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Album of drawings of `An eight week`s tour in Scotland taken by ten Douglas`s`.

 Collection
Identifier: Acc.13363
Scope and Contents

Drawings made on a tour in Scotland in 1845. Places visited include Dalkieth, Edinburgh, Roslin chapel, the Trossachs, Glencoe, Tyndrum, Ballahulish, Kinlochmore, Loch Leven, Dunolly Castle, Inverary, Newbattle and Hoddam Castle.

Dates: 1845

Anonymous album of a visit to Scotland entitled `Oban, 1919`.

 File
Identifier: Acc.13169
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 1919.

Drawings, photographs, maps, plans and prints, largely from the Cities and Town Planning Exhibition devised by Sir Patrick Geddes.

 Collection
Identifier: Acc.13319
Scope and Contents The Cities and Town Planning Exhibition was originally conceived in conjunction with the first Town Planning Conference of 1910 organised by the Royal Institute of British Architects, at Burlington House, London, to mark the passing of the Housing and Town Planning Act, 1909. Patrick Geddes was asked to be its Director and used it to demonstrate his method of city survey. After the conference, Geddes toured the exhibition to cities interested in learning about the latest developments in...
Dates: 1649-1919, undated

Pen and ink drawings of views in Edinburgh and vicinity.

 Item
Identifier: Acc.9401
Scope and Contents

Possibly made for engraving.

Dates: 1826.

Photographs, 1917, of nursing staff and patients at 2nd Scottish General Hospital, Craigleith, Edinburgh.

 Item
Identifier: Acc.10189
Scope and Contents

Includes later photographs of views in Egypt and Palestine on a voyage in the eastern Mediterranean.

Dates: 1917 and undated.

Scrapbook, photograph album and typescript magazines of and relating to Isobel Wylie Hutchison and her siblings.

 Collection
Identifier: Acc.13412
Scope and Contents

Scrapbook, photograph album and typescript magazines, ca.1894 – 1900, of and relating to Isobel Wylie Hutchison and her siblings, the children of Thomas Hutchison, Merchant, Edinburgh [b.1841]. The typescript magazines and many of the photographs relate to the Hutchison children’s childhood at Carlowrie.

Dates: ca.1894-1900

Sketchbooks of Frank H. Young, Civil Engineer, Edinburgh.

 Collection
Identifier: Acc.13270
Scope and Contents

Four of the five sketchbooks contain humorous pen and ink drawings of domestic, street, railway and sporting scenes. There are several drawings of scenes on a visit to Ballater and Braemar of July 1890. One sketchbook is devoted entirely to scenes outside and inside the Music Hall, Edinburgh.

Dates: 1889-1895, undated

The Melrosian Annual, 1888

 Collection
Identifier: Acc.13258
Scope and Contents Manuscript volume consisting of essays, short stories, anecdotes and verse contributed by past and present members of staff of the firm of Andrew Melrose, Edinburgh, Tea Dealers and Grocers. Many of the contributions are reminiscences of the shop and its customers including Professor John Stuart Blackie, f.198, Edinburgh and society. The volume is illustrated with a few pen and ink drawings.Inscribed W.R.M. on inside front cover. With note at the front affirming that this volume...
Dates: 1888, 1917

Women`s Social and Political Union postcard album.

 Collection
Identifier: Acc.4546
Scope and Contents

Including cards, photographs, newspaper cuttings and printed and manuscript papers.

Dates: circa 1900-circa 1914.

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Andrew Melrose, Edinburgh, Tea Dealers and Grocers 1
Blackie, John Stuart (Professor of Greek, University of Edinburgh) 1
Geddes, Sir Patrick, Knight, sociologist, 1854-1932 1
Hill, David Octavius, photographer, 1802-1870 1
Hutchison, Isobel Wylie (botanist and traveller) 1