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24 photographs of views in Scotland, by George Washington Wilson and James Valentine.
Item
Identifier: Acc.6157
Dates:
circa 1880.
30 photographs of views in Scotland, by George Washingon Wilson.
Item
Identifier: Acc.6156
Dates:
circa 1875.
Album compiled by Florence Bankes of watercolours and photographs of Italy, Scotland and Cornwall.
Item
Identifier: Acc.13733
Scope and Contents
This album consists largely watercolours of places visited in Scotland, Italy, Switzerland, Devon and Cornwall between 1910 and 1924. Many are signed Florrie Bankes, or F.B. Places depicted include Loch Laggan, Loch Achray, Loch Katrine, Ackergill Tower, Balmacarra, the castle of Eilean Donan and Loch Duich, Taynuilt, Loch Etive, Ben Cruachan, Glenfinnan, Loch Shiel, the road to Mallaig, Gruinard, Tarbert, Loch Fyne, Lochaillort, Loch Feochan.The album also includes a number of...
Dates:
1910-1924, 1955.
Album concerning Thomas Carlyle.
Item
Identifier: Acc.10484
Scope and Contents
Includes press cuttings, photographs and a portrait of Carlyle.
Dates:
late 19th century.
Album entitled 'Military autographs', containing fourteen photographs of British and French generals and two signatures pasted in; together with a collection of autographs chiefly concerning the 1st Duke of Wellington, which were tipped in or loosely enclosed in the album, but have now been removed and are kept separately.
Series
Identifier: MSS.15351-15352
Dates:
19th century.
Album of Draycott House, Derbyshire.
Item
Identifier: MS.3009
Scope and Contents
Hugh Scott of Draycott (Draycot, Draycote) House, a Captain in the East India Marine, was a son of Walter Scott of Raeburn (died 1830) and cousin of Sir Walter Scott of Abbotsford. The album, compiled by Hugh Scott's descendants, contains letters of Sir Walter Scott and members of his family, printed matter relating to the subscription raised to purchase Abbotsford for the Scott family, drawings and photographs of Draycott, notes on family history by William Scott of Raeburn (died 1855),...
Dates:
Mid 19th century-1936.
Album of Euphemia Inglis, "Great Homes... Visited and Described by Innes Adair".
Item
Identifier: Acc.8493
Scope and Contents
Contains cuttings of articles on historic houses published by Inglis in the "Weekly Scotsman", photographs, notes and letters.
Dates:
1898-1902.
Albums of photographs of Highland Railway locomotives, compiled and annotated circa 1950.
Series
Identifier: MSS.19984-19985
Dates:
19th century, 1920-1929.
Albums relating to Robert Mossman and the Scottish National Antarctic Expedition, 1902-1905.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.13649
Scope and Contents
Scrapbook relating to Robert Mossman and the Scottish National Antarctic Expedition, 1902-1905. The scrapbook includes: Mossman`s commission as 2nd Lieutenant in the 1st Edinburgh City Volunteer Artillery, 1893; 17 letters, 1902-1905, of Mossman to his father and `Isabella`, concerning his journey and experiences on board ship, destinations on his journey including Kngstown in Ireland, Madeira, the Cape Verde Islands, Port Stanley, the South Orkneys and Buenos Aires; a letter of William...
Dates:
1893-1938
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.
Autograph album of Jacca R A McLaren Hay
...
Identifier: Acc.13578
Scope and Contents
Autograph album of the composer and accompanist of singers Jacca R A McLaren Hay, who lived in Stirling. Dated entries range from 1926 to 1986, and include photographs, signatures, drawings and some letters. Among those who signed are American pianist Martha Baird Rockefeller, the English contralto Clara Butt-Rumford, the English composer and pianist Percy Benedict Kahn, the Scottish tenor Joseph Hislop, the German mezzo-soprano singer Elena Gerhardt, the English pianist Ivor Newton, the...
Dates:
1926-1986
Correspondence and papers of and concerning Sir Robert Murdoch Smith.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.9569
Scope and Contents
Concerning Murdoch Smith`s archaeological and diplomatic activities, as used by W K Dickson in his "Life" (1901).
Dates:
1855-1902.
Correspondence and papers of James Connell and Sons.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.7797
Scope and Contents
Includes:
420 letters, 1897-1934, of Sir David Y Cameron to James Connell and Sons, concerning his etchings and paintings
letters, 1912-1941, to James Connell from correspondents including Sir Muirhead Bone, Jacob Epstein and Sir Alfred Munnings
three volumes of press cuttings, 1890-1952, concerning James Connell and Sons
associated document and photographs.
Dates:
1890-1952.
Correspondence, photographs and antiquarian collection on Pictish symbol stones, of Cosmo Gordon.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.12803
Dates:
circa 1910-1965
Correspondence, photographs and antiquarian collections on Pictish symbol-stones, of Cosmo Gordon.
Collection
Identifier: Dep.272- is now Acc.12803.
Dates:
20th century.
Diaries, albums and photographs of the Campbell, Login and Maitland Mackgill Crichton familes.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.12549
Dates:
circa 1803-1965.
Diaries, logs, official correspondence and other papers of Lieutenant-Colonel Charles A C Gordon, MC, RA, mostly relating to the 11th Siege Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.8969/1-78
Scope and Contents
The papers mostly concern Gordon`s command of the 11th Siege Battery of the Royal Garrison Artillery and include Battery log books, copies of Battery correspondence, a history of the Battery, photograph album, training materials, notes and engagement diaries.
Dates:
1896-1977.
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
"Field Marshal Earl Haig K T Letters 1920 to 1927".
Item
Identifier: Acc.9431
Scope and Contents
Contains 41 letters to James Curle with associated printed material and a photograph.
Dates:
circa 1920-circa 1927.
Letters, photographs and papers concerning the Malcolm and Douglas families.
File
Identifier: Acc.11800
Scope and Contents
Includes a genealogical record, 1882, of the Malcolm of Burnfoot family.
Dates:
circa 1800-1965.
Microfilm of photographs, films, notebooks and associated papers of Rev Dr Archibald Clive Irvine, relating to his military service and missionary work in Kenya.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.1577
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
Album, 1917, undated, of photographs of Blackpool, the voyage to South Africa with the RAMC, and wartime scenes in Cape Town and Durban (Acc.12016/1); Album, 1919-1922, of mission and family photographs taken in Tumutumu, Kenya, and in Britain (Acc.12016/5);Album entitled ‘Chogoria – the early days. The start to 12 October 1922’ (Acc.12016/6);Album entitled ‘Chogoria early days, 1922-1930’ (Acc.12016/7); Album...
Dates:
[1917-1996.]
Papers, 1882-1947 and undated, of Sir Edward L Durand, 1st Baronet, and his family.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.10838
Scope and Contents
Includes correspondence, 1787-1884 and undated, of the Percy and other related families.
Dates:
1787-1947 and undated.
Papers and correspondence of Douglas Charles Parker.
Series
Identifier: MSS.21551-21561
Scope and Contents
D C Parker was an able amateur musician, and a professional writer on music, both as critic (1919-1934) on the ‘Evening Times’ of Glasgow, and as the biographer of Georges Bizet, and a contributor to many musical periodicals. His main enthusiasms were for the music of Wagner, Elgar, the French composers of the late 19th century, and for opera in general. His correspondence extends from his early contacts with Massenet and Saint Saëns, through to modern conductors such as Colin Davis. His...
Dates:
1902-1970.
Papers of and relating to the artists Beatrice Huntington and William MacDonald.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.14369/1-39
Scope and Contents
Beatrice Huntington was born in 1889 in St. Andrews to Dr William Huntington, surgeon, and Charlotte Huntington, née Bowles, daughter of Joseph Bowles of Quebec City. She was educated in St Andrews before attending art schools in Paris and Munich between 1906-1911. She began exhibiting in 1916 and became an active member of the Dundee Art Society and the Society of Scottish Artists. Influenced by Modernist art styles, she experimented with Cubism in her portraits, including 'A Muleteer from...
Dates:
1864-2015.