PDF copy of a photo of Harry and Mary Rutter (L) and Gilbert and Gaye Cadden (R)
The Rutters ran the Balemartine shop and Gilbert Cadden was the visiting dentist
2026.14.1
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2020.9.1
Thirty-eight colour slides of scenes of Tiree photographed by Harry Rutter, Balemartine, in the late 1950s-1960s. Harry planned to make postcards of the images for sale from his shop in Balemartine. Scenes include beaches, townships, Tiree Pipe Band, cattle show and the airport.
2019.88.1
Colour photograph of Nan MacLean outside her butcher’s shop in Scarinish in 1995, with the butcher’s van and a German visitor.
2019.59.7
Printed photograph of four brass printing plates and their corresponding prints, used by Mona MacDonald to create postcards for selling from her shop in Scarinish in around the 1960s. Each plate was inked with a different colour, the combined effect creating the final full-colour postcard of boats in Scarinish Harbour.
2019.59.6
Replica copy of a set of six colour postcard images arranged in the pull-out form of a ‘letter card’, made by Mona MacDonald for selling from her shop in Scarinish during the 1950s-1970s. Images are of Scarinish harbour, Baugh beach, thatched house at Moss, Gott beach, Kenavara, Travee.
2019.59.5
Colour photograph of Mona MacDonald and friends at the door of Mona’s shop in Scarinish in around 1970.
2019.59.4
Colour photograph of Mona MacDonald in her shop in Scarinish in around 1955.
2019.59.3
Colour photograph of Mona MacDonald and her mother Maggie outside MacDonald’s shop in Scarinish in around 1955.
2019.58.3
Black & white composite postcard made by Mona MacDonald, Scarinish, from different scenes from Tiree in around 1940. Mona sold these from her shop in Scarinish.
2019.58.2
Black & white composite postcard made by Mona MacDonald, Scarinish, from different scenes from Tiree in around 1940. Mona sold these from her shop in Scarinish.
