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George Bryson, "Spain, what I saw of it during a Holiday Tour", illustrated with photographs.
Item
Identifier: Acc.6942
Dates:
circa 1881.
Glass negatives of and relating to the work of Charles d'Orville Pilkington Jackson.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.14039
Dates:
Circa 1935-1965.
Glass negatives, photographs and slides of World Mission and Unity Department, Church of Scotland.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.10904/1-52
Dates:
1900-1993, undated.
Glass plate photographs of the Antarctic by Herbert George Ponting.
File
Identifier: Acc.13594
Scope and Contents
Herbert George Ponting (1870–1935) was the official photographer of the British Antarctic Expedition of 1910-1913 commanded by Robert Falcon Scott (1868-1912). He produced some of the most iconic polar images. Some of his photographs were used to illustrate the expedition magazine The South Polar Times, volume III, produced April to October 1911. This was reissued by Smith, Elder and Co. in 1914, for which these nine photographic plates were produced.A The Terra Nova in pack ice,...
Dates:
1914.
Glass plates and other photographs of the family of George P Johnston.
File
Identifier: Acc.10829
Dates:
1904 and undated.
Glass slides of subjects including Ben Nevis Observatory, naval and maritime lifts and other manufactures, some by George Washington Wilson.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.10333
Dates:
circa 1880-1920.
Greetings card and letter of Mrs Fanny MacTaggart to Miss Margaret Morton.
File
Identifier: Acc.14201
Scope and Contents
The greetings card has a print of 'Setting Sun' by Sir William MacTaggart, Fanny's husband. With two portrait photographs of Miss Margaret Morton.
Margaret Morton trained at the Royal Infirmary, Edinburgh, qualifying as a physiotherapist in 1965. She worked at Gilmore Place, the Domiciliary Centre for Rehabilitation, where she met and treated Fanny MacTaggart. Her interests included animals, travel, and horse-riding.
Dates:
1980.
Gude Cause Archive.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.13293/1-240
Scope and Contents
Electronic archive, digital images, sound and video recordings, and related ephemera of the Gude Cause project, 2008-2010. The project’s main objective was to celebrate the centenary of the Women’s Social and Political Union procession which took place in Edinburgh on 10 October 1909. Furthermore, in the light of a report published before the 2007 Scottish Parliament Election, Gude Cause sought to reenergize women’s participation in Scottish political life.The archive charts the...
Dates:
2006-2010
Holograph manuscripts of Allan Ramsay.
Series
Identifier: MSS.804-805
Dates:
[1721, or after-1728, or after.]
Journal concerning hunting, shooting and fishing expeditions in Scotland, England and Wales.
Item
Identifier: Acc.10562
Scope and Contents
Includes photographs.
Dates:
1911-1925.
Journal of a caravan tour in the Scottish Highlands by Elsie Jollyman, illustrated with photographs.
Item
Identifier: MS.29499
Dates:
1909
Journal of `A few weeks among the Blue-bells of Scotland, memoranda of men, manners and mountains above the Tweed`
Collection
Identifier: Acc.13639
Scope and Contents
The author of this illustrated journal lived at Bedford Villa, Richmond Hill, Clifton, Bristol, and was probably Ada Margaret Leech, wife of Charles Octavius Harvey, Wine and Spirit Merchant, Bristol.The writer and `Charles` travelled from Bristol to Melrose by train and visited Abbotsford, Melrose Abbey and Dryburgh Abbey before leaving for Edinburgh. Queen Victoria had recently been in Edinburgh and there are numerous pasted in printed drawings of scenes of her visit. The...
Dates:
1886
Journal, with printed maps and photographs, by William Douglas of the firm of Douglas and Foulis.
File
Identifier: MS.10975
Scope and Contents
The journal records visits to West Sutherland including Handa Island, 1888, and to Ailsa Craig, with an account of the making of curling stones, 1889.
Dates:
1888-1889.
Journals, notebooks and other papers of Sir James Mann Wordie, polar explorer, mostly relating to his tours and expeditions.
Record Group
Identifier: Acc.12559/1-99
Scope and Contents
Journals, correspondence, notebooks, photographs, press-cuttings and related papers, 1903-1959, n.d., of and relating largely to the expeditions of polar exploration and scientific discovery, travel and mountaineering activities of Sir James Mann Wordie, Master of St John’s College, Cambridge (1889-1962).
Dates:
1865-1959.
Journals of Ernest James Harris, Bank Manager, Haddington, consisting largely of accounts of caravanning holidays in Scotland, England, Wales, and Europe but also of a motoring tour in North America.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.13360
Scope and Contents
Ernest James Harris spent his working life as a banker with the Royal Bank of Scotland. He was a branch manager in Leith and later for many years in Haddington. In the early 1970s, he represented the Bank in New York. The journals provide a detailed record of family holidays, generally by caravan, over more than thirty years. They are illustrated with pasted in specifications of caravans owned by the family, leaflets and plans of caravan sites visited, photographs, postcards,...
Dates:
1960-1985
Lady Lucinda Mackay Archive
Collection
Identifier: MSS.50707-50842
Scope and Contents
This collection reflects the personal life and artistic career of Lady Mackay (b.1941). The papers contain correspondence, sketchbooks and loose artworks, writing drafts and proofs, school records, personal and art-related photographs, family papers, and career-related ephemera.The collection has been arranged into five distinct series as follows:1. Correspondence of Lucinda Mackay (with friends, close acquaintances, painting subjects, patrons, other artists, and...
Dates:
1941-2022
Lecture notes and photographs on the life of Mary Scott, missionary.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.13406
Scope and Contents
Lecture notes and reminiscences by Mrs Martha Steedman, 2012, on Miss Mary Scott, missionary of Kalimpong and Sikkim. Page 4 of the notes was not received from the donor. The notes are accompanied by early 21st century photographs of the school with which Miss Scott was so heavily involved in establishing at Gangtok and its surrounding area.
Dates:
2012
Letter, 1832, of Thomas Carlyle to Allan Cunningham.
Item
Identifier: Acc.11477
Scope and Contents
Carlyle praises and analyses Cunningham`s poem "The Maid of Elvar" and obliquely criticises the poetry of Sir Walter Scott.
Includes engravings and photographs of Carlyle, Carlyle-related locations, and one of Jane Welsh Carlyle inscribed by Thomas Carlyle in 1873.
Dates:
1832-1873.
Letter, 1841, of the Reverend John Hamilton.
Item
Identifier: Acc.6162
Scope and Contents
Concerning Wesleyan influence in Parliament.
With photograph, undated, of Hamilton.
Dates:
1841 and undated.
Letter, 1860, recommending the emigration of James Marshall (1822 - 1867) to New Zealand, with family history notes and copies of photographs, 2011.
File
Identifier: Acc.13283
Dates:
1860-2011
Letter, 1864, of Thomas Carlyle to an unknown recipient and an undated letter of Jane Welsh Carlyle to Charlotte Froude, wife of James Anthony Froude, with a signed photograph, 1874, of Thomas Carlyle.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.13108
Dates:
1864, 1874, and undated.
Letter, 1880, postcards, 1910-1911 and photographs, undated, of the Hill family, Galashiels.
File
Identifier: Acc.11215
Dates:
1880-1911 and undated.
Letter and Christmas cards of Edith Simon to Dr Joan Basden, with two photographs.
Series
Identifier: Acc.14192
Scope and Contents
Edith Simon [Mrs Edith Reeve] and Dr Joan Basden were housed at Mortonhall House, Edinburgh, with their husbands, Dr Eric Reeve and Eric Basden, who were attached to the National Animal Breeding and Genetics Research Organisation in the Institute of Animal Genetics at the University of Edinburgh. The folder contains five 'paper-cut' Christmas cards, 1967-1969 and n.d., handmade by Edith Simon for Joan Basden and her family; letter, 30 August 1957, on the occasion of Joan and Eric...
Dates:
1948-1969.
Letter of Duncan MacMillan, Auchnafad, Kintyre, and his wife Ann Ferguson (Anna NicFhearghais), Gaelic poet, to their daughter and son-in-law in Australia.
File
Identifier: Acc.14333
Content Description
Letter written by Duncan MacMillan, farmer in Achnafad, Kintyre, and husband of Ann Ferguson (Ann NicFhearghais), Gaelic poet. It is dated "Auchnafad May 26th 1856", and signed "Duncan and Ann Mac Millan". The letter is addressed to their daughter Margaret and son-in-law Angus Gilchrist, Australia, and contains family news. 4 pages.With three photographs showing:
(i) a modern memorial stone for Duncan and Ann, erected by their grandson Hugh McMillan in Killean graveyard; ...
Dates:
1856.
Letter of G Johnston enclosing a photograph of his father, George P Johnston.
Item
Identifier: Acc.10828
Dates:
1938.