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Six photographs showing antiquated methods of cultivation in China, Formosa, India, Sudan, Egypt and Morocco in the early/mid 20th century. Each of the images shows a man using cattle or camels (Sudan and Egypt) and hand ploughs in fields.

Scope and Contents Archaeological notes on Bogha na Cille [also Bogha na h-Eaglais or Bogha an Teampull, Na Hearadh/Isle of Harris] describing it as having 'quite visible walls' being 16 or 18 fathoms deep on a good fishing bank opposite the Manse and Scarasta [Sgarasta]. Tobar Rua is described as being 'old & burnt' and built like the mouth of a drain'. The story tells how the south side of the sand bank between Taransay [Tarasaigh] and Loscintir [Losgaintir/Luskentyre] was so large 100 years ago that it...

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Photograph of a man plowing a field with two Clydesdale horses in the late 19th or early 20th century.

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Fragment of a story about a man ploughing on La Brianan [St Brendan's Day]. The little text that there is here is unclear.

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Photograph of a man using a hand plough harnessed to a team of horses to plant maize in a field at Hawkesbury Agricultual College, Richmond, New South Wales, Australia in the early 20th century.

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Photograph of a man using a hand-plough harnessed to three Draught horses to plough a field in the early 20th century.

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Photograph of a Manjha bull from the Lahore District which was used for ploughing. Part of the Survey of India Office, Calcutta, January 1903.

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Photograph of men in a field using Draught horses to pull hand-ploughs to plough fields in the early 20th century.

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Photograph of Mexican farm workers standing in a line with their ploughs and horses in a field in the early 20th century.

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Note about a man who recollects the Aoi isthmus [Uidh, Tarasaigh/Taransay] being ploughed although it is now 'sand hills and a big strand washed by the sea'.