Fuel
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Created For = NAHSTE
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
Building Charcoal Pilas, Cabaria Toriane, 1870s-1930s
Item
Identifier: Coll-1434/708
Scope and Contents
Photograph of men building piles of charcoal supported by logs in Cabaria Toriane in the late 19th or early 20th century.
Dates:
1870s-1930s
Indian Fuel Dryers, 1870s-1930s
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Identifier: Coll-1434/1108
Scope and Contents
Photograph of three Indian fuel dryers that had been 'taken hostage for the due fulfilment of the terms.' Two are standing with fuel in baskets sitting on their heads and the third is sitting on the ground between them nex to a pile of fuel in the early 20th century.
Dates:
1870s-1930s
Note about the people of Rona, 15 December 1885
Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW120/306
Scope and Contents
Note about the people of Rona [Rònaigh/North Rona] taken from John MacCulloch's The Highlands and Western Isles of Scotland that they are Roman Catholic, that each summer a boat is sent to Lewis [Eilean Leòdhais] to the Earl of Seaforth with 'the excresence of above thirty souls', something which the islanders 'exce[e]d[ingly] bewail'. Their annual payment to the Earl is 'some quantity of meal stitched up in sheeps skins and feathers of seafowls'. It is noted that...
Dates:
15 December 1885