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Early 1900s (?) kilts in Inverness. via X Marks the Scot.
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Lt Colonel William Campbell, 1865 – More vintage kilts courtesy of X Marks the Scot.
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Scottish dancing, apparently near Loch Eck? Via XMarksTheScot, a wonderful kilt forum. I hope I haven’t reposted this before – I think not.
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Lovely smile – and always a sucker for long muttonchops. Hey kids, why not bring that look back?
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The amazing life of Colonel Alexander Gardner is usually the stuff of fiction or Hollywood melodrama…
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“Archibald McKinnon was born in the parish of Duirinish on the Isle of Skye, Scotland, around the year 1845. He came to the Colony of Victoria with his parents and sisters on the ship “Star of the South” in 1857…With his wife Marion he established a farm and raised a family at Narrewillock in northern Victoria. It was here that an unknown traveling photographer found him in late 1903 and took a series of photographs of his family and farm which have fortunately survived. His daughter Kate recalled that in this photo (below) he was wearing a MacLeod tartan.“ [which would make sense since Duirinish is right next to Dunvegan Castle, seat of the MacLeods]
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A carte-de-visite portrait of a kilted Scotsman with a bald head and thick white beard, wearing a mourning band around the arm of his jacket.
Photographed by A.F. Mackenzie of Birnam in Perthshire.
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Captain Cuninghame, 42nd Royal Highland Regiment, Crimea 1855.
You are looking at photographical history, Roger Fenton’s pictures of the Crimea basically invented and proved the use of war photography.
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Piper George MacDonald, Bunacaimb, Morar, photographed by Miss M E M Donaldson about 1910.
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It seems as Victorian era went on, the kilts and paraphernalia got more and more ornate…
