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

Found in 204 Collections and/or Records:

Goat Keepers Near Eagle Pass, Texas, 1870s-1930s

 Item
Identifier: Coll-1434/2922
Scope and Contents

Photograph of men, women and children who were goat keepers standing in front of a thatched building near Eagle Pass, Texas, [United States] in the early 20th century.

Dates: 1870s-1930s

Group of Bhutias, Darjeeling, 1870s-1930s

 Item
Identifier: Coll-1434/1131
Scope and Contents

Photograph of a group of Bhutias, possibly a family of a mother, father, son and daughter sitting and standing together for a portrait in Darjeeling, [India] in the late 19th or early 20th century.

Dates: 1870s-1930s

Household and family items, c1920-c1960

 Series
Identifier: BAI 13
Scope and Contents

Household and family items consists of:


  1. Account/bank books
  2. Cuttings of intimations
  3. Christmas cards (& list)
  4. Items relating to moving from New York to Canada
  5. Party games
  6. Recipes
Dates: c1920-c1960

In a Lean-To in Egypt, 1870s-1930s

 Item
Identifier: Coll-1434/1198
Scope and Contents

Photograph of a Western man sitting in a lean-to in front of a wheat field next to two Egyptian women and a child, with another Egyptian woman standing nearby in the late 19th or early 20th century.

Dates: 1870s-1930s

Incomplete story entitled 'Niean Gobha Ghriminis', 20 October 1870

 Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW116/123
Scope and Contents Story entitled 'Ni[gh]ean Gobha Ghriminis' collected from Donacha MacanLeallain [Duncan MacLellan], mason and crofter, Carnan, Iocar [Càrnan, Ìochdar, Uibhist a Deas/South Uist]. The story tells how a blacksmith in 'Grim[inis] sa Cheanna tua' [Griminish, Uibhist a Tuath/North Uist] was a good man with no family but a daughter. He had cattle on Beinn Lee [Beinn Lì] and one winter when the snow came he sent his cow-herd off to fetch his cattle. The cow-herd got all the cattle except the...
Dates: 20 October 1870

Items relating to or assembled by Ian Fowler Baillie, 1909-1966

 Series
Identifier: BAI 4
Scope and Contents

The items relating to or assembled by Ian Fowler Baillie consist of:


  1. biographical notes on John Baillie and the wider family
  2. papers relating to John Baillie
  3. press cuttings
  4. school reports
Dates: 1909-1966

J. Duncan's Farm House, Deleau, Man[itoba, Canada], 1870s-1930s

 Item
Identifier: Coll-1434/259
Scope and Contents

Photograph of J. Duncan's farm house, vegetable patch, horse and buggy, and family in Deleau, Manitoba, Canada in the late 19th or early 20th century.

Dates: 1870s-1930s

Journal account of departure of Eoghan Carmichael's departure for Africa, 6 May 1893 to 13 May 1893

 Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW126g/1
Scope and Contents

Journal account written by Alexander Carmichael of the departure of his son Eoghan for Africa describing seeing him off at Waverley Station, Edinburgh, noting who met him in London and that he set sail on the 'SS Scot' from London, England for Chinde, East Africa [Mozambique]. Of his departure, Carmichael writes 'Poor darling boy! We shall not see him at the soonest for five years - perhaps never. God alone knows. This is the first break in the family.'

Dates: 6 May 1893 to 13 May 1893

Letter from Joseph Black to his father, 01 June 1754

 Item
Identifier: Coll-16/I/1-2
Scope and Contents

Letter from Joseph Black to his father, John Black, expressing a wish to stay longer in Edinburgh.

Dates: 01 June 1754

Letter from Joseph Black to his father, 04 April 1757

 Item
Identifier: Coll-16/I/3
Scope and Contents

Letter from Joseph Black to his father, John Black, introducing Mr Somerville, grandson to John Gowdie, Principal of the University of Edinburgh.

Dates: 04 April 1757