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Houses

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Subject Source: Sss
Scope Note: Created For = CW

Found in 69 Collections and/or Records:

Story entitled 'Daoine Sith' about getting rid of the fairies, May 1874

 Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW108/133
Scope and Contents Story entitled 'Daoine Sith' collected from Cairiseadar [Cairisiadar/Carishader, Eilean Leòdhais /Isle of Lewis] about a man who gets help from the fairies to build his house but then runs out of work for them. On the advice of an old man he suggests they make roof couples for each end of the house out of fiodhag (wild fig or wild cherry) but the fairies refuse. He then asks them to make rope the thickness of a thumb from clean sand to hold down the thatch and they fail to do this. The...
Dates: May 1874

Texas Ranch House, William Coleman, 1870s-1930s

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Identifier: Coll-1434/2920
Scope and Contents

Photograph of William Coleman's Texas ranch house in the early 20th century.

Dates: 1870s-1930s

The House Which Gave Its Name to "The Oaks", 1870s-1930s

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Identifier: Coll-1434/1953
Scope and Contents

Photograph and description of the mansion, "The Oaks", in Banstead, Surrey, England in the early 20th century. The text beneath the image notes that the house was originally purchased in the 1700's by General Burgoyne and then sold to the Earl of Derby, who in 1779 instituted a horse race, "The Oaks" for 'three-year old fillies to be run on the neighboring downs' which was named after the house.

Dates: 1870s-1930s

The Residency, Nagpur, [India], 1870s-1930s

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Identifier: Coll-1434/2536
Scope and Contents

Photograph of the Residency, the home of the Chief Commissioner, in Nagpur, India in the early 20th century. According to the text beneath the image, 'Nagpur is the juncition of the Great Indian Peninsula Railway with the Bengal Nagpur Railway.'

Dates: 1870s-1930s

Todas at Home, 1870s-1930s

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Identifier: Coll-1434/2631
Scope and Contents

Photograph of a Toda family in front of their home, a barrel-shaped, thatched-roof structure in a woodland in Southern India in the early 20th century.

Dates: 1870s-1930s

Vocabulary note for Eiteag and accompanying song fragment, 7 August 1886

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW122/19
Scope and Contents

Vocabulary note collected from Duncan Cameron, police officer, Lochaline [Loch Àlainn, Earra Ghàidheal/Argyllshire] which reads 'Eiteag = Quay stone egg shaped Deideag = .' The song fragment begins 'San an tai ghlas a bha n Deideag' and a note added reads 'See Allt-an t suain'.

Dates: 7 August 1886

Vocabulary note relating to thatch, 1894

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW122/143
Scope and Contents

Vocabulary note which reads 'Dromanach = the forked stick going into the thatch of a house. Sguilbh Sgolbh = the rods going into the thatch along the edge.'

Dates: 1894

Vocabulary note which reads 'Praban Refuse Shebeen', 1894

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW122/163
Scope and Contents

Vocabulary note which reads 'Praban Refuse Shebeen'.

Dates: 1894

Warlaby House, 1870s-1930s

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Identifier: Coll-1434/1237
Scope and Contents

Drawing from a photograph 'taken by the author' [unknown] of Thomas Booth's residence, Warlaby House in 1892. This was the house he moved to in 1819 after leaving Killerby.

Dates: 1870s-1930s