Girl on a country holiday, 1880's:
wealth and its trimmings

Lifestyles:
Above:  Sportsmen's picnic, Central Highlands, 1880's

Below:  Old couple in Dundee Overgate, 1929.

The laird relaxing:  an upper-class interior of the late 19th century.

A couple, probably in their forties,
grinding and winnowing grain on Skye, 1885.
 

AThe Provost of Rutherglen and his lady, 1900.

A Glasgow couple outside their tenement, 1948.

Horsepower:  Two-plough teams near Anstruther, Fife, 1940.

Crofter power:  The men are using the caschrom or foot plough,
and the women fertilizing the ground with seaweed, Skye, 1885.

Skill and muscle in heavy industry:

Above:  J. Kerr, blacksmith and A. Marshall, hammerman, Cowlairs, 1889.

Below:  Hewers in a Fife coalmine in the interwar years.

Outside a pub in Springburn, about 1900.

Outside a pub in St Andrews 1910.  The children are buying windmills.

Markinch, Fife, 1897.   Open drains, bare feet, but a small country town.
Straight legs.

Evacuees heading for the country at Dundee railway station 1940:
round every neck a name-tag, in every box, a gas-mask.