Collection D11 - Shetland Library Collection

Identity area

Reference code

D11

Title

Shetland Library Collection

Date(s)

  • 1550-2000 (Creation)

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Collection

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Repository

Shetland Archives

Archival history

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Scope and content

An artificial collection of records relating to Shetland, including copied documents, news cuttings, school log book 1868-1874, biographical material, photographs, printed material, legal papers, accounts, notes and transcripts concerning crofting and agriculture, whaling and fishing, air services, Shetlanders and people connected with Shetland, archaeology, Shetland Chamber of Commerce, churches, education, economic development, genealogy, folk-lore, geology, Shetland in the First World War and the Second World War, knitwear, Lerwick Harbour Trust, Lerwick Town Hall, lifeboats, literature, Shetland Literary and Scientific Society, medical services, music, ornithology, Shetland ponies, postal services, population, Royal Air Force, shipping, drama and operatics and Up Helly-Aa, 1724-1975. The collection was largely assembled by George Longmuir, librarian

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      Finding aids

      Generated finding aid

      shetland-library-collection.pdf

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