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Album of topographical views and figure studies of a tour in Scotland and England, of Revd. George Ernest Howman. Places visited in Scotland include Bridge of Fyers, Blair Atholl, Killicrankie, Dunkeld, Killin, Callendar, the Trossachs, Stirling, Dunblane, Scone Palace, Perth, Castle Huntly, Dundee, Leuchars, St Andrews, Loch Leven, Linlithgow, Craigmillar Castle, Roslin Chapel and Melrose.
Album of verses, riddles and drawings.
Most of the entries are dated from 1825 to 1828, and some were made at Newcastle- upon-Tyne. The book belonged to the donor's grandmother, Mrs Elizabeth Russell Davison, of the Wilson family of Roxburghshire.
Album of Walter Bowman.
Contains manuscript letters, prints, drawings and watercolours.
Album owned by Private W J Little.
Containing, "Seaweed from Lord Kitchener`s Grave off Marwick Head, Orkney".
Album, probably compiled by David Macdonald, printer, Edinburgh, containing letters and signatures of his correspondents; together with some letters formerly placed loosely amongst the pages of the album.
The letters are of interest only as autographs, and it is clear from the mutilated state of the album, as well as from the index found in it, that many other letters are missing, the pages on which they had been pasted having been clumsily cut out.
Albums compiled by John P. Ritchie and related material.
Two albums of and relating to John P. Ritchie largely concerning ornithology especially of Saint Kilda. With a bronze plaque for 1st Prize in Beginners Lantern Slides, 1930, awarded to John P Ritchie by the Paisley Philosophical Institution and his inscribed copy of John Morrell McWilliam`s `The Birds of Bute`, 1927.
Albums of autographs and letters addressed to or collected by Mrs Isabella Bishop, nee Bird.
Albums of caricatures by John A Hipkins, wood-engraver, with scrap-books containing material collected by or associated with him.
The volumes, which have been arranged and provided with biographical notes and lists of contents by John A Hipkins's sister, Miss Edith J Hipkins, the painter, illustrate the cultivated life of London in the late nineteenth century and the early twentieth. Since Hipkins himself was deaf, there is much material relating to the artistic and other activities of the deaf.
Albums of letters and documents, almost entirely of Scottish interest, written by or relating to historical celebrities, and dealing with public and private affairs.
Albums of photographs of Highland Railway locomotives, compiled and annotated circa 1950.
Albums relating to Robert Mossman and the Scottish National Antarctic Expedition, 1902-1905.
Annotated books concerning the Spanish Civil War.
Three books containing signatures of members of the International Brigades and of some members of the future Labour Cabinets of 1945 and thereafter.
Annotated copy of "The Iona Autograph Album", presented to Patrick Geddes and Anna Geddes by `Fiona Macleod` (William Sharp).
Annotated photograph albums of the rock climbing and mountaineering activities of Harry MacRobert.
Anonymous album of a visit to Scotland entitled `Oban, 1919`.
This album records a visit to Scotland by three women, Winnifred, Joan and Mona in August 1919. The friends visited Oban, Dunollie, Dunstaffnage, Staffa, Glencoe and Edinburgh. The album consists of photographs and postcards with observations on their experiences.
Antiquarian album of Adam de Cardonnel-Lawson.
Contains several hundred prints and drawings.
Archive of An Comunn Gàidhealach.
The archive of An Comunn Gàidhealach, consisting of minutes, financial records, commemorative volumes and scrapbooks, and a miscellany of music and prose. Most of the contents of the archive date from the foundation of An Comunn Gàidhealach in 1891 to the 1970s, with a few sections dating from more recent times.
Autograph album compiled about the middle of the 19th century presumably by the James Robertson whose signature appears at the beginning.
Autograph album containing entries mostly of zoologists and palaeontologists.
Autograph album of Alison E. Fraser, Birchwood, Inverness.
Autograph album, 1918-1920, of Alison E. Fraser, Birchwood, Inverness. The album contains many sketches, poems and handwritten notes from those who had stayed in or passed through Birchwood during this period. Many entries are by American and Canadian servicemen based in the area, including at Invergordon and Inverness.
Autograph album of Cherna Schotz.
With inscriptions by, among others, Duncan Grant, Hugh MacDiarmid and Francis George Scott.
Autograph album of Frances M Stevenson.
Contains sketches, watercolours and verses.
Autograph album of H F Lloyd, manager of the Theatre Royal, Edinburgh.
Much of the material is from letters to H F Lloyd written between 1838 and 1850 by members of the theatrical profession.