactured around the 1930s.
2013.73.5
Letter from Rev. Neil MacLean, 1851
Transcript of a letter from Rev Neil MacLean, Gott, in 1851 to his sister-in-law, the widow of Alexander MacLean, telling of the sudden death of “our dear Donald”, the affect on his mother and the funeral.
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2013.71.1
Collection of metal tools from a ruin in the 1970s
Assemblage of eight black-painted tools, length of straw rope and a pair of glasses, collected by Ailean Boyd from ruins in the 1970s: forge tongs, head of an open clay spade used for heavy soils of bottoms of ditches, pony shoe, turf edger head, hammer wrench, ash scraper, fork head, unknown head.
2013.63.1
Vaccination certificate for smallpox, 1899
Original `Notice of the Requirement of Vaccination` issued under the Compulsory Vaccination Act to all newborns under the age of 6 months. Made out to Hugh Hector MacArthur (Caoles?) on 19 Oct. 1899. None of the certificates are signed or returned to the Registrar, so perhaps Hugh Hector did not receive the vaccination.
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2013.57.2
Booklet “Danina C McKinnon 1879-1898” by Alasdair Sinclair, Brock.
Typed bound booklet about Danina McKinnon of Ruaig by her descendant Alasdair Sinclair, Brock, and compiled by his niece, Mary Henderson. Includes images of birth certificate, prize medal from Free Church, School Merit Certificate, many pages from her `Goliath` school exercise book, hospital records, death certificate, rememberance card. Danina died at only 19 from “tumour in neck”.
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2013.49.1
Old fashioned life jacket
Old style life preserver made from white, heavy cotton/linen and bearing text “Salvus life jacket” and “reversed”.
