CollectionGB 0231 University of Aberdeen, Special Collections
LevelFile
Ref NoMS 3840/7
Alt Ref NoMS 3483
TitleCharles G. MacPherson donation of lantern slides of Orkney and Shetland by George Washington Wilson & Company and others
Datec 1850 - 1905
Extent43 items
SourceDonated by Charles G. MacPherson in 1986
Description43 slides, by various photographers, and typescript list:
A Glassy sea, Kirkwall. T. Kent
High Water, Kirkwall. Kent series
Becalmed, T. Kent, Kirkwall
Kirkwall in winter
Stromness
At the Quern, Orkney
The Orkney Express
Starting for the Orkney derby
Weary Willie, Orkney
Standing Stones of Stenness, George Washington Wilson
Brough of Birsay
A wild day on the Orkney coast. T. Kent
The Beautiful west. T. Kent, Kirkwall
Steam Drifters at Lerwick
Commercial Street Lerwick
Scalloway from the Scord
Mavis Grind, Shetland
Holm of Noss. George Washington Wilson
Muness Castle, George Washington Wilson
The Dore Holm, George Washington Wilson
Shetland Peat Carrier
Perrie Shetlanders
Winnowing Corn, Shetland
Rooing Shetland sheep
Shetland crofter making a peat kishie
Shetland crofter's cottage
Weaving and winding a Shetland claith web
Washing and Shetland Claith web
Washing and dressing Shetland shawls
Washing and dressing Shetland shawls (duplicate)
Carding and spinning Shetland wool
Turning the stubborn soil
Threshing
[Rope making] J.D. Edward
[Cottage interior] J.D. Edward
The Village Blacksmith [portrait]
portrait
Flying gulls
S.S. St. Rognvald
The ebbing tide
A summer wave
A mackerel sky. T. Kent
ArrangementThis series was formerly labelled MS 3483, but was combined with MS 3840 to form an artifical collection of with additional George Washington Wilson commerical output.
Access StatusRestricted
Access ConditionsThis item is stored in special environmental conditions and requires an acclimatisation period of 24hs before it can be accessed.
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