View of eight photographic portraits from unknown locations. The upper three images are of 'posed' male figures, the outer two only show the torso. The central two images are of a female and child wi ...

Description View of eight photographic portraits from unknown locations. The upper three images are of 'posed' male figures, the outer two only show the torso. The central two images are of a female and child with dog, left, and another dog portrait, right. The lower three images show another three 'posed' male portraits with the left image showing only the bust and the central and right image showing seated males in garden settings. None of the people or locations have been identified. PHOTOGRAPH ALBUM No. 187, (cf PAs 186 and 188) Rev. J.B. MacKenzie of Colonsay Albums,1870, vol.2.

Date c. 1861 to 1911

Collection General Collection. Photograph Albums.

Catalogue Number PA 187/11

Category All Other

Copy of PA 187

Copies DP 157292

Scope and Content These albums were owned by Revd. JB Mackenzie, minister of Colonsay 1861-72 and of Kenmore 1872-1911. They contain large, high quality photographs taken in the late 1860s and early 1870s and were at one time in the possession of the Society of Antiquaries. Many of them show rock formations on Colonsay and carved stones there and at Oronsay, Keills, Loch Swyn and other locations in Knapdale. At one cross at Keills a man with a gun is posed beside a lady with a small coggie and four sheep. There is a view of the village and ruins of Kilmory, Point of Knap with a man sitting on an upturned basket with a rather blurred horse. Other ruins at Ealan Naomh include “an oven-shaped building locally regarded as the tomb of St. Columba’s mother.”

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