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Trees

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Created For = NAHSTE

Found in 120 Collections and/or Records:

Story entitled 'Caileach Ghlinn Dorcha', 29 January 1875

 Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW106/126
Scope and Contents Story entitled 'Caileach Ghlinn Dorcha' probably collected from John MacInnes, aged 70 years, Stadhlaigearraidh/Stilligarry, Uibhist a Deas/South Uist. The story tells how a man met an old woman who called herself 'Cailleach a' Ghlinn Dorcha'. When he asked her how old she was she replied that she was so old she could remember when there nut trees in Bornish [Bornais] and after further conversation she vanished. Carmichael notes that nuts and tree roots are found in Bornish and also that...
Dates: 29 January 1875

Tapping Old Trees, 1870s-1930s

 Item
Identifier: Coll-1434/69
Scope and Contents

Photograph of men tapping old trees by hand.

Dates: 1870s-1930s

Tapping Twelve Year Old Trees, 1870s-1930s

 Item
Identifier: Coll-1434/3279
Scope and Contents

Photograph of men tapping twelve year old rubber trees on a plantation in [Malaysia?] in the early 20th century. In the image, the men are cutting a spiral pattern into the trees and a water buffalo is harnessed to a large cannister.

Dates: 1870s-1930s

Tapping Young Tree, Rantau Panjang Estate, [Malaysia], 1870s-1930s

 Item
Identifier: Coll-1434/3281
Scope and Contents

Photograph of a man tapping a young rubber tree using a herring-bone pattern on the Rantau Panjang Estate in [Malaysia] in the early 20th century.

Dates: 1870s-1930s

Tapwonden [Tap Wounds], 1870s-1930s

 Item
Identifier: Coll-1434/2582
Scope and Contents

Photographs of trees with cut markings for tapping. The image on the left shows good cuts in the tap wounds in the tree and the image on the right shows difficult to tap deep cut wounds.

Dates: 1870s-1930s

The Big Tree at Tula [Tule], 1870s-1930s

 Item
Identifier: Coll-1434/1101
Scope and Contents

Photograph of the big tree, a Montazuma cypress, at Tula [Tule] in the town of Santa Maria del Tule, Oaxaca, Mexico with three men standing next to its trunk in the early 20th century.

Dates: 1870s-1930s

The Noche Triste Tree [Mexico City, Mexico], 1870s-1930s

 Item
Identifier: Coll-1434/1099
Scope and Contents

Photograph of the Noche Triste tree in Mexico City, Mexico in a park surrounded by a fence with two male figures painted onto the image.

Dates: 1870s-1930s

The Way Pears Grow on the Dry Belt of British Columbia [Canada], 1870s-1930s

 Item
Identifier: Coll-1434/1511
Scope and Contents

Photograph of pears growing on a pear tree in the Dry Belt in British Columbia, Canada in the early 20th century.

Dates: 1870s-1930s

Transcription notebook of Alexander Carmichael, 1864-1869

 Series
Identifier: Coll-97/CW104
Scope and Contents Transciption notebook belonging to Alexander Carmichael. The inside front cover is inscribed in ink with 'Bought at Wadebridge Cornwall Dec[ember] 1 1864 p 1/6 A A Carmichael' and the opposite page has 'A A Carmichael' written on it in pencil. The notebook contains Fenian songs or tales mainly collected in Uibhist a Deas/South Uist and Beinn na Faoghla/Benbecula, some of which are repeated in full or in part. These include 'Laoidh na Muileartaich', 'Duan an Deirg' and 'A' Bhraoin Chaorain'....
Dates: 1864-1869

Tree Destruction by Natives, 1870s-1930s

 Item
Identifier: Coll-1434/984
Scope and Contents

Photograph of an area of trees destroyed by natives [in South Africa?] in the early 20th century.

Dates: 1870s-1930s