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Alexander Thoms papers

Alexander Thoms papers

MS 180
Collection
Late 19th century-2021

Photographs of geological formations, bird colonies and Polynesia, with letter from M Forster Heddle and obituary of Thoms. Electronic copies of notes and correspondence on photographs

Alexander Thoms

Photographs: the natural world

MS 180/1
Item
19th century

Part of Alexander Thoms papers

Comprises photos of geological formations and bird colonies, nests and eggs particularly in the Hebrides and Shetland; fishing boats, particularly from Banff: close up of fishing boat in harbour with fishermen "Shaking Herring Nets"; portraits of Scottish East Coast Fisherman.

Notes proving further information about some these photographs can be found in MS 180/5

Scuir of Eigg; "Nature's Ruins". Foreground rocks, distant cliffs.

MS 180/1/1
Item
c.1850

Part of Alexander Thoms papers

14x20.5; Album

`Hell's Lum' (Sea Cave in conglomerate)

MS 180/1/10
Item
c.1850

Part of Alexander Thoms papers

20x15; Album

Conglomerate stack.

MS 180/1/11
Item
c.1850

Part of Alexander Thoms papers

20x15; Album

North Rona; `Wave Tunnel', two male figures left of picture.

MS 180/1/12
Item
c.1850

Part of Alexander Thoms papers

15x20; Album

Withered limestone stacks.

MS 180/1/13
Item
c.1850

Part of Alexander Thoms papers

15x20; Album

Scuir of Eigg; `Pitchstone Veins'; Male figure among rocks.

MS 180/1/14
Item
c.1850

Part of Alexander Thoms papers

15x20; Album

Holburn Head; Caithness flagstone.

MS 180/1/15
Item
c.1850

Part of Alexander Thoms papers

15x20; Album

Mhuire Island; Basaltic peak.

MS 180/1/16
Item
c.1850

Part of Alexander Thoms papers

15x20; Album

Red sandstone cave.

MS 180/1/17
Item
c.1850

Part of Alexander Thoms papers

11x15; Album

Wind eroded rocks.

MS 180/1/18
Item
c.1850

Part of Alexander Thoms papers

11x15; Album

Feathered fracture in basalt.

MS 180/1/19
Item
c.1850

Part of Alexander Thoms papers

11x15; Album

Ross of Mull; Basaltic Cave.

MS 180/1/2
Item
c.1850

Part of Alexander Thoms papers

14x20.5; Album

Young sea gulls; fledgelings.

MS 180/1/20
Item
c.1850

Part of Alexander Thoms papers

15x20; Album

Young sea gulls in the nest.

MS 180/1/21
Item
c.1850

Part of Alexander Thoms papers

15x20; Album

"Soulskerry [Seal Skerry]"; Cormorants' colony; with view of lighthouse in distance. Although picture caption is 'Soulskerry' the lighthouse pictured is the 'North Ronaldsay'.

MS 180/1/22
Item
c.1850

Part of Alexander Thoms papers

15x20; Album

Kittiewake, gullimote colony.

MS 180/1/23
Item
c.1850

Part of Alexander Thoms papers

15x20; Album

Sulisgeir; Colony of Solan Geese

MS 180/1/24
Item
c.1850

Part of Alexander Thoms papers

15x20; Album

Nest of the Great Skua, containing egg.

MS 180/1/25
Item
c.1850

Part of Alexander Thoms papers

11x14; Album.

Nest of the Kittiewake, containing eggs.

MS 180/1/26
Item
c.1850

Part of Alexander Thoms papers

11x14; Album

Nest of the Great Black Backed Gull, eggs.

MS 180/1/27
Item
c.1850

Part of Alexander Thoms papers

11x14; Album

Nest of the Great Cormorant, eggs.

MS 180/1/28
Item
c.1850

Part of Alexander Thoms papers

11x14; Album

Yellowhammer's nest, eggs.

MS 180/1/29
Item
c.1850

Part of Alexander Thoms papers

8x10.5; Album

Loch Coruisk; Glaciation.

MS 180/1/3
Item
c.1850

Part of Alexander Thoms papers

15x20; Album

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