Postcard showing four colour photographs of traditional Tiree houses. Produced by Sue Anderson in around 1996.
2022.12.1
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2020.16.1
Black and white photograph of John Lachie MacInnes and his sister Chrissie hand-winching a small haystack onto a trailer at Salum in the 1950s.
2019.76.1
Softback book ‘Shore Lines – word pictures from an island’ by Donald E Meek, 2019. A collection of verse in English composed by Donald Meek, Caoles, about his life on Tiree from the 1950s to the present. Signed by Donald for An Iodhlann.
2017.65.2
Accounting book belonging to Robert Nisbet, Heanish, containing records of amounts spent on (1) fencing materials for croft apportionment and the Scarinish-Heanish boundary in 1972, including the share of the costs for Nisbet and DA Cameron, and labour paid to Neil MacNeill for fencing work, (2) supplies from Boots the Chemists, Oban, 1948-1952, (3) goods from Cook & Blair, Greenock, 1948-1952, (3) goods from Cooper, McDougall & Robertson, Glasgow, 1947-1952, (3) insurance from the Co-operative Insurance Society, Glasgow, 1946-1952, (4) goods and services from George & Jobling, Glasgow, 1949-1952, (5) goods from Speedwell Lubricants, London, 1949-1951, (6) goods from Duncan MacDougall, Oban, 1950-1952, (7) goods from Kilmarnock Equitable Co-op Society, 1948-1950, (8) goods from J&D Hilston, Lanark, 1948-1952, (9) goods from McGill & Smith, Ayr, 1948-1952, (10) goods from MacFarlan Shearer & Co., Greenock, 1948-1952, (11) goods from Scottish Agricultural Industries, Glasgow, 1948-1952, (12) services from GPO – Telephone Manager, Glasgow, 1949-1951, (13) bull services of the Scarinish Hotel, 1950, (14) veterinary services of DS Brown, Oban, 1951-1952, (15) rent to the Duke of Argyll, 1949-1952, (16) membership of the Highland Cattle Society of Scotland, 1949-1951, (17) subscription to the Scottish Farmer newspaper, Glasgow, 1951-1952. The accounting book itself is titled “The Guildhall series of stock rulings”.
2016.57.1
Ornate, cast iron tractor seat made by Blackstone & Company Ltd, Stamford, who made farm implements and engines between 1889 and 1937. Mounted on a wooden block by Alan Reid for An Iodhlann in 2008.
2014.120.5
Photograph of people in a tractor trailer, 1960s
Black & white photograph of 6 members of the Knapman family being driven to the shops by tractor and trailer at Vaul in the 1960s.
2014.36.4
Front cover of a Bernard D Smith & Son calendar
Cardboard front cover of a calendar(? 2013?) made by and advertising Bernard D Smith & Son builders, West Hynish, showing a black & white photograph of the coal puffer `Anzac` unloading coal on Caoles beach in 1952. Photograph accessioned separately as U152.
2014.36.5
Photograph of a coal puffer unloading coal at Coales in 1952
Black & white photograph of the coal puffer `Anzac` beached at Caoles in 1952 while horse- and tractor-drawn carts wait for coal to be unloaded on to them. (original stored in filing cabinet 10 drawer 1; 2014.36.4)
2014.7.6
Photograph of a group of children with a man in a tractor in 1952
Black & white photograph of a group of three boys and a girl standing in front of a man driving a tractor in July 1952. Possibly from the MacNeil / Kennedy family of Balevullin/Balephuil. From a collection of photographs from the house of Ellen Kennedy (nee Eilidh MacNeil), Balevullin.
2014.5.3
Photograph of a group of people with a tractor at Balevullin, ca 1960
Black & white photograph of Hugh Mitchell (driving), Ellen Kennedy (nee Eilidh MacNeill), Balevullin, in front, Margaret Boden in the middle, and a friend. Original stored in 2014.5.1 filing cabinet 10 drawer 1.
