Quick Search
|
Search Results
22 items
items as
Grinding Corn in Skye
3220 A print of a George Washington Wilson photograph showing a couple grinding and winnowing grain on Skye in 1885. Planting Potatoes in Skye
3221 A print of a George Washington Wilson photograph of a group farming on the island of Skye in around 1885. The man are using the caschrom, or foot plough, and the women are fertilizing the ground with seaweed. Spinning of wool on Skye
3313 A print of a George Washington Wilson photograph showing a woman demonstrating the spinning of wool. The woman has obviously put on her best clothes for the occasion but is still wearing her heavy everyday tacketted boots. Crofter's home on Skye
3314 A print of a George Washington Wilson photograph showing a crofter's home on Skye. People of Skye
3315 A print of a George Washington Wilson photograph showing two men in front of a crofter's home. Skye crofter
3316 Another photograph taken by George Washington Wilson. The photograph is shows a crofter on Skye. The man is using a caschrom, or foot plough. Cas chrom on Skye
3317 A print of a George Washington Wilson photograph showing a woman and a man.
The soil depth was so shallow that a normal spade was often replaced by the cas chrom, the foot plough. Planting potatoes on Skye
3318 A print of a George Washington Wilson photograph of a group farming on the island of Skye. The men are using the caschrom, or foot plough, and the women on the right are fertilizing the ground with seaweed. Going for peats on Skye
3319 A print of a George Washington Wilson photograph showing a woman carrying a creel. Creels were used for carrying all sorts of heavy loads, including peats and meal. Washing day on Skye
3320 A print of a George Washington Wilson photograph showing a group of women on washing day. Homestead on South Uist, Hebrides
3321 A print of a George Washington Wilson photograph showing a hut partially dug into the ground as protection from the wind.
Lobster fisher's hut on South Uist, Hebrides
3322 A print of a George Washington Wilson photograph showing a lobster fisher's hut.
The meagre existence of crofters in the vast landscapes of Hebridean islands is demonstrated vividly in the South Uist images of the huts used by lobster fishermen and kelp makers which are partially dug into the ground as protection from the wind. Kelp maker's hut on South Uist
3323 A print of a George Washington Wilson photograph showing a kelp maker's hut. Fishermen's huts on Orkney
3324 A print of a George Washington Wilson photograph showing fishermen's huts in the area of Stenness, Orkney. Cart on Orkney
3325 This print of a George Washington Wilson photograph was taken on the island of Hoy. It shows an ox that has been harnessed to a cart. Shetland knitter
3326 A print of a George Washington Wilson photograph showing a woman carrying kishies (creels) of peat and continuing with her knitting as she walked. Shetland ponies
3327 This photograph, taken by George Washington Wilson in Shetland, shows a group of ponies in front of a hut. Shetland had indeed ponies to carry or pull loads. Shetland children
3328 A print of a George Washington Wilson photograph showing a group of children. Most of them are barefoot. Herring in Shetland
3329 George Washington Wilson rarely gave us an insight into industrial life but he obviously found that herring fishing offered these fascinating images of harbour scenes with arrays of boats, sails and barrels.
Women worked in the open air at the troughs (farlins) gutting the newly landed herring, salting and packing them into the barrels which the men later closed before loading them on to the larger sailing vessels for export to Germany and Russia.
Herring in Scotland
3330 The women were seasonal workers travelling from coastal villages in Moray and North-east Scotland as they followed the migration of the herring shoals. Fingal's Cave on Staffa
3332 This photograph was taken by George Washington Wilson.
Wilson made arrangements with a local man, Sandy Macdonald, for a rowing boat with four oarsmen to take them to Staffa. George Walker described the problems experienced by Wilson when small clouds racing across the sky caused variations in the light levels thus affecting the exposure times needed for his glass plates.
However, Wilson's skill was such that only one plate of two dozen images was under-exposed. Walker notes "so much were Wilson's views in demand at this time that he could have sold each of these negatives for £10, (about £800 today), thus making £230 (nearly £20,000 today) as his day's work but by selling the views taken from these he must have turned out much more than this large sum". |