Cats
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Created For = NAHSTE
Found in 20 Collections and/or Records:
Chilliwack, B[ritish] C[olumbia], [Canada], Kittens, 1870s-1930s
Item
Identifier: Coll-1434/2527
Scope and Contents
Photograph of two kittens 'playing' checkers or draughts in Chilliwack, B[ritish] C[olumbia], [Canada] in the early 20th century.
Dates:
1870s-1930s
Cure for 'King's evil' [scrofula], September 1909
Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW117/120
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Cure for 'King's evil' [scrofula] using blood of a black cat. Text has been scored through as if transcribed elsewhere.
Dates:
September 1909
Expression which reads 'Rinn e suilean a chait ruim', 1887
Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW120/340
Scope and Contents
Expression which reads 'Rinn e suilean a chait rium' meaning 'growing wild at me'.
Dates:
1887
Field notebook belonging to Alexander Carmichael, 1887
Series
Identifier: Coll-97/CW89
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Field notebook belonging to Alexander Carmichael probably while he lived at 31, Raeburn Place, Edinburgh, as this address is written in ink on the first folio. Written on the inside front cover but heavily scored is text which reads 'Mrs Malcolm MacLeod, [- Islay], widow of Mal[colm] MacLeod [Loch-]. The majority of the notebook contains material collected from Donald Currie, crofter, Ìle/ Islay relating folklore and natural history about the birds, fish, shellfish and animals found in and...
Dates:
1887
Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Sir Claud Alexander, 01 September 1911
Item
Identifier: Coll-14/9/17/49
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Alexander writes that he will visit the clouded leopard when in London and complains at the Zoo's ignorance when it comes to curing dysentery and diarrhoea in cats. He suggests that if Ewart wishes him to do anything he should inform the authorities at the Zoo. The Przewalski's colt is doing well although Alexander does not think he has served any mares yet.
Dates:
01 September 1911
Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Sir Frederick Thomas George Hobday, 20 September 1903
Item
Identifier: Coll-14/9/9/105
Scope and Contents
Hobday reports on the kittens of an unusual cat with six toes to each foot and asks if Ewart would like any of them.
Dates:
20 September 1903
Note describing the wild cat, June 1887
Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW89/198
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Note describing the wild cat which reads 'The old wild cat was not so low in the leg + those in the museu[m] bigger in body head + skin striped like tiger'.
Dates:
June 1887
Note of a cure for falling sickness, September 1909
Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW117/84
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Note which states that sacrificing a black cat or a black cock is a cure for falling sickness [epilepsy]. Text has been scored through as if transcribed elsewhere.
Dates:
September 1909
Notes about shellfish and accompanying story about a drowned cat, June 1887
Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW89/148
Scope and Contents
Notes about shellfish that the 'Maorach-mor [is] larger than Musgan' [razor-fish]; that a rat can eat a razor-fish by putting a stone in one end of it that 'Maorach iallai' is gathered at night; and a story about a cat in Leac a LÌ/Lackalee, Na Hearadh/Isle of Harris, which got its tongue caught under a limpet, the limpet closed over it and the cat drowned. Each line of this text has been scored through horizontally.
Dates:
June 1887
Proverb beginning 'Bu tu fein an sealgair ors a mhial-chu ris a chat', c1893
Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW126g/31
Scope and Contents
Proverb which reads 'Bu tu fein an sealgair ors a mhial-chu ris a chat Ga do lasgairt anns an luaithe chuid.'
Dates:
c1893