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Bedding

 Subject

Staff Only
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Created For = CW

Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

Hungarian Cattle, Mezohegyes, Bedding Maize Stalks, 1870s-1930s

 Item
Identifier: Coll-1434/884
Scope and Contents

Photograph of Hungarian cattle in a paddock next to a modern cowshed with maize stalks for their bedding in Mezohegyes, Hungary in the early 20th century.

Dates: 1870s-1930s
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Roslin Slide Collection

Note about the use of horse and cow hair in bedding, 20 January 1871

 Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW116/162
Scope and Contents

Note collected from Alexander MacDonald, Cladach Chirceboist/Claddach Kirkibost, Uibhist a Tuath/North Uist which reads 'Covers and blankets of horse & cows hair were the common bed clothes in Uist ri linn a Mhoraire Bhain' [in Am Morair Bàn's time].

Dates: 20 January 1871
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Carmichael-Watson Collection / Field notebook of Alexander Carmichael