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Photograph of an elderly Scottish shepherd, aged 104, sitting on a bench with several sheep skins on his lap in the late 19th or early 20th century.

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Photograph of the Campbell sheep manager with his horse in front of a stable door in Curumalau, Argentina in the early 20th century.

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Fragmentary notes on Tolstadh Bho Thuath [Eilean Leòdhais/Isle of Lewis], landownership and serpents. The writing is difficult to make out but seems to refer to people leaving Tolstadh Bho Thuath and the land being given to a Sas[senach] [Englishman] and managed by a shepherd. There is also mention of a tradition which believes that serpents go into the ground in autumn and appear again in the spring.

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Photograph of a Cheviot ewe's lamb being held by a shepherd who is sitting in a woodland field in the early 20th century.

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Song collected from Gilleaspa MacInnes [Archibald MacInnes], Ionnar Ruai[dh], An t-shraid an ard [High Street, Inbhir Ruaidh/Inverroy, Inverness-shire] beginning 'A liud fear agus [eadside], Agus eadra chai a thachadh'. The song is composed of nine lines and is noted as being composed 'By a Glen Coe man' [Gleann Comhann, Earra Ghàidheal/Argyllshire]. Text has been scored through as if transcribed elsewhere.

Scope and Contents Story entitled 'Cu Du Mhic a Phi' [Cù Dubh Mhic a' Phì] collected from Archibald Currie, shoemaker, Àird na Monadh, Uibhist a Deas/South Uist. The story tells of the wife of the shepherd called Mac a' Phì who lives by Loch Ollabhat and is asked to provide cloth by a lady at Loch Olabhat/Loch Olavat and Bailemhanaich/Balivanich both Beinn na Faoghla/Benbecula. She panics that she will not be able to meet the task and summons the fairies to help. Realising that it was probably unwise to enlist...

Scope and Contents Story entitled 'Ursgeul - An Sagairt agus Bean a Chiabair' collected from Manus Mac Neacail [Magnus Nicolson] Carbost [Càrabost, An t-Eilean Sgitheanach/Isle of Skye]. This tells how a boy finds a dead horse out on a moor. An eagle had started to eat its carcass but had got so full it could no longer fly so the boy takes the eagle with him. He comes across a shepherd's bothy and his wife lets him in. After a while the shepherd's wife sends the boy out into the snow, although he did not want...

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Table showing the number of farm labourers and male shepherds working in Great Britain as noted in the census from 1871 to 1901 which was declining.

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Photograph of a page from the Breeder's Gazette from December 21, 1904. It shows the title and two images from the story, 'The Shepherd Boy of the Southwestern Desert - a Tale of Youthful Fidelity by Joseph E Wing.' One photograph shows a boy with a flock of sheep and the other shows a flock of sheep grazing amongst cacti in the Southwestern desert.