Photograph album showing people and locations in Perthshire

List of the photographs in the album, showing captions where they are present, with some additional context in square brackets provided by the bookseller:

• “Blair Castle from the East.” [prior to the 1860/70s embellishment of the building with turrets, etc.]
• “Portion of Blair Garden.”
• “Mrs Forbs at her wheel.” [she is seated outside with her spinning wheel at the cottage beside the gateway to Glen Tilt - see following]
• “Private Road to Glen Tilt.” [Mrs Forbs can be seen with her spinning wheel, sitting inside the doorway of the cottage]
• “Rev. A. Irvine, Blair Athole.” [The Reverend Doctor Alexander Robertson Irvine, 1806-1867, was the Minister at Blair Atholl parish Church. Queen Victoria and Prince Albert attended a service there, on 15 September, 1844. Apparently, Irvine was asked to limit his sermon to 25 minutes. For his sermon, he chose “You are the salt of the earth”, based on Matthew 5:13. Lady Charlotte Canning, a Lady of the Bedchamber to the Queen, is said to have commented that the Queen did not enjoy the sermon.]
• “& family.” [The Reverend’s second wife, Sophia Jane Stewart Irvine, 1818- 1856, daughter of Captain Duncan Robertson of Kindrochit and Sophia Robertson. Two of their children.]
• “The Dominie.” [The Schoolmaster, Gilbert McLaren. Dominie - an old Scottish word for schoolmaster. McLaren is standing before a door, with a metal plaque bearing the text: “Gilbert M’Laren Registrar Blair Athole”. In Scotland, historically, the registrar was often the local schoolmaster.]
• [An unidentified man, sitting in a garden, wearing a kilt.]
• “The Factor’s house, Old Blair.”
• “Rustic entrance to the Castle.”
• “Old Church of Blair.”
• “Bridge of Tilt Inn from intr. of Entrance to Lude.”
• “Garry side Cottages.” [The cottages were built in 1856 and in the photograph they appear new, with small, pointed conifers, planted around the property.]
• “Looking from Garry side to Beni Gloe.”
• “York Cascade from Old Bridge of Tilt.”
• Village of Old Bridge of Tilt.”
• “York Cascade”
• “York Cascade in the dist’ce.”
• “Bridge of Tilt.”
• “Witch’s Pool.”
• “Rock at Witch’s Pool.”
• “Sandy MaCara, fox trapper Blair Atholl.” [Blair Atholl Extract of Marriages: Alexander McAra, Blair Castle, married Jane McFarlane, of Bankfoot, Auchtergaven, on 25th April, 1841. The Chronicles of the Atholl and Tullibardine Families, record an Alexander McAra as Head Forester, between 1847 and 1864.]
• “View on the Tilt above the falls of Fendor.”
• “View on the Tilt.”
• “Salmon Leap.”
• “Sheep Clippers (at Dinner) in Glen Tilt.”
• “High fall on the Bruar.”
• “Lower fall of Bruar.”
• “The Natl. Arch from the bridge.”
• “Immediately below the Lower fall.”
• “Partly reversing the above.”
• “Below the above.”
• “Then last rugged turn.”
• “Bridge of Bruar, Ben-i-Bhrachi.”
• “Village of Pittagowan, near Bruar.”
• Falls of the Garry at Calvine.”
• Bridge over the Garry at Calvine.”
• “Julius Caesar, serv't to Col. MacDuff.” [this staged portrait shows one Colonel MacDuff’s Black servant, Julius Caesar. Another image, captioned “View on the Tilt, above the Witch’s Pool”, depicts the same man wearing plaid trousers, simply standing in a landscape, in the area of the River Tilt. Caesar may have been assisting the photographer carry his equipment.]
• “Hay shaking machine.”
• “Head Gardener at Blair.”
• “Locke Gourt Hill, Strathord.”
• “James MacFarlane, farmer, Shielhill.”
• [Cows lying on grass, pine trees behind and a man looking over them.]
• “Forty Sheep Clippers at work in Glen Tilt.”
• “Marquis of Tullibardine.” [John James Hugh Henry Stewart-Murray, 7th Duke of Atholl, KT. Styled the Marquess of Tullibardine between 1846 and 1864. This unusual small hunting themed photograph, depicts the Marquess in what appears to be his teenage years. He is wearing a kilt and an unusual plaid cap, similar to the Breton style. He is holding a musket and a powder horn, as if about to charge his musket with shot.]
• “Estab’d Church of New Blair.”
• “New Blair, with the Inn.”
• “Her Grace, The Duchess of Atholl.”
• “View on the Tilt, above the Witch’s Pool.” [Julius Caesar stands in the foreground, wearing a bonnet and plaid trousers.]
• [A man, wearing a kilt and hat, cleaning a musket.]
• “Mrs MacDonald, the Halton.”
• “Fred. Latham & J. MacDuff.” [Two cousins, Frederick Graham Latham and James MacDuff. Latham was born in Perthshire, in 1833 and died in Edinburgh in 1905. He was the son of Lieutenant Latham, born in Perth in 1783 and Grizel, or Grace, Campbell MacDuff, born at Auchtergaven in 1795. MacDuff was born at Auchtergaven in 1834. His father, brother of Latham’s mother, Grizel, was Lieutenant, Alexander MacDuff, born 1792 and christened the same year at Auchtergaven. MacDuff’s mother was Christian Campbell, born 1824 in Edinburgh. Latham emigrated to America, apparently from 1854. He fought for the Confederate army in the American Civil War, attaining the rank of Captain. He had enlisted in the Palmetto Sharpshooters at Gaffney and Spartanburg, South Carolina. He was bestowed with medals for his service, including a bravery award for his actions in one particular battle. Frederick Street in Gaffney is named after him. He was granted a six week furlough back in Scotland, in the winter of 1863, exclusive of travelling time. Later he succeeded his brother, Alexander, as the Superintendent of the Magnetic Iron Works in Union, S.C., later changing from that job, to become a planter. He moved to Charleston in 1881, where he mined phosphates. According to the Chronicles of Atholl and Tullibardine Families, MacDuff became the Sub-Factor at Blair in 1858. In the 1861 census, he is recorded as a Land Factor, living in Old Blair House, Blair Atholl. ]
• “Pico Fort, Funchal.”
• “P. Stewart, Ednr.”
• “Pico Fort, Mountchurch in the distance.”
• “Dwarf Bananas, fruit & flower.”
• “St. Peters Church, Funchal.”
• “Funchal from Mt.Church Road.”
• [A scientific instrument.]
• [A sculpture of a seated girl holding a large shell.]
• [An unidentified man.]
• “Dr. W. Gilchrist.”
• [An unidentified man.]
• [An unidentified man.]

• [A group of five manual workers, four men and one boy. They are seated on a wheeled implement, within what appears to be the ‘rustic’ wooden fenced area at Blair Castle - this fence can be seen in the 7th photograph in the list]
• "Rev. Willim Hannay."
• [An unidentified man, possibly conducting a scientific experiment.]
• [A stereo photograph of an unidentified man.]
• [Four photographs from unidentified people]
• [Seven photographs, including stereo photographs, duplicates of photographs in the album.]
• [Walter Scott letter.]
• [Part letter: possibly signed by Arthur FitzGerald Kinnaird, 10th Lord Kinnaird, 1814-1887, Banker and Liberal politician.]