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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

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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

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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