Collections

Album of autographs and drawings collected by Annie Grace Duncan (nee Robertson) of the Whitehouse, Stromness (1888 - 1889)

ID: 2023.003

Model kayak  made of skin with bone figure, seal, harpoons and hunting equipment held on with leather snow straps. Bone tip at front but missing from back.  

ID: 2023.004

model kayak made from bone, mounted on wooden plinth with bone feet.  Figure sitting in kayak with paddle accross front and hunting equipmenmt strapped to the sides.  float on back and soapstone se

ID: 2023.005
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Wool work tapestry framed picture featuring two sailing ships at sea, a landscape background with three mountains.  "GO YE TO ALL NATIONS" is embroidered at the bottom.

ID: 2024.001
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wool work picture featuring two masted sailing ships at sea with a landscape background with three mountains.  "Go Ye To All Nations" inscription

ID: 2024.001

Fitsroy Barometer in a wooden case

ID: 2024.002

Collection of 25 sepia photographic prints of Stromness and surrounding area.

 

ID: 2024.004 1-25
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Sepia postcard photo of the boat 'Flying Kestrel' tied up at a pier in Stromness. 

ID: 2024.005.1
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Sepia postcard photograph of Flying Kestrel at sea with three people standing at railing.

ID: 2024.005.2

Album of 17 black and white photographs commemorating the launch of the MV Pole Star by Lady Machonochie of Dundee, 28 April 1961. 

ID: 2024.006