Lazy beds, Lochboisdale.
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- ID
- RMA-F-154
- Title
- Lazy beds, Lochboisdale.
- Descriptive titles
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- The caschrome, used when preparing the lazy beds [croft land, near Lochboisdale, South Uist].
- Description
- Man wearing old waistcoat and soft felt hat using right angled spade to dig and turn turves; grass with outcrops beyond. Man smoking pipe, waistcoat with gapping seams. Marshy grass ditch behind man. Rows of seaweed lying on ground beyond the man. The caschrome [cas-chrom] is a foot spade of primitive pattern used by the islanders of South Uist when preparing the lazy beds.
- Collection
- Robert Moyes Adam Scottish Landscape Photography Collection
- Parent record
- RM Adam film and glass negative series Parent record level Series
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- Date
- 12 April 1928
- Department
- Special Collections - Photographic Collections
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- Acknowledgement
- Image courtesy of University of St Andrews Library and D. C. Thomson.
- Conditions
- The Robert Moyes Adam Collection reproduction and licensing rights are jointly held and managed by the University of St Andrews and D. C. Thomson & Co. Ltd. Reproduction for University of St Andrews and D. C. Thomson & Co. Ltd exhibition, publication, research and promotion. Any external or commercial use to be approved/managed by managing partners, which can be facilitated by Special Collections.
- Credit line
- Courtesy of the University of St Andrews Libraries and Museums, ID: RMA-F-154