Show us your Vintage Kilt Photos

[Radge]

Early WW2 King George talks to Pipe Major Lamb of the Royal Irish Fusiliers.


Piper provides the music.



Drum Major Alfred Goodman, London Scottish. Queen Victoria's Silver Jubilee, 1897.

[BoldHighlander]

Record Number LHG-1-33
Title: Douglas [Gilmour] and Netta [Gilmour] fishing.
Collection: Lady Gilmour
Image Type: full plate glass negative
Originator: Lady Henrietta Gilmour
Location: Fife, Scotland
Date: ca.1891

Description:
Two children fishing off rocky riverbank, the girl in summer dress and boater, with a net, boy in kilt and sporran, with rod.

Notes:
LHG-1-33 pc/
BIOG: Douglas Gilmour (1889-1916), the fifth and youngest son of the photographer and Sir John Gilmour, 1st baronet of Lundin and Montrave; died of wounds received in action during World War I. Seen with his sister, Henrietta (1884-1962), younger daughter of the family; married Robert Purvis of Gilmerton, youngest son of John Purvis of Kinaldy, in 1904.

It's been pointed out that there is a discrepancy between the date of the photo (ca.1891) & the apparent age of the child in the kilt. There is no way he's 2 yrs of age. A more likely guess would be around 6 yrs of age, putting the photo around ca.1897

[BoldHighlander]

I wish to apologize in advance for the watermarks that obscure some portions of the photos. I'll be hunting around for 'clean' versions, and replacing/editing these as (or if) I do.


Record Number: GMC-3-14-18
Title: Braemar Gathering. Boys doing Highland dancing.
Collection: G M Cowie
Image Type: 1/4 plate glass negative
Originator: George Middlemass Cowie
Location: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Date: [8 September] 1938


Record Number: GMC-3-14-17
Title: Braemar Gathering. Boys doing Highland dancing.
Collection: G M Cowie
Image Type: 1/4 plate glass negative
Originator: George Middlemass Cowie
Location: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Date: [8 September] 1938


Record Number: GMC-3-14-15
Title: Braemar Gathering. Girls looking at the bass drum of the pipe band watched by the drum major.
Collection: G M Cowie
Image Type: 1/4 plate glass negative
Originator: George Middlemass Cowie
Location: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Date: [8 September] 1938


Record Number: GMC-3-14-12
Title: Mr J B Hosie, Factor at Mar, with Mrs Myrtle Farquharson or D'Erlanger of Invercauld and daughter Zoe. Highlanders behind.
Collection: G M Cowie
Image Type: 1/4 plate glass negative
Originator: George Middlemass Cowie
Location: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Date: [8 September] 1938

Notes: GMC-3-14-12
PUBL: "The Braemar Gathering Annual 2007" Article by Craig Nisbet 'The Braemar Gathering through the lens of George Middlemass Cowie'. p71.
ADD: Mrs Myrtle D'Erlanger was the 15th Laird of Invercauld. She was killed by a bomb in 1941 and her nephew became the 16th laird.


Record Number: GMC-3-16-1
Title: South St, St Andrews. Drum major adjusting the pipes of a boy piper.
Collection: G M Cowie
Image Type: 1/4 plate glass negative
Originator: George Middlemass Cowie
Location: Fife, Scotland
Date: [September] 1938
Description: Pipe major and boy piper in full highland dress, in grounds of large building.

Notes: GMC-3-16-1
INFO: Negative box labeled - Braemar Gathering 1938.
ADD: Open area before Madras College. The drum major and piper are members of the St Andrews' Pipe Band; see GMC-9-81 to GMC-9-8-6.


Record Number: GMC-3-16-3
Title: South St, St Andrews. Drum major and boy piper.
Collection: G M Cowie
Image Type: 1/4 plate glass negative
Originator: George Middlemass Cowie
Location: Fife, Scotland
Date: [September] 1938

Description:
Pipe major and boy piper in full highland dress, in grounds of large building.
Notes:GMC-3-16-3
INFO: Negative box labeled - Braemar Gathering 1938.
ADD: Open area before Madras College. The drum major and piper are members of the St Andrews' Pipe Band; see GMC-9-81 to GMC-9-8-6.

[BoldHighlander]

Record Number: GMC-3-16-4
Title: South St, St Andrews. Drum major and boy piper.
Collection: G M Cowie
Image Type: 1/4 plate glass negative
Originator: George Middlemass Cowie
Location: Fife, Scotland
Date: [September] 1938
Description: Pipe major and boy piper in full highland dress, in grounds of large building.
Notes: GMC-3-16-4
INFO: Negative box labeled - Braemar Gathering 1938.
ADD: Open area before Madras College. The drum major and piper are members of the St Andrews' Pipe Band; see GMC-9-81 to GMC-9-8-6.


Record Number: GMC-3-17-4
Title: Braemar Gathering. King George VI and Queen Elizabeth and the Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret standing in pavilion doorway.
Collection: G M Cowie
Image Type: 1/4 plate glass negative
Originator: George Middlemass Cowie
Location: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Date: [8 September] 1938
Notes: GMC-3-17-4
ADD: The Royal party are watching the parade.


Record Number: RMA-S168
Title: Maclean Camp Ardno, Loch Fyne.
Collection: R M Adam
Image Type: small 1/4 plate glass negative
Originator: Robert Moyes Adam
Location: Argyllshire, Scotland
Date: 23 August 1905

Description: Large family group sitting round camp fire preparing meal with bell tent behind; bracken and conifers in background.
Notes: RMA-S168
DETAIL: Men in kilts and plus twos with gaiters holding bagpipes, axe and fly fishing rod. Women and girls in blouses and skirts, mostly sitting and eating. Pots and pans and jug of milk on left by tent guy ropes.


Record Number: RMA-H4194
Title: Dogs with boy in kilt on moors at Braemore. Maiden Pap and Morven in background.
Collection: R M Adam
Image Type: 1/2 plate glass negative
Originator: Robert Moyes Adam
Location: Caithness, Scotland
Date: 21 May 1935

Description: Young man in kilt and jacket standing on moor with group of dogs, mountains behind.
Notes: RMA-H4194 OS 16 jf/mb/[/FONT]

Though the following photo does not show a kilt, I love this study of this young lad (circa 1860) & his tweed outfit

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Record Number: ALB1-86
Title: Small Portraits 1855-1865. Seton Stewart [Steuart?], Touch House, Stirling.
Collection: General Album 1
Image Type: print
Originator: Thomas Rodger
Location: Scotland
Date: ca.1860

Description:Half-length portrait of boy in tweed jacket, sporran and glengarry, with crook.
Notes: ALB1-86 (p 37) mb/
ADD: Portfolio presented to the University of St Andrews by Mr James Thomson, a descendant of one of the collectors, in memory of his son, Laurence Swan Thomson (1917-1934), and catalogued by Mr J H Read.


Record Number: JV-G5484
Title: Berwick-on-Tweed. At the Old Toll and Marriage House, Lamberton.
Collection: Valentine
Image Type: 1/2 plate film negative
Originator: J Valentine & Co
Location: Berwickshire, Scotland
Date Registered: 21 September 1936

Description:Boy in highland dress, knocking on wooden door and holding hand of girl in dress, short socks and shoes; plaque above door.
Notes: JV-G5484 pc/mb/jf/mb

[BoldHighlander]

Checking supplies in a jeep, glider pilots (far left & right) wearing kilts, prepare to move towards Arnhem (Sept 1944):

[BoldHighlander]

Piper George MacDonald, Bunacaimb, Morar, photographed by Miss M E M Donaldson about 1910.

[M. A. C. Newsome]

Piper George MacDonald, Bunacaimb, Morar, photographed by Miss M E M Donaldson about 1910.

If I'm not mistaken, he's wearing true cadadh, hose cut and sewn from the tartan cloth, not knit.

I also like the effect of using a different tartan for the waistcoat and kilt.

[sfb]

These are fantastic, fascinating pictures. Thanks for putting them up.

[BoldHighlander]

I don't believe the following two photos have been posted yet (if so I apologize):

[hospitaller]

Checking supplies in a jeep, glider pilots (far left & right) wearing kilts, prepare to move towards Arnhem (Sept 1944):

Since all references point to kilts not being work after Dunkirk, could you elaborate or provide more details for this photo?

ie: original publication? how did you identify the kilted men as glider pilots?

The only kilted 1st Airborne pilot I know of was Capt Ogilvie, KIA in late September, so having 2 inthe same photo is a first for me

Thanks in advance.