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Photograph of two men standing next to a cart on a track carrying milk cannisters on the Veld in [South Africa] in the early 20th century.

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The manuscript material is composed of files of research including: travel in medieval Scotland; travel pre-1600; royal pilgrimages; pilgrims and hospitals; 16th century travellers; roads; bridges; ferries; early maps; James VI visit; coaching and stage-coaches; turnpike roads; 17th and 18th century travellers; mountains; Wade and Highland roads; 19th century travellers; mail coaches; smacks and steamers; and, railways.

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Documents relating to agreements made between the Royal Edinburgh Asylum and the North British Railway Company. Includes Memorandum and dispositions.

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Photograph of a Push Push in Ranchi, 'a vehicle of locomotion in Chota' in October 1904. It shows three covered wagon-like vehicles being pulled by two men in a yard in front of a house in Chota Nagpur, India.

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Article about the railway line to Bangour Village Hospital.

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Photograph of Professor Robert Wallace being carried in a mashila by four African men across a field in [Southern Africa] in the early 20th century.

Scope and Contents Story about the Banna, a beautiful creature which was like a woman from the waist up and a salmon from the waist down/ She sat 'on a boulder at the junction of the Carron with the Banna' [Abhainn Charrain/River Carron, Ros is Cromba/Ross and Cromarty and Drochaid a' Bhanna/Bonar Bridge, Cataibh/Sutherland] with a 'comb of silver combing her golder hair and a mirror of crystal to reflect her face'. The story tells how she was 'wont to take children with her to her grianan but the 'noise of...

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Photograph of the Thocar [Thakur] of Gondal [presumedly] and a woman sitting in a carriage drawn by two zebras in a courtyard. Two men, grooms, are holding the zebras heads in the late 19th or early 20th century.

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Photograph of people in and next to motor cars on a ship next to turbines in the early 20th century. The text beneath the image notes the length and wieght of the shafts in the ship, the number of first, second and third class passengers and the number of crew aboard.

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